James E Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James E Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | James E |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9570-1568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis
Researchers have reported that British English do (also called ‘propredicate do ’) is permitted in only a subset of the syntactic configurations that permit standard VP / post-auxiliary ellipsis in English. Problematically, the reliability of the acceptability judgment data underlying all prior generative research on British English do ellipsis is not guaranteed. This situation transpires because these data were collected informally, which is not…
Short sources, islandhood, and pronominal correlates
This paper focuses on multiple sluicing (MS) utterances in which the antecedent for sluicing is syntactically complex, insofar as it contains at least one embedded clause. Complex antecedent MS (henceforth caMS) is subject to the clausemate condition (CC). Phrased in sententialist terms, the CC bans sluiced wh-phrases from being base-generated in different finite clauses in the elliptic clause. Under specific conditions, it seems that the CC is o…
Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian
Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian
We present a comparative analysis of English and Hungarian reprise fragments. We argue that reprise fragments should be afforded the same theoretical treatment as standard (i.e. nonreprise) fragments. Assuming that standard fragmentary answers and questions are remnants of an ellipsis operation that applies to a clause, this entails that reprise fragments are also remnants of clausal ellipsis. We show that the prevailing approach to standard frag…
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta
Great Firewall of China
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time,The Great Firewall of Chinadraws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firew…
Gender, Risk and Journalism
Ulrich Beck states “risk is the anticipation of the catastrophe—so it is existent and non-existent”. The increasing danger to all journalists is a feature of similar surveys focused on journalistic work in the theatre of war. The problems of the newspaper industry, the new digital economy, the changing nature of the job market and the drive to freelance work have forced many more journalists out of staff jobs. A significant concern of the survey …
The Great Firewall of China
Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields – both technically and politically’ – Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo ‘An urgent and much needed reminder about how China's quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet freedom’ – Kristie Lu Stout, CNN ‘An important and incisive history of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the governm…
Beyond MaxElide
Using Takahashi and Fox 2005 as an exemplar, this article argues that analyses of English ellipsis that make recourse to a MaxElide constraint (first introduced in Merchant 2008 ) are untenable, and that one must look beyond MaxElide to explain the distribution of acceptability in the "rebinding" elliptical constructions that MaxElide was originally invoked to explain. A novel analysis is outlined that attributes the unacceptability observed in t…
Parenthesis
In Griffiths and De Vries 2013 (G&dV), we offer an argument in favor of treating appositive relative clauses (ARCs) as syntactically integrated into their hosts, an argument that revolves around the distribution of ARCs in clausal ellipsis environments. In a reply, Ott (2016) counters this specific argument, rejects the more general integration analysis adopted in G&dV on conceptual grounds, and contends that an orphanage analysis of ARCs provide…
Prepositional object gaps in British English
In British English (BrE), a subset of pronominal objects of prepositions in have/with possessives may be optionally realised as prepositional object gaps (POGs). In this short paper, we introduce three core properties of this previously unreported phenomenon, and then outline a preliminary syntactic analysis to straightforwardly capture them. These properties are: POGs are only observed in BrE, POGs are only observed in have/with possessives, and…
Parenthetical verb constructions, fragment answers, and constituent modification
Reformulative appositions and clausal ellipsis
Parenthesis and presupposition in discourse
Parentheses do not affect the semantic truth conditions of the host clause, but they do affect the discourse structure. We propose a maximally simple update system for the conversational context. Presuppositions are treated as past requests for the interlocutor’s consent. Parentheticals act like overt presuppositions unless they are linearly last in the utterance, in which case they can be taken as a current update request. This has consequences …
Contrast and Island Sensitivity in Clausal Ellipsis
This paper offers a comprehensive and uniform theory of island repair in clausal ellipsis (sluicing and fragments). We show that the correct generalization defines the repairing and the nonrepairing types ofTPellipsis in terms ofcontrastivity:TPellipsis withcontrastiveremnants does not repair islands, whereasTPellipsis withnoncontrastiveremnants does. Contrary to the influential account of Merchant (), we base our explanation for the island sensi…
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives
The goal of this squib is to explain an intriguing data set involving appositives and fragment answers, thereby providing support for the idea that appositives, and by extension parentheses more generally, are related to the host clause in syntax, via parenthetical coordination
Contrast and Island Sensitivity in Clausal Ellipsis
This paper offers a comprehensive and uniform theory of island repair in clausal ellipsis (sluicing and fragments). We show that the correct generalization defines the repairing and the nonrepairing types ofTPellipsis in terms ofcontrastivity:TPellipsis withcontrastiveremnants does not repair islands, whereasTPellipsis withnoncontrastiveremnants does. Contrary to the influential account of Merchant (), we base our explanation for the island sensi…
The Great Firewall of China
Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields – both technically and politically’ – Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo ‘An urgent and much needed reminder about how China's quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet freedom’ – Kristie Lu Stout, CNN ‘An important and incisive history of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the governm…
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives
The goal of this squib is to explain an intriguing data set involving appositives and fragment answers, thereby providing support for the idea that appositives, and by extension parentheses more generally, are related to the host clause in syntax, via parenthetical coordination
Beyond MaxElide
Using Takahashi and Fox 2005 as an exemplar, this article argues that analyses of English ellipsis that make recourse to a MaxElide constraint (first introduced in Merchant 2008 ) are untenable, and that one must look beyond MaxElide to explain the distribution of acceptability in the "rebinding" elliptical constructions that MaxElide was originally invoked to explain. A novel analysis is outlined that attributes the unacceptability observed in t…
Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian
We present a comparative analysis of English and Hungarian reprise fragments. We argue that reprise fragments should be afforded the same theoretical treatment as standard (i.e. nonreprise) fragments. Assuming that standard fragmentary answers and questions are remnants of an ellipsis operation that applies to a clause, this entails that reprise fragments are also remnants of clausal ellipsis. We show that the prevailing approach to standard frag…
Parenthesis
In Griffiths and De Vries 2013 (G&dV), we offer an argument in favor of treating appositive relative clauses (ARCs) as syntactically integrated into their hosts, an argument that revolves around the distribution of ARCs in clausal ellipsis environments. In a reply, Ott (2016) counters this specific argument, rejects the more general integration analysis adopted in G&dV on conceptual grounds, and contends that an orphanage analysis of ARCs provide…
Parenthetical verb constructions, fragment answers, and constituent modification
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta
Great Firewall of China
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time,The Great Firewall of Chinadraws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firew…
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives
The goal of this squib is to explain an intriguing data set involving appositives and fragment answers, thereby providing support for the idea that appositives, and by extension parentheses more generally, are related to the host clause in syntax, via parenthetical coordination
Parenthesis and presupposition in discourse
Parentheses do not affect the semantic truth conditions of the host clause, but they do affect the discourse structure. We propose a maximally simple update system for the conversational context. Presuppositions are treated as past requests for the interlocutor’s consent. Parentheticals act like overt presuppositions unless they are linearly last in the utterance, in which case they can be taken as a current update request. This has consequences …
Contrast and Island Sensitivity in Clausal Ellipsis
This paper offers a comprehensive and uniform theory of island repair in clausal ellipsis (sluicing and fragments). We show that the correct generalization defines the repairing and the nonrepairing types ofTPellipsis in terms ofcontrastivity:TPellipsis withcontrastiveremnants does not repair islands, whereasTPellipsis withnoncontrastiveremnants does. Contrary to the influential account of Merchant (), we base our explanation for the island sensi…
Prepositional object gaps in British English
In British English (BrE), a subset of pronominal objects of prepositions in have/with possessives may be optionally realised as prepositional object gaps (POGs). In this short paper, we introduce three core properties of this previously unreported phenomenon, and then outline a preliminary syntactic analysis to straightforwardly capture them. These properties are: POGs are only observed in BrE, POGs are only observed in have/with possessives, and…
Parenthetical verb constructions, fragment answers, and constituent modification
Reformulative appositions and clausal ellipsis
The Great Firewall of China
Readers will come away startled at just how fragile the online infrastructure we all depend on is and how much influence China wields – both technically and politically’ – Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo ‘An urgent and much needed reminder about how China's quest for cyber sovereignty is undermining global Internet freedom’ – Kristie Lu Stout, CNN ‘An important and incisive history of the Chinese internet that introduces us to the governm…
Beyond MaxElide
Using Takahashi and Fox 2005 as an exemplar, this article argues that analyses of English ellipsis that make recourse to a MaxElide constraint (first introduced in Merchant 2008 ) are untenable, and that one must look beyond MaxElide to explain the distribution of acceptability in the "rebinding" elliptical constructions that MaxElide was originally invoked to explain. A novel analysis is outlined that attributes the unacceptability observed in t…
Parenthesis
In Griffiths and De Vries 2013 (G&dV), we offer an argument in favor of treating appositive relative clauses (ARCs) as syntactically integrated into their hosts, an argument that revolves around the distribution of ARCs in clausal ellipsis environments. In a reply, Ott (2016) counters this specific argument, rejects the more general integration analysis adopted in G&dV on conceptual grounds, and contends that an orphanage analysis of ARCs provide…
Gender, Risk and Journalism
Ulrich Beck states “risk is the anticipation of the catastrophe—so it is existent and non-existent”. The increasing danger to all journalists is a feature of similar surveys focused on journalistic work in the theatre of war. The problems of the newspaper industry, the new digital economy, the changing nature of the job market and the drive to freelance work have forced many more journalists out of staff jobs. A significant concern of the survey …
Urban flood risks and emerging challenges in a Chinese delta
Great Firewall of China
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time,The Great Firewall of Chinadraws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firew…
Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian
Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian
We present a comparative analysis of English and Hungarian reprise fragments. We argue that reprise fragments should be afforded the same theoretical treatment as standard (i.e. nonreprise) fragments. Assuming that standard fragmentary answers and questions are remnants of an ellipsis operation that applies to a clause, this entails that reprise fragments are also remnants of clausal ellipsis. We show that the prevailing approach to standard frag…
Short sources, islandhood, and pronominal correlates
This paper focuses on multiple sluicing (MS) utterances in which the antecedent for sluicing is syntactically complex, insofar as it contains at least one embedded clause. Complex antecedent MS (henceforth caMS) is subject to the clausemate condition (CC). Phrased in sententialist terms, the CC bans sluiced wh-phrases from being base-generated in different finite clauses in the elliptic clause. Under specific conditions, it seems that the CC is o…
An experimental syntax approach to British English do ellipsis
Researchers have reported that British English do (also called ‘propredicate do ’) is permitted in only a subset of the syntactic configurations that permit standard VP / post-auxiliary ellipsis in English. Problematically, the reliability of the acceptability judgment data underlying all prior generative research on British English do ellipsis is not guaranteed. This situation transpires because these data were collected informally, which is not…
Computer Science (12 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works) · Ellipsis (linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works)