Walter Petrovitz

Biographic Data

ID1097303
NAMEWalter Petrovitz
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMEPetrovitz
SIGNATUREPETROVITZ W
AFFILIATIONSSt. John's University
ORCID0000-0003-1654-7230
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Seduction of Etymology

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEWORD2023References: 2

    The use of etymology is an essential characteristic of the writing of Martin Heidegger. Believing that ordinary language had lost its power to express certain philosophical ideas, Heidegger often looked to earlier meanings of words or parsed derived words in order to analyze separate morphemes. An appreciation of this approach is central in understanding Heidegger’s work. He also believed that etymologizing was essential in interpreting the works…

  • Morphological creativity in a China English corpus

    Walter Petrovitz, Herbert D Pierson et al.ARTICLEWORD2018References: 11

    With increasing numbers of international students from China at American universities, China English has become a matter of great interest and concern for educators. Recent studies have delineated characteristics of its grammatical features and lexical usage, but its processes of word derivation have been neglected. This study is based upon the analysis of a corpus consisting of the entrance-examination essays of Chinese international students. I…

  • A reevaluation of Proto-Indo-European glides as sources of Greek spiritus asper

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEWORD2004References: 3

  • Towards a Grammar of Allusion

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEThe Classical World2003

  • The syntactic representation of understood subjects

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEWORD1999References: 3

    Every theory of grammar must employ a certain degree of abstraction. Theories have, however, differed with regard to the abstract elements they use and the distance of their grammatical representations from the physical data they are intended to explain. The present article deals with the question of absent verb subjects which must be supplied for full interpretation. Some recent work in syntax has included such subjects as formal elements within…

  • On the opacity of clausal constituents

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEWORD1997

    Clausal constituents of sentences present analytical difficulties in terms of both their distribution and their ability to determine syntactic relationships. This study proposes a typology of these constituents based on their differing syntactic and semantic properties and corresponding distinctions involving question formation. Contrary to the claims of government-binding theory, the analysis presented here argues that the data can ultimately be…

  • The effect of discourse factors on backward anaphora

    Walter PetrovitzARTICLEWORD1996Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article investigates the conditions under which in English a pronoun and a following noun may be understood as having intended coreference when the pronoun lacks an immediate antecedent. The analysis presented supports the claim that, with the exception of certain syntactic restrictions, the possibility of such coreference is determined by discourse factors. The sensitivity of pronominal anaphora to various discourse-dependent stress pattern…