Andrew Nevins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 145123 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Nevins |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Nevins |
| FIRMA | NEVINS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5318-5596 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 352 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Distributed agreement with conjoined subjects and objects in Zulu
A great deal of work over the last two decades has explored strategies of agreement with coordinate structures whose DP-conjuncts have different φ -feature specifications. However, most of these studies have focused on agreement with conjoined subjects. We investigated verbal agreement with conjoined DPs in the Bantu language Zulu, in which object-DPs optionally agree with the verb; this allowed us to compare agreement with conjoined subjects and…
Análise do sistema fonológico do conjunto de haptices usado na comunicação de pessoas com surdocegueira no Brasil
O presente artigo desenvolve uma análise fonológica do sistema de Comunicação Social Háptica usado no Brasil (abreviado aqui como CSHB), compilado por Canuto et al. (2019). Fundamentados pelos textos de Lahtinen (2008), Vilela (2018, 2022) e Volpato (2023), entre outros, a análise busca identificar quais parâmetros da fonologia tátil (os haptemas) são mais usados, em quais combinações e com quais fatores de percepção e contexto de uso, condiciona…
O cenário da surdocegueira, formas linguísticas e a comunicação social háptica
Apresentação à Revista Linguística v.21 n.1
Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers
In this article, we claim that syntactic objects undergoing ellipsis can be targeted by both narrow syntactic and PF operations. We base this conclusion on experimental evidence from the interaction between single conjunct agreement and verb-echo answers in South Slavic, which we show to be derived via verb-stranding VP ellipsis. Adopting the view that Vocabulary Insertion replaces Q-variables on lexical heads (Halle 1991) and ellipsis is a synta…
Factors associated with HIV Testing within the National Health Interview Survey (2006-2018)
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t
We discuss cases of salvation and non-salvation by deletion in the domain of lexical gaps, and distinguish two types of defectiveness: (a) defectiveness that can be saved by PF deletion, which we take to signal the lack of an eligible allomorph for certain environments within a language, and (b) defectiveness that cannot be saved by PF deletion, which we take to signal the lack of a proper alloseme for a given environment. With ellipsis modeled a…
Comparing Iconicity Trade-Offs in Cena and Libras during a Sign Language Production Task
Although classifier constructions generally aim for highly iconic depictions, like any other part of language they may be constrained by phonology. We compare utterances containing motion events between signers of Cena, an emerging rural sign language in Brazil, and Libras, the national sign language of Brazil, to investigate whether a difference in time-depth-a relevant factor in phonological reorganisation-influences trade-offs involving iconic…
Observações sobre a estrutura linguística da Cena
Este texto apresenta uma descrição preliminar da estrutura linguística da Cena, uma língua de sinais emergente do interior do Piauí, falada/sinalizada por aproximadamente 30 pessoas. É classificada como uma língua de sinais compartilhada porque também é utilizada por pessoas ouvintes. A Cena é uma das línguas minoritárias do Brasil e é uma língua compartilhada por surdos e ouvintes da localidade Várzea Queimada. Descrevemos aspectos do léxico, fo…
Elided Clausal Conjunction Is Not the Only Source of Closest-Conjunct Agreement
A recurring hypothesis about the agreement phenomena generalized as closest-conjunct agreement takes this pattern to result from reduced clausal conjunction, simply displaying the agreement of the verb with the nonconjoined subject of the clause whose content survives ellipsis (Aoun, Benmamoun & Sportiche 1994, 1999; see also Wilder 1997). Closest-conjunct agreement is the dominant agreement pattern in the South Slavic languages Slovenian and Bos…
Maxakalí has suppletion, numerals and associatives but no plurals
The Maxakalí language lacks additive plurals (akin to dog-s) on nouns, but has associative plurals, and a large set of suppletive verbs that indicate whether the internal argument is plural or not. Although it has no plural marking, Maxakalí distinguishes between count nouns and mass nouns. The former can be followed by numerals, while the latter must be coerced or occur with container words. Only count nouns can be distinguished between singular…
Domains and Prominence in Nasal Harmonization of Maxakalí Loanwords
We examine the patterns of loanword adaptation in Maxakalí, a Macro-Jê language of Brazil, in importing loans from Brazilian Portuguese, with respect to the introduction of nasality and nasal harmony, based on a corpus of 18 speakers. Employing MaxEnt modeling of quantitative trends enabled the comparison and analysis of certain recurrent trends, even if not exceptionless, and the potentially additive effects of their interaction. The results rev…
Pesquisas sobre línguas de sinais
Apresentação à Revista Linguíʃtica v.16, n.3
Introduction
This special issue includes twelve papers that consider roots to be a unit of lexical structure that is distinct from the stem, word, lexeme or morpheme.The assumption common to all of the papers is that roots are terminals in morphosyntactic structure.Given these assumptions, the overarching topic of this volume is the way in which roots interact with their morphosyntactic environment.We have grouped the papers in this collection into four thema…
Closest Conjunct Agreement
Closest conjunct agreement is of great theoretical interest in terms of what it reveals about the structure of coordination; the locality of agreement relations; and the interaction between syntax, semantics, and morphology in the expression of agreement. We highlight recent approaches to the phenomenon, including typologically diverse case studies and experimentally elicited results, and point out crystallized generalizations as well as directio…
On this and other worlds
Review ofSTENZEL, Kristine; FRANCHETTO, Bruna. On this and other worlds: voices from Amazonia. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017
Recursion across Domains
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Prenasalized and postoralized consonants
Beware Occam's Syntactic Razor
Harris and Halle (2005) present a framework (Generalized Reduplication) that unites the treatment of phonological reduplication and metathesis with similar phenomena in morphology, thereby accounting for the apparently spurious placement of the imperative plural - n in mesoclitic Spanish forms such as hága-lo-n 'Do it!', in which clitic lo is sandwiched between the verbal stem and the plural suffix. Kayne (2010) has challenged their analysis, arg…
Prenasalized and postoralized consonants
We propose that contour nasals come from two principal sources. One source, articulatorily driven, comes from underlying voiced stops, as nasal venting in order to sustain voicing. The other, perceptually driven, comes from underlying nasal consonants, as shielding next to con-trastively oral vowels. Although both processes are phonetically well motivated, we argue that the contoured allophones specifically arise in languages in which systemic or…
Sonic Signatures
Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the interfaces of phonology with other domains, including acoustic and visual. The volume embraces data spanning from Nivkh vowel harmony to Maxakalí sign langu…
Sonic Signatures
"Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the interfaces of phonology with other domains, including acoustic and visual. The volume embraces data spanning from Nivkh vowel harmony to Maxakalí sign lang…
Moraic onsets in Arrernte
The Australian language Arrernte has been argued by Breen & Pensalfini (1999) and Evans & Levinson (2009) to present a case of VC syllabification with coda maximisation, rather than CV syllabification with onset maximisation. In this paper we demonstrate that greater insights into a number of phenomena are achieved when they are analysed with CV syllabification and onset consonants that are moraic, a possibility independently proposed for a wide …
The phonology of handshape distribution in Maxakalí sign
We provide an analysis of the distribution of handshapes on the dominant and non-dominant hand in the incipient village sign language found in the Maxakalí community in Brazil. The most frequent handshapes reflect tendencies in choosing from the crosslinguistically unmarked set of handshapes, and are particularly well-suited to quantitative analyses of handshape complexity found in models such as Ann (2006) and Brentari (2003), in addition to fav…
Last-Conjunct Agreement in Slovenian
In this paper we present a discussion of Slovenian conjunct agreement phenomena, arguing that in one of the two strategies for determining agreement, agreement is simply linear; that is, verbal forms agree with the closest nominal of the conjunct. This paper is one of the first overviews of these phenomena in Slovenian and thus we view our contribution as largely empirical, supporting our claim with a corpus study. We show that existing analyses …
Phonological answers (and their corresponding questions)
The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects
Multiple agree with clitics
Pirahã Exceptionality
Everett (2005) has claimed that the grammar of Pirahã is exceptional in displaying 'inexplicable gaps', that these gaps follow from a cultural principle restricting communication to 'immediate experience', and that this principle has 'severe' consequences for work on universal grammar. We argue against each of these claims. Relying on the available documentation and descriptions of the language, especially the rich material in Everett 1986, 1987b…
The Surfeit of the Stimulus
In an experimental task with novel words, we find that some lexical statistical regularities of Turkish phonotactics are productively extended in nonce words, while others are not. In particular, while laryngeal alternation rates in the lexicon can be predicted by the place of articulation of the stem-final stop, by word-length, and by the preceding vowel quality, this laryngeal alternation is only productively conditioned by place of articulatio…
The Grammars of Conjunction Agreement in Slovenian
In this paper we report on the results of five experiments documenting the existence of three distinct grammars of conjunct agreement in Slovenian, found both within and across individuals: agreement with the highest conjunct, agreement with the closest conjunct, or agreement with the Boolean Phrase itself. We show that this variation is constrained and that some of these mechanisms can be blocked and/or forced depending on the properties of the …
Asymmetries in generalizing alternations to and from initial syllables
In the English lexicon, laryngeal alternations in the plural (e.g. leaf ~ leaves ) impact monosyllables more than finally stressed polysyllables. This is the opposite of what happens typologically, and would thereby run contrary to the predictions of INITIAL-SYLLABLE FAITHFULNESS . Despite the lexical pattern, in a wug test we found monosyllables to be impacted no more than finally stressed polysyllables were-a 'surfeit of the stimulus' effect, i…
Marked Targets versus Marked Triggers and Impoverishment of the Dual
This article investigates the interaction between morphological markedness and postsyntactic feature-deletion operations (impoverishment). Focusing on number, Nevins argues that dual is more marked than plural, aligning with traditional and contemporary morphological theories. Within a framework of abstract binary features, dual is represented as [-singular, -augmented], with [-augmented] marked in the context of [-singular]. The article distingu…
Markedness and morphotactics in Kadiwéu [+participant] agreement
Prenasalized and postoralized consonants
We propose that contour nasals come from two principal sources. One source, articulatorily driven, comes from underlying voiced stops, as nasal venting in order to sustain voicing. The other, perceptually driven, comes from underlying nasal consonants, as shielding next to con-trastively oral vowels. Although both processes are phonetically well motivated, we argue that the contoured allophones specifically arise in languages in which systemic or…
Variable rules meet Impoverishment theory
Closest Conjunct Agreement
Closest conjunct agreement is of great theoretical interest in terms of what it reveals about the structure of coordination; the locality of agreement relations; and the interaction between syntax, semantics, and morphology in the expression of agreement. We highlight recent approaches to the phenomenon, including typologically diverse case studies and experimentally elicited results, and point out crystallized generalizations as well as directio…
Beware Occam's Syntactic Razor
Harris and Halle (2005) present a framework (Generalized Reduplication) that unites the treatment of phonological reduplication and metathesis with similar phenomena in morphology, thereby accounting for the apparently spurious placement of the imperative plural - n in mesoclitic Spanish forms such as hága-lo-n 'Do it!', in which clitic lo is sandwiched between the verbal stem and the plural suffix. Kayne (2010) has challenged their analysis, arg…
Overwriting Does Not Optimize in Nonconcatenative Morphology
Overwriting is modeled in Optimality Theory as a competition for a position within the derivational base (Alderete et al. 1999, Ussishkin 1997). Faithfulness constraints that are evaluated on the basis of segment counting predict a typology of languages in which (a) optimization dictates that the relative size of the affixal material determines whether it will win out and "overwrite" the base, and (b) optimization ensures that if both the affix a…
Phonological representations and the variable patterning of glides
Fricative patterning in aspirating versus true voice languages
Building on the empirical insights of Beckman, Jessen & Ringen (2013), we compare the fricatives within the laryngeal systems of Russian and Turkish on the premise that the former is a final devoicing language, while the latter is not, but instead has alternations based on processes of intervocalic voicing and final fortition. This view has consequences for the analysis of fricatives in Russian vs. Turkish: Russian fricatives undergo final devoic…
The role of vowel phonotactics in native speech segmentation
Elided Clausal Conjunction Is Not the Only Source of Closest-Conjunct Agreement
A recurring hypothesis about the agreement phenomena generalized as closest-conjunct agreement takes this pattern to result from reduced clausal conjunction, simply displaying the agreement of the verb with the nonconjoined subject of the clause whose content survives ellipsis (Aoun, Benmamoun & Sportiche 1994, 1999; see also Wilder 1997). Closest-conjunct agreement is the dominant agreement pattern in the South Slavic languages Slovenian and Bos…
Maxakalí Nasality and Field Recording with Earbud Microphony
The challenges in verifying vowel nasalization acoustically are well-known, and for this reason many researchers have opted for the use of nasal airflow masks. Such equipment, however, is not always affordable for recordings or projects conducted in the field. In the present article, we apply the recently developed technology of earbud recordings in Stewart & Kohlberger (2017) to the study of nasality in Maxakalí as a new method in experimental f…
Triumphs and limits of the Contrastivity-Only Hypothesis
The Variable Hierarchy hypothesis of Dresher (2009) has a number of far-reaching consequences and applications - beyond the domain for which it was originally developed - including overspecification, kinship terminology, vowel reduction and whistled languages. On the other hand, the Contrastivity-Only Hypothesis of Dresher (2009) is, in its present form, empirically too limited once one looks at a full system of phonological processes within a la…
The Phonology and Morphology of Reduplication (review)
Reviewed by: The phonology and morphology of reduplication by Eric Raimy Andrew Nevins The phonology and morphology of reduplication. By Eric Raimy. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. 201. $97.80. The myriad processes of reduplication have often been romanticized as providing a ‘blueprint’ for phonology—a window into larger mechanisms of morphological expression and phonological computation. Eric Raimy’s book, a revised version of his 1999 diss…
On the syntactic expression of pejorative mood
The hypothesis of the copy theory of movement forces us to look at mismatches between syntax and LF on the one hand, and syntax and PF on the other in particular ways, often revealing new insights. Through such a lens, we examine the syntactic expression of pejorative mood through echo reduplication, focusing on shm -reduplication in (varieties of predominantly American) English. It is argued that the two elements in a reduplicated structure form…
Microvariations in harmony and value-relativized parametrization
This paper explores a parametric delimitation of the space of possible harmony patterns with respect to the class of feature-values that are visible. Extending the framework of Calabrese (1995), the proposal is that alternating morphemes that are searching for a harmonic value may have access to all-values , only a single-value , or the contrastive values of the harmonic feature. Two cases of microvariation are explored: [ATR] vowel harmony in St…
Overwriting Does Not Optimize in Nonconcatenative Morphology
Overwriting is modeled in Optimality Theory as a competition for a position within the derivational base (Alderete et al. 1999, Ussishkin 1997). Faithfulness constraints that are evaluated on the basis of segment counting predict a typology of languages in which (a) optimization dictates that the relative size of the affixal material determines whether it will win out and "overwrite" the base, and (b) optimization ensures that if both the affix a…
The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects
Rules, constraints, and phonological phenomena
Phonological representations and the variable patterning of glides
Rule Application in Phonology
This chapter describes a theory of phonology that employs ordered rules and illustrates how it accounts for certain complex phenomena central to the phonologies of three Slavic languages: Russian, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. It considers three important principles of phonological rule application, assumes that such application is preceded by morphological structure building, and argues that all Slavic nouns have the tripartite form Root + Theme + …
Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson and Vivan Franzén (2005). The phonology of Mongolian. (The Phonology of the World's Languages.) Oxford
Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson and Vivan Franzén (2005). The phonology of Mongolian. (The Phonology of the World's Languages.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xix+314. - Volume 26 Issue 3
Evidence and Argumentation
Evidence and argumentation:A reply to Everett (2009) Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, and Cilene Rodrigues This discussion note is a brief response to Everett (2009, E09), which was a reply to our assessment (Nevins, Pesetsky, & Rodrigues 2009, NP&R) of Everett's (2005, CA) earlier claims about the Amazonian language Pirahã. An important (and somewhat hidden) feature of E09 is a set of new empirical assertions presented in defense of CA's hypothesi…
Pirahã Exceptionality
Everett (2005) has claimed that the grammar of Pirahã is exceptional in displaying 'inexplicable gaps', that these gaps follow from a cultural principle restricting communication to 'immediate experience', and that this principle has 'severe' consequences for work on universal grammar. We argue against each of these claims. Relying on the available documentation and descriptions of the language, especially the rich material in Everett 1986, 1987b…
Locality in Vowel Harmony
A view of the locality conditions on vowel harmony, aligning empirical phenomena within phonology with the principles of the Minimalist program. Vowel harmony results from a set of restrictions that determine the possible and impossible sequences of vowels within a word. The study of syntax begins with the observation that the words of a sentence cannot go in just any order, and the study of phonology begins with the same observation for the cons…
Variable rules meet Impoverishment theory
Prospects and challenges for a clitic analysis of (A)SL agreement
Multiple agree with clitics
Convergent Evidence for Rolling Up Catalan Adjectives
April 01 2011 Convergent Evidence for Rolling Up Catalan Adjectives In Special Collection: CogNet Andrew Nevins Andrew Nevins University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Nevins University College London Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Linguistic Inquiry (2011) 42 (2): 339–345. https://doi.org/10.1162…
The Surfeit of the Stimulus
In an experimental task with novel words, we find that some lexical statistical regularities of Turkish phonotactics are productively extended in nonce words, while others are not. In particular, while laryngeal alternation rates in the lexicon can be predicted by the place of articulation of the stem-final stop, by word-length, and by the preceding vowel quality, this laryngeal alternation is only productively conditioned by place of articulatio…
Marked Targets versus Marked Triggers and Impoverishment of the Dual
This article investigates the interaction between morphological markedness and postsyntactic feature-deletion operations (impoverishment). Focusing on number, Nevins argues that dual is more marked than plural, aligning with traditional and contemporary morphological theories. Within a framework of abstract binary features, dual is represented as [-singular, -augmented], with [-augmented] marked in the context of [-singular]. The article distingu…
Markedness and morphotactics in Kadiwéu [+participant] agreement
Morphotactics
Asymmetries in generalizing alternations to and from initial syllables
In the English lexicon, laryngeal alternations in the plural (e.g. leaf ~ leaves ) impact monosyllables more than finally stressed polysyllables. This is the opposite of what happens typologically, and would thereby run contrary to the predictions of INITIAL-SYLLABLE FAITHFULNESS . Despite the lexical pattern, in a wug test we found monosyllables to be impacted no more than finally stressed polysyllables were-a 'surfeit of the stimulus' effect, i…
Probing the Representation of Nasal Vowels in Brazilian Portuguese With Language Games
In this paper, we demonstrate that Brazilian Portuguese phonemic nasal vowels are, as Mattoso Camara (1953, 1970) suggested, derived from an underlying sequence of oral vowel plus nasal consonant... or almost that. Two types of transformational language games reveal that Mattoso was 80% right: four of the nasal vowels are indeed derived from such a sequence, while nasal [a)] (strictly speaking, [å)]) is the result of an underlying, inherently nas…
A monoradical approach to some cases of disuppletion
This paper, a commentary on Harley 2014, explores cases of disuppletive roots, such as destroy/destruct, persons/people, and worse/badder, the predominant approach to which is to assume that these come from different roots. We adopt a monoradical approach to such cases, claiming that they always involve the same root, but that the suppletive allomorphy is conditioned by the presence or absence of additional functional heads in the structure. We a…
Athematic participle choice is predicted by argument structure
Apresentamos dois estudos experimentais com vistas a investigar o papel da estrutura sintática na formação do particípio passado em português brasileiro, verificando a validade de diferentes análise para as formas curtas e longas. na proposta da morfologia autônoma Aronoff (1994) CHAGAS (2007), a formação de particípios baseia-se em relações inter-paradigmáticas que se apresentam como desvinculadas de outros componentes da gramática. em contrapar…
Natalie Operstein (2010). Consonant structure and prevocalization. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 312.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia
Natalie Operstein (2010). Consonant structure and prevocalization. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 312.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp. x+234. - Volume 32 Issue 2
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