Hypothesis A/ Hypothesis B

by Gerdts, Donna B.; Moore, John C.; Polinsky, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780262633567
• ISBN10: 0262633566
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-29
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by the work of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as the founder (with Paul Postal) of Relational Grammar, but he has also made contributions to areas ranging from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology. Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B (the title evokes Perlmutter's characteristic style of linguistic argumentation) offers twenty-three essays by Perlmutter's colleagues and former students. Many of the contributions deal with the study of the world's languages (including Indo-European languages, sign language, and languages of the Americas), reflecting the influence of Perlmutter's cross-linguistic research and meticulous analysis of empirical data. Other topics include grammatical relations and their mapping; unaccusatives, impersonals, and the like; complex verbs, complex clauses, and Wh-constructions; and the nature of sign language. Perlmutter, currently Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, and still actively engaged in the field, opens the volume with the illuminating and entertaining essay, "My Path in Linguistics." Contributors: Judith Aissen, Mark Aronoff, Leonard H. Babby, Nicoleta Bateman, J. Albert Bickford, Sandra Chung, William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky, Katarzyna Dziwirek, Patrick Farrell, Donald G. Frantz, Donna B. Gerdts, Alice C. Harris, Brian D. Joseph, Geraldine Legendre, Philip S. LeSourd, Joan Maling, Stephen A. Marlett, Diane Lillo-Martin, James McCloskey, Richard P. Meier, Irit Meir, John C. Moore, Carol A. Padden, Maria Polinsky, Eduardo P. Raposo, Richard A. Rhodes, Wendy Sandler, Paul Smolensky, Annie Zaenen Current Studies in Linguistics 49

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
My Path in Linguistics	p. xvii
Depictives and Serialization in Tzotzil	p. 1
Prolegomenon to Any Future Typology of Impersonal Sentences	p. 19
Romanian as a Two-Gender Language	p. 41
1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology	p. 79
Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro	p. 91
On the Existence (and Distribution) of Sentential Subjects	p. 111
Syntax and Semantics of Polish Emotion Verbs	p. 129
A Corpus Study
Term Relations and Relational Hierarchies	p. 151
Constraints on Verb Stem Stacking in Southern Tiwa	p. 173
Three Doubling Constructions in Halkomelem	p. 183
Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking	p. 203
Implications for Innateness
Underlying and Surface Grammatical Relations in Greek consider Sentences	p. 221
French Inchoatives and the Unaccusativity Hypothesis	p. 229
On the Analytic Expression of Predicates in Meskwaki	p. 247
Unpassives of Unaccusatives	p. 275
Semantic and Syntactic Subcategorization in Seri	p. 293
Recipients and Addressees
Impersonals in Irish and Beyond	p. 323
Does Spatial Make It Special?	p. 345
On the Grammar of Pointing Signs in American Sign Language
Object-Controlled Restructuring in Spanish	p. 361
Against All Expectations	p. 383
Encoding Subjects and Objects in a New Language
Clitic Placement in Romance	p. 401
A Phase-Theoretic Approach
Missing Obliques	p. 427
Some Anomalies in Ojibwe Syntax
Modeling the Mapping from ôConceptual Structureö to Syntax	p. 457
Publications of David M. Perlmutter	p. 475
Author Index	p. 481
Subject Index	p. 487
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