Papers by Martin Everaert
Constraints on the phrase structural properties of English phrasal lexical items
PASE papers in language studies: Proceedings of the …, 2000
Theory and data in idiom research
CLS32: the Parasession on Theory and Data in …, 1996
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2021
Munda languages (Santali, Ho, and Mundari) in which the Subject Agreement Marker (SAM) in oblique... more Munda languages (Santali, Ho, and Mundari) in which the Subject Agreement Marker (SAM) in oblique object constructions occurs not in its canonical position, rather it occurs in the position earmarked for object agreement, in spite of the fact that the predicate may be [-transitive]. We label this phenomenon as Agreement Reversal.
We argue that, with one exception, such reversal takes place not due to syntactic principles governing agreement alone, but due to thematic/ functional criteria because of which the nature of the predicate in a non-nominative subject construction triggers such reversal.
Parent's Language Use and Language Attitude towards Languages in Jakarta as Part of the Language Acquisition Process
Lexical Semantics, Syntax, and Event Structure, 2010
In this paper I will address the question how idioms are lexically represented in a generative th... more In this paper I will address the question how idioms are lexically represented in a generative theory, and the consequences that this has for a theory about the computational system. Answering such a question inevitably means that we have to reflect on what idioms are in a study of language which understands language to be a system of conditions deriving from the human biological endowment, an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with presented experience. Ultimately this requires one to be explicit about the concept of a lexicon and its properties, that could figure in such a study of language. Section 2 explains in detail that the notion ‘idiom’ is not straightforward. Section 3 will look into ‘non-compositionality’ as a defining feature of idioms. Sections 2 and 3 will make clear that the only possible interpretation of what can be taken as ‘idioms’ encompasses all formulaic expressions, including sayings, proverbs, collocations and whatever has been suggested in taxonomic approaches. My interpretation of idiom is close to what is called ‘a multiword expression’ in computational linguistics, a combination of words that have linguistic properties not predictable from the individual components or the normal way they are combined. For that reason, those properties must be stipulated in the lexicon. Section 4 discusses some of the possible interpretations of the notion lexicon in generative theorizing, allowing me to specify my ideas about the lexical encoding of idioms in section 5.
The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory
The Blackwell Companion to Syntax
... 407 30 Gerundive Nominalizations: Gary Milsark 436 31 Grammatical Verbs (with Special Referen... more ... 407 30 Gerundive Nominalizations: Gary Milsark 436 31 Grammatical Verbs (with Special Reference to Light Verbs): Tara Mohanan 459 32 Honorifics: Nobuko Hasegawa 493 33 Icelandic Logophoric Anaphora: Eric Reuland 544 34 Implicit Arguments: Rajesh Bhatt and ...
The Unaccusativity Puzzle
Verbal and Nominal Reciprocals in South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology
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... V.2. Long-distance binding - A composite anaphor in South Asian languages (except Marathi) do... more ... V.2. Long-distance binding - A composite anaphor in South Asian languages (except Marathi) does not permit long-distance binding while a simplex anaphor does, provided the embedded clause does not contain a verbal reflexive. ...
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2015
At a very young age children living in Jakarta use both Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia and Bahasa I... more At a very young age children living in Jakarta use both Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia and Bahasa Indonesia. The children's first and most used language is Colloquial Jakarta Indonesia. In the formal school setting Bahasa Indonesia is frequently used and stimulated on a daily basis, and the learning process of Bahasa Indonesia is accelerated. The question addressed in this article is: how do these children choose from their repertoire of language varieties at this stage of language development? In our study 63 children (aged three to five), were interviewed in a formal and an informal situation in three playgroups and kindergartens. This study shows that even in the preschool setting, young children are already developing their sociolinguistic competence, knowing when to choose which language variety.
The Study of Bound Anaphora in the Generative Research tradition
this paper it is not possible to give a detailed overview of the empirical coverage of the framew... more this paper it is not possible to give a detailed overview of the empirical coverage of the framework. We will simply list some more, or less, well-known facts that find a straightforward explanation in the Reflexivity framework (Reinhart & Reuland 1995; Anagnostopoulou & Everaert 1995, 1997; Lidz 1995; Philip & Coopmans 1996)
Asymmetries in Binding : Configurational and Thematic Effects on Anaphora
This paper investigates several syntactic aspects of anaphors (reflexives and reciprocals) in the... more This paper investigates several syntactic aspects of anaphors (reflexives and reciprocals) in the Munda languages Santali, Mundari, and Ho. We intend to show that verbal reflexivization is an indigenous device, and that nominal reflexivization is a form calqued from neighbouring Indo-Aryan languages. The verbal reflexive device performs other functions, including detransitivizing marker, passive marker, and self-benefactive marker. The nominal reflexive is optional when the verbal reflexive is present, and obligatory when the verbal reflexive is absent. Long-Distance Binding is not permitted when the anaphor occurs in a subcategorized position. Reciprocity is achieved through the infixation of a morpheme -pV- in the main verb, where the vowel V in -pV- harmonizes with the nucleus of the main verb's first syllable. Some verbs have a special form when the verbal anaphor occurs.
The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface
Series editors' preface Introduction 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic conse... more Series editors' preface Introduction 1. A Semantics for unaccusatives and its syntactic consequences 2. Unaccusativity as telicity checking 3. Unergative adjectives and psych-verbs 4. Voice morphology in the causative-inchoative alternation: evidence for a non unified structural analysis of unaccusatives 5. Unaccusative syntax and verbal alternations 6. Against an unaccusative analysis of reflexives 7. Unaccusatives and anticausatives in German 8. Syntactic unaccusativity in Russian 9. Gradience at the lexicon-syntax interface: evidence from auxiliary selection 10. Unaccusativity in Saramaccan: the syntax of resultatives 11. The grammar machine 12. Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look Index
Introduction: Advances in Morphology
Introducing diri: Understanding the Role of diri as a Reflexivizer
Oceanic Linguistics
Kokborok and the simple-complex reflexive distinction
Studies in Language
This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will l... more This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will look more specifically how this sheds light on the theories of reflexivization. Kokborok, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tripura, a state in the North-East of India, has two reflexives: sak sak ‘self self’ and sak baithaŋ ‘self self’. The form sak sak ‘self self’ conforms to Principle A of classic Binding Theory, blocking long-distance binding, but this does not hold true for sak baithaŋ allowing non-local binding. It is a well-established fact that some reflexives allow non-local binding, but it is generally assumed that this phenomenon is limited to a certain type of reflexive, morpho-syntactically ‘simple reflexives.’ The so-called ‘complex reflexives’ generally bar non-local binding, and the Kokborok reflexive sak baithaŋ seems an exception to that. This paper explores the uniqueness involved in the nature of anaphoric binding in Kokborok.
Kokborok and the simple-complex reflexive distinction
Studies in Language, 2020
This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will l... more This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the binding strategies in Kokborok and we will look more specifically how this sheds light on the theories of reflexivization. Kokborok, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tripura, a state in the NorthEast of India, has two reflexives: sak sak 'self self ' and sak baithaŋ 'self self '. The form sak sak 'self self ' conforms to Principle A of classic Binding Theory, blocking long-distance binding, but this does not hold true for sak baithaŋ allowing non-local binding. It is a well-established fact that some reflexives allow non-local binding, but it is generally assumed that this phenomenon is limited to a certain type of reflexive, morpho-syntactically 'simple reflexives. ' The so-called 'complex reflexives' generally bar non-local binding, and the Kokborok reflexive sak baithaŋ seems an exception to that. This paper explores the uniqueness involved in the nature of anaphoric binding in Kokborok.
Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
Linguistic Inquiry
It is generally assumed that Mandarin Chinese has a complex anaphor ta ziji, which is locally bou... more It is generally assumed that Mandarin Chinese has a complex anaphor ta ziji, which is locally bound (Condition A of the canonical binding theory; Chomsky 1981), and another anaphor, ziji, which can be locally and nonlocally bound, as in (1). (1) [Zhangsan i renwei [Lisi j zhidao [Wangwu k xihuan Zhangsan think Lisi know Wangwu like ziji i/j/k ]]]. self 'Zhangsan thinks that Lisi knows that Wangwu likes him/ himself.' Ziji's internal structure is subject to debate. The dominant position is that it is simplex and that this property enables its nonlocal binding (
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Papers by Martin Everaert
We argue that, with one exception, such reversal takes place not due to syntactic principles governing agreement alone, but due to thematic/ functional criteria because of which the nature of the predicate in a non-nominative subject construction triggers such reversal.