Diego Gabriel Krivochen
Biographic Data
| ID | 7337710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego Gabriel Krivochen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Krivochen |
| SIGNATURE | KRIVOCHEN D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6145-1057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Different and Proud of It
This paper presents an analysis of sentences featuring superficial coordinations of unlike categories in English, such as John is a Republican and proud of it (NP and AP) and Pat is stupid and a liar (AP and NP). We argue that, despite the fact that examples like these have been grouped in the literature on coordination of unlikes, there are significant syntactic differences that justify distinguishing between them representationally and derivati…
The architecture of agreement
In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural and artificial languages provides key insights into the ubiquity of agreement. By grammar inference , we mean the discovery of a procedure that (i) determines string well-formedness on the basis of exposure to unannotated expressions of a language; and (ii) allows for the construction of stru…
Epp
The E(xtended) P(rojection) P(rinciple) (specifically, in its guise as a movement-triggering feature in designated syntactic heads), has been a thorn in the Minimalist side since the mid-1990s. Recently, in the context of attempts to reduce syntactic mechanisms to their minimal expression, the generative operation Merge has been defined as unordered set formation (“Simplest Merge”), and the EPP has been pronounced dead in favour of conditions ove…
Constituents, arrays, and trees
Generative syntax was built on the foundations of Immediate Constituent (IC) analysis, and IC methods and heuristics were an important tool in the early days of the generative enterprise. However, developments in the theory entailed a departure from some fundamental IC assumptions: we will argue that structural descriptions in contemporary generative grammar (transformational and non-transformational) define not constituents, but strictly ordered…
Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces
Recent work on structure building and mapping in Minimalist syntax makes explicit reference to workspaces ; however, it is still an underexplored area. This paper is an attempt to (a) analyse the notion of ‘workspace’ as used in current Minimalist syntax and (b) provide a definition of ‘syntactic workspace’ that can help us capture interesting empirical phenomena. In doing this, we confront set-theoretic and graph-theoretic approaches to syntacti…
Sobre La Sintaxis De Las Oraciones De Relativo
En este trabajo examinaremos análisis existentes de las oraciones de relativo (principalmente restrictivas), y propondremos un análisis para las relativas españolas desde la perspectiva de una gramática de adjunción (TAG) lexicalizada. Presentaremos un panorama de las principales propuestas existentes y examinaremos las preguntas a las que todo análisis de las oraciones de relativo debe responder. La propuesta que desarrollamos aquí sintetiza las…
On Coordination and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Verb Constructions
In this work we analyse some aspects of the interaction between coordination and clitic climbing in Spanish sentences with auxiliary verbs. We aim at shedding light on three kinds of structures, or ‘scenarios’: (1) those in which we find coordinated auxiliaries taking a single lexical verb as complement ( Puede y debe hacerlo ); (2) those in which a single auxiliary takes coordinated lexical verbs as complement ( estás molestándonos y mirándonos …
Lexicalised Locality
Contemporary generative grammar assumes that syntactic structure is best described in terms of sets, and that locality conditions, as well as cross-linguistic variation, is determined at the level of designated functional heads. Syntactic operations (merge, MERGE, etc.) build a structure by deriving sets from lexical atoms and recursively (and monotonically) yielding sets of sets. Additional restrictions over the format of structural descriptions…
NEG lowering into quantifiers
This paper is concerned with the derivation of English sentences in which negation (NEG) surfaces in a matrix clause but is interpreted as if it were in an embedded clause. The cases we are interested in allow NEG to be interpreted as having scope over a quantified subject NP in the embedded clause or over the verbal predicate in the same embedded clause. Syntactic approaches to this phenomenon have proposed a rule of NEG-raising which proceeds u…
I Like This Analysis, but I Don’t Think Every Linguist Will
In this article I consider some recent objections raised against the syntactic treatment of negation in English multiclausal structures, in particular what has been called NEG-raising. I argue that the objections based on pronominalisation and ellipsis presented in the recent literature do pose a problem for syntactic accounts of the mechanisms of so-called NOT-transportation that rely on a rule of leftwards movement, as is customary in generativ…
Iconicity in syntax and the architecture of linguistic theory
Linguistic iconicity has been studied since ancient times (e.g., Plato’s Cratylus , see Cooper & Hutchinson 1997 ). Within modern grammatical description, this notion was mostly developed by Jakobson and Benveniste; nowadays, iconicity in language is even being experimentally tested (e.g., Blasi et al. 2016 ; Diatka & Milička 2017 ). However, most studies on linguistic iconicity pertain to prosody, sound symbolism, or morphology; syntactic iconic…
On trans-derivational operations
On non-progressive being
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On Phrase Structure building and labeling algorithms
This paper argues that the theory of phrase structure a certain linguistic approach assumes implies taking a stance on the formal nature of the computational procedures that generate that phrase structure. We will proceed by critically evaluating theories of phrase structure and labeling -which implies taking a structure as a unit for the purposes of further computations-, and building on and opposing to the proposals we review, we will claim tha…
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On Phrase Structure building and labeling algorithms
This paper argues that the theory of phrase structure a certain linguistic approach assumes implies taking a stance on the formal nature of the computational procedures that generate that phrase structure. We will proceed by critically evaluating theories of phrase structure and labeling -which implies taking a structure as a unit for the purposes of further computations-, and building on and opposing to the proposals we review, we will claim tha…
On non-progressive being
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On trans-derivational operations
Iconicity in syntax and the architecture of linguistic theory
Linguistic iconicity has been studied since ancient times (e.g., Plato’s Cratylus , see Cooper & Hutchinson 1997 ). Within modern grammatical description, this notion was mostly developed by Jakobson and Benveniste; nowadays, iconicity in language is even being experimentally tested (e.g., Blasi et al. 2016 ; Diatka & Milička 2017 ). However, most studies on linguistic iconicity pertain to prosody, sound symbolism, or morphology; syntactic iconic…
Lexicalised Locality
Contemporary generative grammar assumes that syntactic structure is best described in terms of sets, and that locality conditions, as well as cross-linguistic variation, is determined at the level of designated functional heads. Syntactic operations (merge, MERGE, etc.) build a structure by deriving sets from lexical atoms and recursively (and monotonically) yielding sets of sets. Additional restrictions over the format of structural descriptions…
NEG lowering into quantifiers
This paper is concerned with the derivation of English sentences in which negation (NEG) surfaces in a matrix clause but is interpreted as if it were in an embedded clause. The cases we are interested in allow NEG to be interpreted as having scope over a quantified subject NP in the embedded clause or over the verbal predicate in the same embedded clause. Syntactic approaches to this phenomenon have proposed a rule of NEG-raising which proceeds u…
I Like This Analysis, but I Don’t Think Every Linguist Will
In this article I consider some recent objections raised against the syntactic treatment of negation in English multiclausal structures, in particular what has been called NEG-raising. I argue that the objections based on pronominalisation and ellipsis presented in the recent literature do pose a problem for syntactic accounts of the mechanisms of so-called NOT-transportation that rely on a rule of leftwards movement, as is customary in generativ…
Sobre La Sintaxis De Las Oraciones De Relativo
En este trabajo examinaremos análisis existentes de las oraciones de relativo (principalmente restrictivas), y propondremos un análisis para las relativas españolas desde la perspectiva de una gramática de adjunción (TAG) lexicalizada. Presentaremos un panorama de las principales propuestas existentes y examinaremos las preguntas a las que todo análisis de las oraciones de relativo debe responder. La propuesta que desarrollamos aquí sintetiza las…
On Coordination and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Verb Constructions
In this work we analyse some aspects of the interaction between coordination and clitic climbing in Spanish sentences with auxiliary verbs. We aim at shedding light on three kinds of structures, or ‘scenarios’: (1) those in which we find coordinated auxiliaries taking a single lexical verb as complement ( Puede y debe hacerlo ); (2) those in which a single auxiliary takes coordinated lexical verbs as complement ( estás molestándonos y mirándonos …
Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces
Recent work on structure building and mapping in Minimalist syntax makes explicit reference to workspaces ; however, it is still an underexplored area. This paper is an attempt to (a) analyse the notion of ‘workspace’ as used in current Minimalist syntax and (b) provide a definition of ‘syntactic workspace’ that can help us capture interesting empirical phenomena. In doing this, we confront set-theoretic and graph-theoretic approaches to syntacti…
Constituents, arrays, and trees
Generative syntax was built on the foundations of Immediate Constituent (IC) analysis, and IC methods and heuristics were an important tool in the early days of the generative enterprise. However, developments in the theory entailed a departure from some fundamental IC assumptions: we will argue that structural descriptions in contemporary generative grammar (transformational and non-transformational) define not constituents, but strictly ordered…
Epp
The E(xtended) P(rojection) P(rinciple) (specifically, in its guise as a movement-triggering feature in designated syntactic heads), has been a thorn in the Minimalist side since the mid-1990s. Recently, in the context of attempts to reduce syntactic mechanisms to their minimal expression, the generative operation Merge has been defined as unordered set formation (“Simplest Merge”), and the EPP has been pronounced dead in favour of conditions ove…
Different and Proud of It
This paper presents an analysis of sentences featuring superficial coordinations of unlike categories in English, such as John is a Republican and proud of it (NP and AP) and Pat is stupid and a liar (AP and NP). We argue that, despite the fact that examples like these have been grouped in the literature on coordination of unlikes, there are significant syntactic differences that justify distinguishing between them representationally and derivati…
The architecture of agreement
In this paper we raise the question “why is agreement so common across natural languages?”. We will argue that the challenge of grammar inference in natural and artificial languages provides key insights into the ubiquity of agreement. By grammar inference , we mean the discovery of a procedure that (i) determines string well-formedness on the basis of exposure to unannotated expressions of a language; and (ii) allows for the construction of stru…
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