Jonathan Ginzburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Ginzburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginzburg |
| SIGNATURE | GINZBURG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5737-0991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exceptions from rules and noteworthy exceptions: The balance scale for making exceptions
Exception phrases have recently gained renewed attention in semantics. Our contribution is two-fold. (1) We provide a range of empirical data that show a much broader use of exceptives than acknowledged in previous accounts. (2) Based on advances in linguistics and philosophy—namely type-theoretical semantics and a two-dimensional denotational underpinning of plural NPs—we propose a new analysis of exception phrases. We develop a balance scale mo…
Language games and their types
Exclaiming non-sententially: Exclamative sluices and the (non-elliptical) nature of ellipsis constructions
Exclamative sluices (What a goal!, How odd!) have not been part of the debate on the nature of ellipsis constructions. As we show here their profile is quite different from the usual suspects, VP ellipsis and interrogative sluicing – they occur much more frequently than their clausal counterparts and their resolution is more often than not exophoric (i.e., not based on a linguistic antecedent.). On our analysis exclamative sluices are simply scal…
Leading voices: Dialogue semantics, cognitive science and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction
The neurocognition of multimodal interaction – the embedded, embodied, predictive processing of vocal and non-vocal communicative behaviour – has developed into an important subfield of cognitive science. It leaves a glaring lacuna, however, namely the dearth of a precise investigation of the meanings of the verbal and non-verbal communication signals that constitute multimodal interaction. Cognitively construable dialogue semantics provides a de…
Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months
A Longitudinal Characterization of Typical Laughter Development in Mother–Child Interaction from 12 to 36 Months: Formal Features and Reciprocal Responsiveness
Laughter is a valuable means for communicating and engaging in interaction since the earliest months of life. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of work on how its use develops in early interactions—given its putative reflexive nature, it has often been disregarded from studies on pre-linguistic vocalizations. We provide a longitudinal characterization of laughter use analyzing interactions of 4 babies with their mothers at five time-points (12, 18,…
Referential transparency as the proper treatment for quantification
An important motivation for Montague’s work on quantification (Montague 1974) was to achieve uniformity with respect to referential and quantificational subjects. This was attained by type raising all NPs to denote sets of sets (indeed there are claims that such a move is theoretically necessary) and by giving up a subject–predicate semantics where the verbal predicate predicates of the nominal argument. In this paper we argue for essentially the…
Wh-Questions are understood before polar-questions: Evidence from English, German, and Chinese
In this paper we consider the order of emergence of comprehension of wh-questions and polar-questions. We argue that considerations of complexity and input favour the earlier emergence of polar questions; on the other hand, if one assumes that question understanding emerges as a consequence of interactive learning this favours (certain) wh-questions, as well as a small subclass of polar questions. We offer corpus evidence from the Providence corp…
Laughter as language
Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists. However, the assumption has been that laughter lacks meaning akin to what words and phrases possess and that it does not contribute to the compositional construction of meaning. In this paper, we argue that, in fact, laughter (and other non-verbal social signals like s…
Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation
Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and pres…
The Interactive Stance: Meaning of Conversation
International audience
Answers without questions: The emergence of fragments in child language
Non-sentential utterances (NSUs), utterances that lack an overt verbal (more generally predicative) constituent, are common in adult speech. This paper presents the results of a corpus study of the emergence of certain classes of NSUs in child language, based primarily on data from the Manchester Corpus from CHILDES. Our principal finding is the late short query effect : the main classes of non-sentential queries (NSQs) are acquired much later th…
Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach
In this article we use well-known machine learning methods to tackle a novel task, namely the classification of non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in dialogue. We introduce a fine-grained taxonomy of NSU classes based on corpus work, and then report on the results of several machine learning experiments. First, we present a pilot study focused on one of the NSU classes in the taxonomy—bare wh-phrases or “sluices”—and explore the task of disambiguat…
Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months
Answers without questions: The emergence of fragments in child language
Non-sentential utterances (NSUs), utterances that lack an overt verbal (more generally predicative) constituent, are common in adult speech. This paper presents the results of a corpus study of the emergence of certain classes of NSUs in child language, based primarily on data from the Manchester Corpus from CHILDES. Our principal finding is the late short query effect : the main classes of non-sentential queries (NSQs) are acquired much later th…
Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation
Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach
In this article we use well-known machine learning methods to tackle a novel task, namely the classification of non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in dialogue. We introduce a fine-grained taxonomy of NSU classes based on corpus work, and then report on the results of several machine learning experiments. First, we present a pilot study focused on one of the NSU classes in the taxonomy—bare wh-phrases or “sluices”—and explore the task of disambiguat…
Answers without questions: The emergence of fragments in child language
Non-sentential utterances (NSUs), utterances that lack an overt verbal (more generally predicative) constituent, are common in adult speech. This paper presents the results of a corpus study of the emergence of certain classes of NSUs in child language, based primarily on data from the Manchester Corpus from CHILDES. Our principal finding is the late short query effect : the main classes of non-sentential queries (NSQs) are acquired much later th…
The Interactive Stance: Meaning of Conversation
International audience
Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and pres…
Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation
Laughter as language
Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists. However, the assumption has been that laughter lacks meaning akin to what words and phrases possess and that it does not contribute to the compositional construction of meaning. In this paper, we argue that, in fact, laughter (and other non-verbal social signals like s…
Wh-Questions are understood before polar-questions: Evidence from English, German, and Chinese
In this paper we consider the order of emergence of comprehension of wh-questions and polar-questions. We argue that considerations of complexity and input favour the earlier emergence of polar questions; on the other hand, if one assumes that question understanding emerges as a consequence of interactive learning this favours (certain) wh-questions, as well as a small subclass of polar questions. We offer corpus evidence from the Providence corp…
A Longitudinal Characterization of Typical Laughter Development in Mother–Child Interaction from 12 to 36 Months: Formal Features and Reciprocal Responsiveness
Laughter is a valuable means for communicating and engaging in interaction since the earliest months of life. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of work on how its use develops in early interactions—given its putative reflexive nature, it has often been disregarded from studies on pre-linguistic vocalizations. We provide a longitudinal characterization of laughter use analyzing interactions of 4 babies with their mothers at five time-points (12, 18,…
Referential transparency as the proper treatment for quantification
An important motivation for Montague’s work on quantification (Montague 1974) was to achieve uniformity with respect to referential and quantificational subjects. This was attained by type raising all NPs to denote sets of sets (indeed there are claims that such a move is theoretically necessary) and by giving up a subject–predicate semantics where the verbal predicate predicates of the nominal argument. In this paper we argue for essentially the…
Exclaiming non-sententially: Exclamative sluices and the (non-elliptical) nature of ellipsis constructions
Exclamative sluices (What a goal!, How odd!) have not been part of the debate on the nature of ellipsis constructions. As we show here their profile is quite different from the usual suspects, VP ellipsis and interrogative sluicing – they occur much more frequently than their clausal counterparts and their resolution is more often than not exophoric (i.e., not based on a linguistic antecedent.). On our analysis exclamative sluices are simply scal…
Leading voices: Dialogue semantics, cognitive science and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction
The neurocognition of multimodal interaction – the embedded, embodied, predictive processing of vocal and non-vocal communicative behaviour – has developed into an important subfield of cognitive science. It leaves a glaring lacuna, however, namely the dearth of a precise investigation of the meanings of the verbal and non-verbal communication signals that constitute multimodal interaction. Cognitively construable dialogue semantics provides a de…
Growing up laughing: Laughables and pragmatic functions between 12 and 36 months
Language games and their types
Exceptions from rules and noteworthy exceptions: The balance scale for making exceptions
Exception phrases have recently gained renewed attention in semantics. Our contribution is two-fold. (1) We provide a range of empirical data that show a much broader use of exceptives than acknowledged in previous accounts. (2) Based on advances in linguistics and philosophy—namely type-theoretical semantics and a two-dimensional denotational underpinning of plural NPs—we propose a new analysis of exception phrases. We develop a balance scale mo…
Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Grammar (5 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works)