Daniel Harbour
Biographic Data
| ID | 794839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Harbour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Harbour |
| SIGNATURE | HARBOUR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6335-0097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
CAP in hand, Editor-in-Chief
Discontinuous agreement
Nine characteristics of discontinuous agreement are shown to flow from a syntax that deals in whole phi structures and a linearisation algorithm that renders these discontinuous when conditions converge. This approach is demonstrably superior to reliance solely on syntax, morphology, or the lexicon, outperforming these across a range morphological and syntactic data from Afroasiatic languages and those of Australia and Papua New Guinea
Sende Meets a White Man
When They Imprisoned Our Chiefs
Massacre at Cutthroat Gap
Frybread at the Fair
The Life of Satanta
Poolant's Killing
Captive Woman
New Clothes for Church
Wagon Attack
Christmas Encampment
Letter of May 5, 1963, to Charlie Redbird
Grandmother and the Oranges
Goodnight Show in Amarillo, Texas
Running Away From School
Sende Tricks A White Man
A Curious Car Accident
The Kiowa Migration to the North
Incident at a Kiowa Beef-Butchering
Conjunction resolution is nonsyntactic, say paucals
Conjunctions of paucals trigger either paucal or plural agreement. The choice is semantic, not syntactic, and therefore argues against syntactic feature calculuses for conjunction resolution
Frankenduals
Frankenduals, that is, duals composed (as in Hopi) of a 'singular' and a 'plural' morpheme, display a consistent asymmetry. A new typological study shows that the element closer to the nominal is sensitive to singularity, whereas the one sensitive to plurality is more peripheral. This pattern impacts the theory of morphology (dual featurally crosscuts singular and plural), morphosemantics (number features are sensitive to order of composition), a…
Impossible Persons
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical…
Parameters of Poor Pronoun Systems
The world’s smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (a) author-nonauthor, (b) participant-nonparticipant, (c) singular-nonsingular. This supports the view that features are mutually independent parameters ( Harbour 2011a , 2014a , 2016 ), but is problematic for Koeneman and Zeijlstra’s (2014) reworking of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis, which is predicated on the claim that (a)–(c) are universally obligatory. The facts …
Poor pronoun systems and what they teach us
The world's smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (i) author-nonauthor, (ii) participant-nonparticipant, (iii) singular-nonsingular. This supports the view that features are mutually independent parameters (Harbour 2011a, 2014a, 2014b), but is problematic for Koeneman and Zeijlstra's (2014) recent reworking of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis, which is predicated on the claim that (i)-(iii) are universally obligatory
Syntax and Syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint
The Person Case Constraint is frequently concomitant with Case Syncretism. We provide a syntax-driven account of both phenomena that relies on the dual role thatφ-features play in selecting and in Case-licensing argument DPs. The account differs from other syntactic approaches to the PCC in the role it affords the applicative head in the Case system and in the attention it pays to the syntactic structures that feed morphology and therefore induce…
Paucity, abundance, and the theory of number
Approximative numbers, like paucal and greater plural, can be characterized in terms of a feature, [±additive], concerned with additive closure. The two parameters affecting this feature (whether it is active and whether + and − values may cooccur) also affect the two features that generate nonapproximative numbers. All three features are shown to be derivative of concepts in the literature on aspect and telicity, to have a straightforwardly comp…
Valence and Atomic Number
The semantic basis and morphosyntactic reflexes of Kiowa-Tanoan noun classification are perspicuously captured in a system with three bivalent number features: [±singular], [±augmented], [±group]. Privative analyses of the same facts require, inter alia, features without semantic motivation, syntactic mechanisms that violate Inclusivity, and feature annotation reminiscent of bivalence. The semantic atoms of number are, therefore, bivalent
Descriptive and explanatory markedness
On homophony and methodology in morphology
The Kiowa Case for Feature Insertion
Against PersonP
Emphatic verb doubling, developed as a diagnostic of T-to-C movement in Classical Hebrew, demonstrates that discontinuous agreement is not a consequence of movement to between hypothetical Person and Number phrases
Klivaj predika, or predicate clefts in Haitian
Poor pronoun systems and what they teach us
The world's smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (i) author-nonauthor, (ii) participant-nonparticipant, (iii) singular-nonsingular. This supports the view that features are mutually independent parameters (Harbour 2011a, 2014a, 2014b), but is problematic for Koeneman and Zeijlstra's (2014) recent reworking of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis, which is predicated on the claim that (i)-(iii) are universally obligatory
The Kiowa Case for Feature Insertion
Syntax and Syncretisms of the Person Case Constraint
The Person Case Constraint is frequently concomitant with Case Syncretism. We provide a syntax-driven account of both phenomena that relies on the dual role thatφ-features play in selecting and in Case-licensing argument DPs. The account differs from other syntactic approaches to the PCC in the role it affords the applicative head in the Case system and in the attention it pays to the syntactic structures that feed morphology and therefore induce…
Against PersonP
Emphatic verb doubling, developed as a diagnostic of T-to-C movement in Classical Hebrew, demonstrates that discontinuous agreement is not a consequence of movement to between hypothetical Person and Number phrases
Phi Theory
Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields. This volume is the first to attempt to bring together these different strands and styles of research. It presents the core questions, major results, and new directions of …
Phi-Theory
On homophony and methodology in morphology
Klivaj predika, or predicate clefts in Haitian
Mythomania? Methods and morals from ‘The Myth of Language Universals’
Descriptive and explanatory markedness
Valence and Atomic Number
The semantic basis and morphosyntactic reflexes of Kiowa-Tanoan noun classification are perspicuously captured in a system with three bivalent number features: [±singular], [±augmented], [±group]. Privative analyses of the same facts require, inter alia, features without semantic motivation, syntactic mechanisms that violate Inclusivity, and feature annotation reminiscent of bivalence. The semantic atoms of number are, therefore, bivalent
Information Structure, Discourse Structure, and Noun Phrase Position in Kiowa
The Kiowa clause may be divided, on the basis of syntactic theory, into three distinct domains. Although Kiowa is a canonical “free word order” language, we demonstrate that use of these domains is strongly constrained by information-structural and, in some cases, discourse-structural and discourse-pragmatic properties. We analyze these factors, discuss different methodological options for such research, and examine the word order properties of a…
Paucity, abundance, and the theory of number
Paucity, abundance, and the theory of number
Approximative numbers, like paucal and greater plural, can be characterized in terms of a feature, [±additive], concerned with additive closure. The two parameters affecting this feature (whether it is active and whether + and − values may cooccur) also affect the two features that generate nonapproximative numbers. All three features are shown to be derivative of concepts in the literature on aspect and telicity, to have a straightforwardly comp…
Poor pronoun systems and what they teach us
The world's smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (i) author-nonauthor, (ii) participant-nonparticipant, (iii) singular-nonsingular. This supports the view that features are mutually independent parameters (Harbour 2011a, 2014a, 2014b), but is problematic for Koeneman and Zeijlstra's (2014) recent reworking of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis, which is predicated on the claim that (i)-(iii) are universally obligatory
Impossible Persons
A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. Impossible Persons, Daniel Harbour's comprehensive and groundbreaking formal theory of grammatical person, upends understanding of a universal and ubiquitous grammatical category. Breaking with much past work, Harbour establishes three core theses, one empirical, one theoretical, and one metatheoretical…
Parameters of Poor Pronoun Systems
The world’s smallest pronoun systems can eschew any of the following contrasts: (a) author-nonauthor, (b) participant-nonparticipant, (c) singular-nonsingular. This supports the view that features are mutually independent parameters ( Harbour 2011a , 2014a , 2016 ), but is problematic for Koeneman and Zeijlstra’s (2014) reworking of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis, which is predicated on the claim that (a)–(c) are universally obligatory. The facts …
Conjunction resolution is nonsyntactic, say paucals
Conjunctions of paucals trigger either paucal or plural agreement. The choice is semantic, not syntactic, and therefore argues against syntactic feature calculuses for conjunction resolution
Frankenduals
Frankenduals, that is, duals composed (as in Hopi) of a 'singular' and a 'plural' morpheme, display a consistent asymmetry. A new typological study shows that the element closer to the nominal is sensitive to singularity, whereas the one sensitive to plurality is more peripheral. This pattern impacts the theory of morphology (dual featurally crosscuts singular and plural), morphosemantics (number features are sensitive to order of composition), a…
Sende Meets a White Man
When They Imprisoned Our Chiefs
Massacre at Cutthroat Gap
Frybread at the Fair
The Life of Satanta
Poolant's Killing
Captive Woman
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