D Gary Miller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 150474 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Gary Miller |
| NOMBRES | D Gary |
| APELLIDO | Miller |
| FIRMA | MILLER D G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9311-1708 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Implementing post-normal science with or for EU policy actors
There is increasing recognition of the wicked nature of the intertwined climate, biodiversity and economic crises, and the need for adaptive, multi-scale approaches to understanding the complexity of both the problems and potential responses. Most science underpinning policy responses to sustainability issues, however, remains overtly apolitical and focussed on technical innovation; at odds with a critical body of literatures insisting on the rec…
Post-normal science in practice
Post-Normal Science (PNS) emphasises the need for scientists and policy-makers to iteratively co-analyse and learn together, as part of an extended peer community. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts when interacting with policy-makers are not well understood. Informed by insights from science and technology studies (STS) on modalities of interaction and the multiple potential roles of experts, we reflect on our experiences…
Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Why area-based targets for establishing new woodlands can limit or underplay their climate change mitigation benefits
Area-based targets for afforestation are a frequent and prominent component of policy discourses on forestry, land use and climate change emissions abatement. Such targets imply an expected contribution of afforestation to the net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet the nature of afforestation undertaken and its geographical distribution means that there is considerable uncertainty over the eventual emission reductions outcomes. This uncer…
The Oxford Gothic Grammar
This reference grammar of Gothic includes much history along with a description of Gothic grammar. Apart from runic inscriptions, Gothic is the earliest attested language of the Germanic family in Indo-European. Specifically, it is East Germanic. Most of the extant Gothic corpus is a 4th-century translation of the Bible, traditionally ascribed to Wulfila. This translation is historically important because it antedates Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Goth…
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than …
External Influences on English
From its Germanic roots on the Continent, English has had many influences from other languages. This work documents the main influences on the lexicon and the structure. The earliest contacts were with the Romans, when many words were borrowed by the Germanic tribes from Vulgar Latin. In the British Isles, Roman influence continued but the primary influence, though largely substratal, was from Brythonic Celtic. In the later period the Latin influ…
Theoretical Trends in Historical Syntax
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How new languages emerge (review)
This eight-chapter book summarizes and updates much of Lightfoot's work over the past forty years.The basic premise is that 'There are no principles of history', which is 'a function of many interacting factors' (166).Consequently, 'To explain language change, one needs to understand grammatical theory, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and social variation in grammars' (viii).Formerly, L (1999:225) claimed that explaining language change…
The origin of the Welsh conjugated infinitive
Several issues of theoretical, typological, and historical interest are investigated. Conjugated infinitives (those with subject person agreement) are relatively rare but sufficiently well documented as to prompt some linguists to question the efficacy of the word nonfinite . Moreover, the conjugated infinitives that have received attention in the literature share significant properties crosslinguistically, which cannot be accidental. Historicall…
Where do conjugated infinitives come from
Although conjugated infinitives (CIs) occur in languages as diverse as Portuguese, Welsh, Hungarian, and West Greenlandic, the prototypical infinitive is nonfinite in the traditional sense: it has no subject person agreement. This paper argues that CIs are special in the sense that they cannot arise spontaneously in the course of language acquisition. Even in languages with obligatory agreement, CIs require salient triggers. Two common sources ar…
Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change
This book investigates the precise nature of nonfinite structures and explores the ways in which they change. Gary Miller examines a broad range of structures, including traditional infinitives, gerunds, and participles, across different Indo-European (and some non-Indo-European) languages now and in the past. As structures which are nonfinite in some languages are not so in others, the question arises whether the concept 'nonfinite' has any mean…
Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics
The history of deontic expressions in several languages reveals some naturalness in (a) constructions involving BE plus infinitive/gerundial, (b) thematic object initially surfacing in the nom, (c) reanalysis via case accommodation in neuters to a structure in which the thematic object surfaces in the acc, and (d) animates being first to adopt the change obligatorily. Neuters permitted two analyses of the theme argument: (i) nom subject; (ii) acc…
Gerund and gerundive in Latin
The Latin gerundive has three distinctive properties: (i) agreement with thematic object; (ii) ungrammaticality of lexical thematic subject; and (iii) inability to take both a specifier (determiner) and a complement while infinitives can have both. A case- theoretic account within the Minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995) explains all three of these properties at once. The oldest documents in Italic and Latin support the hypothesis that the geru…
The Morphological Legacy of French
A reexamination of a small portion of the morphological evidence reveals that there were no fewer than 100 hybrid derivatives (of the type French suffix on native base) prior to 1450 and at least 64 before 1400. Given that most of the texts are literary, those are fairly high numbers. Moreover, the more banal the hybrid, the more likely it was to be allowed to occur in literary texts. Not surprisingly, glossaries and other non-literary texts are …
The Middle English Reanalysis of DO
Formal (syntactic, distributional) and functional evidence are presented that do did not develop directly from a lexical (causative) verb to a dummy tense-carrier (member of INFL Phrase), but first became an aspectual auxiliary on a par with have and be. Relying on the historical principle that a change, once formulated, can take several generations to complete, and that a transition phase featuring variation and lexical diffusion is to be expect…
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types o…
Complex verb Formation
The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek
Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition
Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy
Language Change and Poetic Options
This paper supports a hypothesis that poetic ‘options’ (at least on the phonological plane) are of the same types as language changes—i.e., that ‘poetic license’ consists of the relaxation, re-ordering, generalization, inversion etc. of rules of the natural language to yield metrically relevant representations that may differ considerably from outputs in the spoken language. The issue of when to measure metrical, rhythmic, or linguistic complexit…
Pure Velars and Palatals in Indo-European
On Constraining Global Rules in Phonology
Kiparsky 1973b proposes a number of constraints on global rules. All his examples are of the type where derived strings become separated, in terms of their behavior, from otherwise identical underlying strings. This paper will argue for cases of global rules that do not meet Kiparsky's conditions. In fact, the two cases discussed violate Kiparsky's conditions by applying to underlying rather than derived strings. The inescapable conclusion is tha…
Indo-European
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors
Indo-European
Implementing post-normal science with or for EU policy actors
There is increasing recognition of the wicked nature of the intertwined climate, biodiversity and economic crises, and the need for adaptive, multi-scale approaches to understanding the complexity of both the problems and potential responses. Most science underpinning policy responses to sustainability issues, however, remains overtly apolitical and focussed on technical innovation; at odds with a critical body of literatures insisting on the rec…
Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Why area-based targets for establishing new woodlands can limit or underplay their climate change mitigation benefits
Area-based targets for afforestation are a frequent and prominent component of policy discourses on forestry, land use and climate change emissions abatement. Such targets imply an expected contribution of afforestation to the net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, yet the nature of afforestation undertaken and its geographical distribution means that there is considerable uncertainty over the eventual emission reductions outcomes. This uncer…
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than …
Post-normal science in practice
Post-Normal Science (PNS) emphasises the need for scientists and policy-makers to iteratively co-analyse and learn together, as part of an extended peer community. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts when interacting with policy-makers are not well understood. Informed by insights from science and technology studies (STS) on modalities of interaction and the multiple potential roles of experts, we reflect on our experiences…
Language Change and Poetic Options
This paper supports a hypothesis that poetic ‘options’ (at least on the phonological plane) are of the same types as language changes—i.e., that ‘poetic license’ consists of the relaxation, re-ordering, generalization, inversion etc. of rules of the natural language to yield metrically relevant representations that may differ considerably from outputs in the spoken language. The issue of when to measure metrical, rhythmic, or linguistic complexit…
Rt-Clusters in Avestan
Indo-Iranian ∗- rt - is represented in Avestan sometimes as /Ř/ (written š ), sometimes as rt. It is maintained that /Ř/ is the normal phonological reflex of ∗- rt -, and that rt has been restored according to Kuryłowicz's ‘Fourth Law of Analogy’ in motivated categories where there was still awareness of a morpheme boundary between the /r/ and the /t
Titres et noms propres en iranien ancien
Rt-Clusters in Avestan
Indo-Iranian ∗- rt - is represented in Avestan sometimes as /Ř/ (written š ), sometimes as rt. It is maintained that /Ř/ is the normal phonological reflex of ∗- rt -, and that rt has been restored according to Kuryłowicz's ‘Fourth Law of Analogy’ in motivated categories where there was still awareness of a morpheme boundary between the /r/ and the /t
A case for derivational history in Greek
Some theoretical implications of Greenlandic phonology
Fundamentals of Human Sexuality
Open Marriage
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Marriage Stability, Divorce, and the Law
Group Marriage
On Constraining Global Rules in Phonology
Kiparsky 1973b proposes a number of constraints on global rules. All his examples are of the type where derived strings become separated, in terms of their behavior, from otherwise identical underlying strings. This paper will argue for cases of global rules that do not meet Kiparsky's conditions. In fact, the two cases discussed violate Kiparsky's conditions by applying to underlying rather than derived strings. The inescapable conclusion is tha…
Indo-European
Pure Velars and Palatals in Indo-European
Language Change and Poetic Options
This paper supports a hypothesis that poetic ‘options’ (at least on the phonological plane) are of the same types as language changes—i.e., that ‘poetic license’ consists of the relaxation, re-ordering, generalization, inversion etc. of rules of the natural language to yield metrically relevant representations that may differ considerably from outputs in the spoken language. The issue of when to measure metrical, rhythmic, or linguistic complexit…
Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy
Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition
The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek
The Middle English Reanalysis of DO
Formal (syntactic, distributional) and functional evidence are presented that do did not develop directly from a lexical (causative) verb to a dummy tense-carrier (member of INFL Phrase), but first became an aspectual auxiliary on a par with have and be. Relying on the historical principle that a change, once formulated, can take several generations to complete, and that a transition phase featuring variation and lexical diffusion is to be expect…
Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types o…
Complex verb Formation
The Morphological Legacy of French
A reexamination of a small portion of the morphological evidence reveals that there were no fewer than 100 hybrid derivatives (of the type French suffix on native base) prior to 1450 and at least 64 before 1400. Given that most of the texts are literary, those are fairly high numbers. Moreover, the more banal the hybrid, the more likely it was to be allowed to occur in literary texts. Not surprisingly, glossaries and other non-literary texts are …
Gerund and gerundive in Latin
The Latin gerundive has three distinctive properties: (i) agreement with thematic object; (ii) ungrammaticality of lexical thematic subject; and (iii) inability to take both a specifier (determiner) and a complement while infinitives can have both. A case- theoretic account within the Minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995) explains all three of these properties at once. The oldest documents in Italic and Latin support the hypothesis that the geru…
Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics
The history of deontic expressions in several languages reveals some naturalness in (a) constructions involving BE plus infinitive/gerundial, (b) thematic object initially surfacing in the nom, (c) reanalysis via case accommodation in neuters to a structure in which the thematic object surfaces in the acc, and (d) animates being first to adopt the change obligatorily. Neuters permitted two analyses of the theme argument: (i) nom subject; (ii) acc…
Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change
This book investigates the precise nature of nonfinite structures and explores the ways in which they change. Gary Miller examines a broad range of structures, including traditional infinitives, gerunds, and participles, across different Indo-European (and some non-Indo-European) languages now and in the past. As structures which are nonfinite in some languages are not so in others, the question arises whether the concept 'nonfinite' has any mean…
Where do conjugated infinitives come from
Although conjugated infinitives (CIs) occur in languages as diverse as Portuguese, Welsh, Hungarian, and West Greenlandic, the prototypical infinitive is nonfinite in the traditional sense: it has no subject person agreement. This paper argues that CIs are special in the sense that they cannot arise spontaneously in the course of language acquisition. Even in languages with obligatory agreement, CIs require salient triggers. Two common sources ar…
The origin of the Welsh conjugated infinitive
Several issues of theoretical, typological, and historical interest are investigated. Conjugated infinitives (those with subject person agreement) are relatively rare but sufficiently well documented as to prompt some linguists to question the efficacy of the word nonfinite . Moreover, the conjugated infinitives that have received attention in the literature share significant properties crosslinguistically, which cannot be accidental. Historicall…
How new languages emerge (review)
This eight-chapter book summarizes and updates much of Lightfoot's work over the past forty years.The basic premise is that 'There are no principles of history', which is 'a function of many interacting factors' (166).Consequently, 'To explain language change, one needs to understand grammatical theory, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and social variation in grammars' (viii).Formerly, L (1999:225) claimed that explaining language change…
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