Peter Ackema
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Ackema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackema |
| SIGNATURE | ACKEMA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Auxiliary Selection
The chapter provides an overview of auxiliary selection in the perfect tense. While in some languages there is only one perfect tense auxiliary, a number of languages show a split between perfects in which the equivalent of to have occurs as auxiliary and perfects in which the equivalent of to be occurs as such. The first part of the chapter provides an overview of the relevant synchronic and diachronic data, mainly from Germanic and Romance lang…
Middles
This chapter provides an overview of the properties of a particular type of diathesis alternation known as the middle . The most salient property of a middle is that the internal argument of the verb appears as the subject of the construction, as in a passive. The semantics of a middle differs from that of passives in that middles cannot be episodic, but are generic statements about the subject. In the first part of the chapter, middles are compa…
Person features and syncretism
Subset controllers in agreement relations
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Arguments and agreement
Introduction
1. Introduction to OT syntax General tendencies that hold in or across languages are easy to find. For example, sentences in English usually have a subject. The subject often is the first element in the sentence. In many cases, the subject is the agent of the action expressed by the verb. Crucially, these statements are mere tendencies, not absolute laws. It is very difficult to find observable properties that hold without exception across langua…
Word-Formation in Optimality Theory
Beyond Morphology
This book proposes a theory of the syntax-morphology interface. A radically modular view of grammar is defended: the grammar contains separate 'macromodules' that deal with the wellformedness of syntactic, phonological, and semantic structures, respectively. The structures produced in the respective macromodules are not derivationally related. Rather there is a set of correspondence rules that regulate, for example, what parts of a syntactic stru…
On the relation between V-to-I and the structure of the inflectional paradigm
In this paper an account is provided of the trigger for V-to-I movement.This account explains why relatively rich inflection involves a distinct inflectional node in the clausal structure whereas relatively poor inflection is base-generated on the verb (Rohrbacher 1999), without having to assume that there are two fundamentally different types of inflection.I will argue that there is not a direct causal connection between rich inflection and V-to…
Colliding Complementizers in Dutch
Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2001
Optimal Questions
Conflict resolution in passive formation
Optimal questions
...
The middle construction and the syntax-semantics interface
Splitting morphology
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The middle construction and the syntax-semantics interface
Subset controllers in agreement relations
Optimal Questions
Person features and syncretism
Colliding Complementizers in Dutch
Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2001
Conflict resolution in passive formation
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Splitting morphology
Preview this article: Splitting morphology, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.9.03ack-1.gif
The middle construction and the syntax-semantics interface
Optimal questions
...
Optimal Questions
Conflict resolution in passive formation
On the relation between V-to-I and the structure of the inflectional paradigm
In this paper an account is provided of the trigger for V-to-I movement.This account explains why relatively rich inflection involves a distinct inflectional node in the clausal structure whereas relatively poor inflection is base-generated on the verb (Rohrbacher 1999), without having to assume that there are two fundamentally different types of inflection.I will argue that there is not a direct causal connection between rich inflection and V-to…
Colliding Complementizers in Dutch
Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2001
Beyond Morphology
This book proposes a theory of the syntax-morphology interface. A radically modular view of grammar is defended: the grammar contains separate 'macromodules' that deal with the wellformedness of syntactic, phonological, and semantic structures, respectively. The structures produced in the respective macromodules are not derivationally related. Rather there is a set of correspondence rules that regulate, for example, what parts of a syntactic stru…
Word-Formation in Optimality Theory
Arguments and agreement
Introduction
1. Introduction to OT syntax General tendencies that hold in or across languages are easy to find. For example, sentences in English usually have a subject. The subject often is the first element in the sentence. In many cases, the subject is the agent of the action expressed by the verb. Crucially, these statements are mere tendencies, not absolute laws. It is very difficult to find observable properties that hold without exception across langua…
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Person features and syncretism
Subset controllers in agreement relations
Auxiliary Selection
The chapter provides an overview of auxiliary selection in the perfect tense. While in some languages there is only one perfect tense auxiliary, a number of languages show a split between perfects in which the equivalent of to have occurs as auxiliary and perfects in which the equivalent of to be occurs as such. The first part of the chapter provides an overview of the relevant synchronic and diachronic data, mainly from Germanic and Romance lang…
Middles
This chapter provides an overview of the properties of a particular type of diathesis alternation known as the middle . The most salient property of a middle is that the internal argument of the verb appears as the subject of the construction, as in a passive. The semantics of a middle differs from that of passives in that middles cannot be episodic, but are generic statements about the subject. In the first part of the chapter, middles are compa…
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Agreement (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works)