Emily Manetta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Manetta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Manetta |
| SIGNATURE | MANETTA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0291-3500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“It was just so hard”
A highly productive debate has arisen over the past two decades concerning the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics in building meaning (Potts 2005; Kennedy and McNally 2005; Sauerland 2012; Roberts 2012; Coppock and Beaver 2014; Gutzmann 2019 i.a.). In this article we illustrate the depth of integration of context-independent and context-dependent meaning through a close analysis of the exclusive operator (EO) just. Recent accounts…
Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1999, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova, 2020; i.a.), and has been invoked productively in analyses investigating the position to which verbs move and the timing of verb movement in the grammar. Recently, Landau (2018; 2020a;b) has proposed a ph…
Cognitive Grammar
Cognitive grammar is a theory of grammar originally proposed by Robert Langacker which contends that the lexicon, syntax, and semantics form a continuum of symbolic elements and that all grammatical processes consist of meaning‐building. The theory was explicitly conceived as an alternative to the dominant formalist approaches to grammar in which syntax is an autonomous system interpreted through an objectivist semantics. Cognitive grammar falls …
Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu
Ellipsis inWh-in-Situ Languages
Wh-in-situ languages have a special role to play in investigating the relation between the wh-syntax of a language and the availability of sluicing-like constructions (SLCs). Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták (2013) propose that whether a language exhibits genuine sluicing should be predictable from the syntax of the language's wh-questions in nonelliptical contexts. We refine this formulation by considering SLCs in two contrasting wh-in-situ language…
The Shape of the Causative Verbal Domain
The properties of the productive morphological causative traditionally understood to be suggestive of biclausality have in more recent accounts been attributed to multiple layers within the verbal domain. This paper evaluates two approaches to the causative verbal domain: one requiring multiple stacked vPs as in Harley 2008 and Folli & Harley 2007, and a second in which causation instantiates a separate causative head as in Pylkkännen 1999, 2008.…
Reconsidering Rightward Scrambling
In the most recent account of rightward displacement in Hindi-Urdu, Bhatt and Dayal (2007) claim that all postverbal constituents are derived via rightward movement of a remnant VP. In this article, I argue that the remnant-VP approach does not allow us to make distinctions between the positioning requirements of DPs and CPs. I propose an account of rightward scrambling (following Mahajan 1988 ) that captures the correlation in Hindi-Urdu between…
Journey into paradise
In 2003, a Tajik film crew was permitted to cross the tightly controlled border into Afghan Badakhshan in order to film scenes for a documentary entitled Sacred Traditions in Sacred Places. Although official Tajik state policies and international non-governmental organizations have increasingly stressed freer movement and greater connectivity between the two sides, this ‘prescribed community’ strongly contrasts with the lived experience of Tajik …
Wh-Expletives in Hindi-Urdu
This article addresses wh-displacement and wh-expletive constructions in Hindi-Urdu, accounting for parametric variation in terms of the properties of the phase-defining heads C and v. This analysis provides an understanding of a systematic set of contrasts between Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu that suggests that crosslinguistic variation may follow from properties of specifically the phase-defining functional heads. It is then possible to construct a …
Unexpected left dislocation
Reconsidering Rightward Scrambling
In the most recent account of rightward displacement in Hindi-Urdu, Bhatt and Dayal (2007) claim that all postverbal constituents are derived via rightward movement of a remnant VP. In this article, I argue that the remnant-VP approach does not allow us to make distinctions between the positioning requirements of DPs and CPs. I propose an account of rightward scrambling (following Mahajan 1988 ) that captures the correlation in Hindi-Urdu between…
Wh-Expletives in Hindi-Urdu
This article addresses wh-displacement and wh-expletive constructions in Hindi-Urdu, accounting for parametric variation in terms of the properties of the phase-defining heads C and v. This analysis provides an understanding of a systematic set of contrasts between Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu that suggests that crosslinguistic variation may follow from properties of specifically the phase-defining functional heads. It is then possible to construct a …
Ellipsis inWh-in-Situ Languages
Wh-in-situ languages have a special role to play in investigating the relation between the wh-syntax of a language and the availability of sluicing-like constructions (SLCs). Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták (2013) propose that whether a language exhibits genuine sluicing should be predictable from the syntax of the language's wh-questions in nonelliptical contexts. We refine this formulation by considering SLCs in two contrasting wh-in-situ language…
Unexpected left dislocation
Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu
Journey into paradise
In 2003, a Tajik film crew was permitted to cross the tightly controlled border into Afghan Badakhshan in order to film scenes for a documentary entitled Sacred Traditions in Sacred Places. Although official Tajik state policies and international non-governmental organizations have increasingly stressed freer movement and greater connectivity between the two sides, this ‘prescribed community’ strongly contrasts with the lived experience of Tajik …
The Shape of the Causative Verbal Domain
The properties of the productive morphological causative traditionally understood to be suggestive of biclausality have in more recent accounts been attributed to multiple layers within the verbal domain. This paper evaluates two approaches to the causative verbal domain: one requiring multiple stacked vPs as in Harley 2008 and Folli & Harley 2007, and a second in which causation instantiates a separate causative head as in Pylkkännen 1999, 2008.…
Unexpected left dislocation
Wh-Expletives in Hindi-Urdu
This article addresses wh-displacement and wh-expletive constructions in Hindi-Urdu, accounting for parametric variation in terms of the properties of the phase-defining heads C and v. This analysis provides an understanding of a systematic set of contrasts between Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu that suggests that crosslinguistic variation may follow from properties of specifically the phase-defining functional heads. It is then possible to construct a …
Journey into paradise
In 2003, a Tajik film crew was permitted to cross the tightly controlled border into Afghan Badakhshan in order to film scenes for a documentary entitled Sacred Traditions in Sacred Places. Although official Tajik state policies and international non-governmental organizations have increasingly stressed freer movement and greater connectivity between the two sides, this ‘prescribed community’ strongly contrasts with the lived experience of Tajik …
Reconsidering Rightward Scrambling
In the most recent account of rightward displacement in Hindi-Urdu, Bhatt and Dayal (2007) claim that all postverbal constituents are derived via rightward movement of a remnant VP. In this article, I argue that the remnant-VP approach does not allow us to make distinctions between the positioning requirements of DPs and CPs. I propose an account of rightward scrambling (following Mahajan 1988 ) that captures the correlation in Hindi-Urdu between…
The Shape of the Causative Verbal Domain
The properties of the productive morphological causative traditionally understood to be suggestive of biclausality have in more recent accounts been attributed to multiple layers within the verbal domain. This paper evaluates two approaches to the causative verbal domain: one requiring multiple stacked vPs as in Harley 2008 and Folli & Harley 2007, and a second in which causation instantiates a separate causative head as in Pylkkännen 1999, 2008.…
Ellipsis inWh-in-Situ Languages
Wh-in-situ languages have a special role to play in investigating the relation between the wh-syntax of a language and the availability of sluicing-like constructions (SLCs). Van Craenenbroeck and Lipták (2013) propose that whether a language exhibits genuine sluicing should be predictable from the syntax of the language's wh-questions in nonelliptical contexts. We refine this formulation by considering SLCs in two contrasting wh-in-situ language…
Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu
Cognitive Grammar
Cognitive grammar is a theory of grammar originally proposed by Robert Langacker which contends that the lexicon, syntax, and semantics form a continuum of symbolic elements and that all grammatical processes consist of meaning‐building. The theory was explicitly conceived as an alternative to the dominant formalist approaches to grammar in which syntax is an autonomous system interpreted through an objectivist semantics. Cognitive grammar falls …
Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1999, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova, 2020; i.a.), and has been invoked productively in analyses investigating the position to which verbs move and the timing of verb movement in the grammar. Recently, Landau (2018; 2020a;b) has proposed a ph…
“It was just so hard”
A highly productive debate has arisen over the past two decades concerning the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics in building meaning (Potts 2005; Kennedy and McNally 2005; Sauerland 2012; Roberts 2012; Coppock and Beaver 2014; Gutzmann 2019 i.a.). In this article we illustrate the depth of integration of context-independent and context-dependent meaning through a close analysis of the exclusive operator (EO) just. Recent accounts…
Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Hindi (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works)