Gimena Lorenzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 258497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gimena Lorenzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gimena |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorenzo |
| SIGNATURE | LORENZO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0821-281X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theoretical A‐grammatism: The Case for an Eliminativist Minimalism
This paper explores patterns of cross‐linguistic, intra‐linguistic and individual variation in the acceptability of sentences with extraction from islands, a classic object of attention of generative grammar. It asks which “competence” concept better fits the presented data. We contrast two alternative views: one that ascribes a multilingual competence to individual speakers, in the “rich competence” tradition of acquisition theory, and another o…
Otto Jespersen, one more broken leg in the historical stool of generative linguistics
Over the years, Noam Chomsky has constructed a historiographic narrative according to which Generative Grammar is the outcome of a mix comprising the early awareness of creativity by Galileo, the Cartesians, and Humboldt, the formalization of recursive functions by computational theorists, and an incipient internalist 'language' concept notably foreshadowed by Otto Jespersen. This paper tries to show that the latter ingredient is to be removed fr…
Study of Instinct, The
Development
Realization in biology
It is widely assumed that functional and dispositional properties are not identical to their physical base, but that there is some kind of asymmetrical ontological dependence between them. In this regard, a popular idea is that the former are realized by the latter, which, under the non-identity assumption, is generally understood to be a non-causal, constitutive relation. In this paper we examine two of the most widely accepted approaches to rea…
Computational Phenotypes: Towards an Evolutionary Developmental Biolinguistics
This is a book about language as a species-typical trait of humans. Linguists customarily describe it as an extremely exceptional capacity, even when compared with the biological endowment of closely related species, and this is the source of the many quarrels that exist around the aim of explaining its evolutionary origins. This book argues that language is not so exceptional after all, as according to the text it is just the human version of a …
La adicción es una enfermedad física, mental y espiritual'. Concepción de enfermedad y tratamiento de sujetos bajo consumo problemático de cocaína
La adiccin es una enfermedad fsica, mental y espiritual'. Concepcin de enfermedad y tratamiento de sujetos bajo consumo problemtico de cocana 'Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual illness'. Conception of disease and treatment of subjects under a problematic use of cocaine
Devo-darwinismo: Lo que el lenguaje nos enseña sobre el papel del desarrollo en la evolución natural
En su intento por neutralizar la aparente excepcionalidad del lenguaje, Darwin intuyó un hilo de continuidad entre este rasgo exclusivo de los humanos y el canto de los pájaros. Recientes hallazgos moleculares confirman que pudiera tratarse de un ejemplo de verdadera homología. Este trabajo repasa este aspecto del pensamiento de Darwin y comenta su significado en el contexto de la moderna biología evolutiva del desarrollo. Se sostiene que la conf…
Beyond generative geneticism: Rethinking language acquisition from a developmentalist point of view
What about a (really) minimalist theory of language acquisition
The Minimalist Program introduced a new concept of language and added new content to the innateness position concerning our linguistic capacity. It also redefined the metatheoretical role of the theory of acquisition within generative grammar. This article explores at length all these issues and offers a critical survey of the disconcerting situation dominating today's relationship between syntacticians and acquisitionists
Minimizing the genes for grammar. The minimalist program as a biological framework for the study of language
Subject clitics and clitic recycling: Locative sentences in some Iberian Romance languages
The first concern of this article is an analysis of locative sentences in the Iberian Romances. It is argued that both the existential (〈HAVE〉) and the stative (〈BE〉) construction derive from a single abstract verb. Their differences are based in the presence vs. the absence of an incorporation process over an otherwise identical lexical structure. The second topic of the paper is a study of the behavior of pronominal clitics within these sentenc…
On the aesthetic dimension of humor
Homogeneidad argumental en la formacion de cadenas
Les structures nominales de l'espagnol ont un caractere hermetique par rapport a l'extraction des constituants. L'etude analyse certains cas qui semblent contredire une telle generalisation et montre qu'il s'agit de l'extraction d'adjacents verbaux (et non nominaux)
Minimizing the genes for grammar. The minimalist program as a biological framework for the study of language
Beyond generative geneticism: Rethinking language acquisition from a developmentalist point of view
Subject clitics and clitic recycling: Locative sentences in some Iberian Romance languages
The first concern of this article is an analysis of locative sentences in the Iberian Romances. It is argued that both the existential (〈HAVE〉) and the stative (〈BE〉) construction derive from a single abstract verb. Their differences are based in the presence vs. the absence of an incorporation process over an otherwise identical lexical structure. The second topic of the paper is a study of the behavior of pronominal clitics within these sentenc…
What about a (really) minimalist theory of language acquisition
The Minimalist Program introduced a new concept of language and added new content to the innateness position concerning our linguistic capacity. It also redefined the metatheoretical role of the theory of acquisition within generative grammar. This article explores at length all these issues and offers a critical survey of the disconcerting situation dominating today's relationship between syntacticians and acquisitionists
Homogeneidad argumental en la formacion de cadenas
Les structures nominales de l'espagnol ont un caractere hermetique par rapport a l'extraction des constituants. L'etude analyse certains cas qui semblent contredire une telle generalisation et montre qu'il s'agit de l'extraction d'adjacents verbaux (et non nominaux)
On the aesthetic dimension of humor
Subject clitics and clitic recycling: Locative sentences in some Iberian Romance languages
The first concern of this article is an analysis of locative sentences in the Iberian Romances. It is argued that both the existential (〈HAVE〉) and the stative (〈BE〉) construction derive from a single abstract verb. Their differences are based in the presence vs. the absence of an incorporation process over an otherwise identical lexical structure. The second topic of the paper is a study of the behavior of pronominal clitics within these sentenc…
Minimizing the genes for grammar. The minimalist program as a biological framework for the study of language
What about a (really) minimalist theory of language acquisition
The Minimalist Program introduced a new concept of language and added new content to the innateness position concerning our linguistic capacity. It also redefined the metatheoretical role of the theory of acquisition within generative grammar. This article explores at length all these issues and offers a critical survey of the disconcerting situation dominating today's relationship between syntacticians and acquisitionists
Beyond generative geneticism: Rethinking language acquisition from a developmentalist point of view
Devo-darwinismo: Lo que el lenguaje nos enseña sobre el papel del desarrollo en la evolución natural
En su intento por neutralizar la aparente excepcionalidad del lenguaje, Darwin intuyó un hilo de continuidad entre este rasgo exclusivo de los humanos y el canto de los pájaros. Recientes hallazgos moleculares confirman que pudiera tratarse de un ejemplo de verdadera homología. Este trabajo repasa este aspecto del pensamiento de Darwin y comenta su significado en el contexto de la moderna biología evolutiva del desarrollo. Se sostiene que la conf…
Computational Phenotypes: Towards an Evolutionary Developmental Biolinguistics
This is a book about language as a species-typical trait of humans. Linguists customarily describe it as an extremely exceptional capacity, even when compared with the biological endowment of closely related species, and this is the source of the many quarrels that exist around the aim of explaining its evolutionary origins. This book argues that language is not so exceptional after all, as according to the text it is just the human version of a …
La adicción es una enfermedad física, mental y espiritual'. Concepción de enfermedad y tratamiento de sujetos bajo consumo problemático de cocaína
La adiccin es una enfermedad fsica, mental y espiritual'. Concepcin de enfermedad y tratamiento de sujetos bajo consumo problemtico de cocana 'Addiction is a physical, mental, and spiritual illness'. Conception of disease and treatment of subjects under a problematic use of cocaine
Study of Instinct, The
Development
Realization in biology
It is widely assumed that functional and dispositional properties are not identical to their physical base, but that there is some kind of asymmetrical ontological dependence between them. In this regard, a popular idea is that the former are realized by the latter, which, under the non-identity assumption, is generally understood to be a non-causal, constitutive relation. In this paper we examine two of the most widely accepted approaches to rea…
Otto Jespersen, one more broken leg in the historical stool of generative linguistics
Over the years, Noam Chomsky has constructed a historiographic narrative according to which Generative Grammar is the outcome of a mix comprising the early awareness of creativity by Galileo, the Cartesians, and Humboldt, the formalization of recursive functions by computational theorists, and an incipient internalist 'language' concept notably foreshadowed by Otto Jespersen. This paper tries to show that the latter ingredient is to be removed fr…
Theoretical A‐grammatism: The Case for an Eliminativist Minimalism
This paper explores patterns of cross‐linguistic, intra‐linguistic and individual variation in the acceptability of sentences with extraction from islands, a classic object of attention of generative grammar. It asks which “competence” concept better fits the presented data. We contrast two alternative views: one that ascribes a multilingual competence to individual speakers, in the “rich competence” tradition of acquisition theory, and another o…
Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Grammar (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Generative grammar (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Art (3 works)