Mark De Vries
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark De Vries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vries |
| SIGNATURE | DE VRIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are there different kinds of appositive relative clauses
In his latest book on relative clauses, Cinque claims that there are two fundamentally different kinds of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses. The unintegrated ones are the typical English type, the integrated ones are found in various languages, including Chinese and Japanese. This second type shares some characteristics with restrictive relatives, and seems to require a different syntactic analysis. Some languages, like Italian, suppo…
Interpreting idioms in a second language: The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers
How do people understand figurative speech in a foreign language? What strategies do they use? By means of an online questionnaire, this study investigated to what extent contextual information and transfer play a role in the interpretation of idioms in a second language, controlling for familiarity. Sixty-one native speakers of Dutch were asked to guess the correct interpretation of English idioms with and without a Dutch equivalent, presented w…
Parenthesis: Syntactic Integration or Orphanage? A Rejoinder to
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…
Across‐the‐Board Phenomena
Across‐the‐Board (ATB) phenomena in linguistics, can generally be defined as one‐to‐many correspondences. Standard examples involve wh ‐extraction out of two or more coordinated clauses or phrases at once, as in Which teacher did John like _ and Sue hate _? Such configurations violate an otherwise valid bi‐uniqueness principle: an antecedent licenses one and only one dependent element; furthermore, they are at variance with the alleged island sta…
Right-dislocation as deletion
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 …
Locality and right-dislocation
Right-dislocation constructions, including backgrounding and specificational afterthoughts, are subject to various limitations. Dislocated phrases themselves are islands for extraction. Moreover, there are proximity effects between dislocated phrases and their correlate in the host clause. The main effect reduces to the regular constraints on A-bar movement. This is explained from the perspective of a biclausal analysis in which the dislocated ph…
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives: Evidence from Fragments and Ellipsis
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
Multidominance and locality
Thinking in the right direction: An ellipsis analysis of right-dislocation
We propose to analyze right-dislocation constructions in terms of clausal coordination, coupled with ellipsis. While neither rightward movement nor base-generation of backgrounded and afterthought phrases is descriptively accurate, we show that the facts follow straightforwardly on an analysis that takes the dislocated phrase to be the surface remnant of a second clause that is underlyingly parallel to the host clause and reduced by ellipsis at P…
Apparent nonlocality
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The left and right periphery in Dutch
This article discusses the information-structural status and the syntax of left and right dislocation constructions in Dutch. Four orthogonal information-structural features are proposed, and their distribution is systematically investigated. Furthermore, it is argued that hanging topic left dislocation, backgrounding right dislocation and afterthoughts are a particular kind of parenthesis. They do not involve movement, and do not show reconstruc…
Asymmetric Merge and Parataxis
I argue that syntactic structure encodes three types of asymmetries. The first corresponds to the asymmetry between mother and daughters nodes that is called dominance, that is, syntactic hierarchy. The second is the selectional asymmetry between sister nodes, which is translated into the precedence relation in the phonological component. The third, called behindance , is an alternative to dominance, and corresponds to parataxis. Parenthesis, coo…
Dislocation and backgrounding
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Reported direct speech in Dutch
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The Syntax of Appositive Relativization: On Specifying Coordination, False Free Relatives, and Promotion
Appositive relative clauses differ in some essential respects from restrictive relative clauses. I argue that appositive relatives and appositions can be put together as a third class of coordination denoting specification. Thus, an appositive relative is a specifying conjunct to the visible antecedent. It is a semifree relative with a pronominal head that is normally empty. Therefore, its internal syntax is equivalent to that of restrictive rela…
The Fall and Rise of Universals on Relativization
This article discusses linguistic universals concerning relative clause constructions, which are relatively well-studied, both by typologists and theoreticians. It turns out that several universal statements formulated in the past—e.g., in Downing’s (1978) seminal work— must be weakened to tendencies or less on the basis of present knowledge. Following Odden (2003), statistical universals are rejected for the reason that cross-linguistic statisti…
Merge: Properties and boundary conditions
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Head-internal relative clauses in Dutch
In Dutch, relative clauses are postnominal (as in English). Therefore, the existence of the two constructions illustrated in (1a/b) is remarkable: (1) a Welke onverlaat zoiets doet, krijgt straf. which miscreant such.a.thing does, gets punishment
Three-dimensional grammar
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Patterns of relative clauses
For most (western) linguists a typical example of a relative clause would be like the following example: (1) Please hand this over to the man who is wearing a red jacket. Here the man is a definite nominal antecedent, who a relative pronoun (referring
Appositive relative clauses
The difference between restrictive and appositive relativization is usually represented in syntax as complementation versus adjunction with respect to the antecedent noun. Instead I propose that an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent. This approach avoids problems that come with
The Syntax of Appositive Relativization: On Specifying Coordination, False Free Relatives, and Promotion
Appositive relative clauses differ in some essential respects from restrictive relative clauses. I argue that appositive relatives and appositions can be put together as a third class of coordination denoting specification. Thus, an appositive relative is a specifying conjunct to the visible antecedent. It is a semifree relative with a pronominal head that is normally empty. Therefore, its internal syntax is equivalent to that of restrictive rela…
Right-dislocation as deletion
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives: Evidence from Fragments and Ellipsis
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
Multidominance and locality
Parenthesis: Syntactic Integration or Orphanage? A Rejoinder to
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…
Appositive relative clauses
The difference between restrictive and appositive relativization is usually represented in syntax as complementation versus adjunction with respect to the antecedent noun. Instead I propose that an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent. This approach avoids problems that come with
Patterns of relative clauses
For most (western) linguists a typical example of a relative clause would be like the following example: (1) Please hand this over to the man who is wearing a red jacket. Here the man is a definite nominal antecedent, who a relative pronoun (referring
Three-dimensional grammar
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Head-internal relative clauses in Dutch
In Dutch, relative clauses are postnominal (as in English). Therefore, the existence of the two constructions illustrated in (1a/b) is remarkable: (1) a Welke onverlaat zoiets doet, krijgt straf. which miscreant such.a.thing does, gets punishment
The Fall and Rise of Universals on Relativization
This article discusses linguistic universals concerning relative clause constructions, which are relatively well-studied, both by typologists and theoreticians. It turns out that several universal statements formulated in the past—e.g., in Downing’s (1978) seminal work— must be weakened to tendencies or less on the basis of present knowledge. Following Odden (2003), statistical universals are rejected for the reason that cross-linguistic statisti…
Merge: Properties and boundary conditions
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Reported direct speech in Dutch
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The Syntax of Appositive Relativization: On Specifying Coordination, False Free Relatives, and Promotion
Appositive relative clauses differ in some essential respects from restrictive relative clauses. I argue that appositive relatives and appositions can be put together as a third class of coordination denoting specification. Thus, an appositive relative is a specifying conjunct to the visible antecedent. It is a semifree relative with a pronominal head that is normally empty. Therefore, its internal syntax is equivalent to that of restrictive rela…
Dislocation and backgrounding
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Asymmetric Merge and Parataxis
I argue that syntactic structure encodes three types of asymmetries. The first corresponds to the asymmetry between mother and daughters nodes that is called dominance, that is, syntactic hierarchy. The second is the selectional asymmetry between sister nodes, which is translated into the precedence relation in the phonological component. The third, called behindance , is an alternative to dominance, and corresponds to parataxis. Parenthesis, coo…
The left and right periphery in Dutch
This article discusses the information-structural status and the syntax of left and right dislocation constructions in Dutch. Four orthogonal information-structural features are proposed, and their distribution is systematically investigated. Furthermore, it is argued that hanging topic left dislocation, backgrounding right dislocation and afterthoughts are a particular kind of parenthesis. They do not involve movement, and do not show reconstruc…
Apparent nonlocality
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Thinking in the right direction: An ellipsis analysis of right-dislocation
We propose to analyze right-dislocation constructions in terms of clausal coordination, coupled with ellipsis. While neither rightward movement nor base-generation of backgrounded and afterthought phrases is descriptively accurate, we show that the facts follow straightforwardly on an analysis that takes the dislocated phrase to be the surface remnant of a second clause that is underlyingly parallel to the host clause and reduced by ellipsis at P…
Locality and right-dislocation
Right-dislocation constructions, including backgrounding and specificational afterthoughts, are subject to various limitations. Dislocated phrases themselves are islands for extraction. Moreover, there are proximity effects between dislocated phrases and their correlate in the host clause. The main effect reduces to the regular constraints on A-bar movement. This is explained from the perspective of a biclausal analysis in which the dislocated ph…
The Syntactic Integration of Appositives: Evidence from Fragments and Ellipsis
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
Multidominance and locality
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 …
Right-dislocation as deletion
Across‐the‐Board Phenomena
Across‐the‐Board (ATB) phenomena in linguistics, can generally be defined as one‐to‐many correspondences. Standard examples involve wh ‐extraction out of two or more coordinated clauses or phrases at once, as in Which teacher did John like _ and Sue hate _? Such configurations violate an otherwise valid bi‐uniqueness principle: an antecedent licenses one and only one dependent element; furthermore, they are at variance with the alleged island sta…
Parenthesis: Syntactic Integration or Orphanage? A Rejoinder to
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…
Interpreting idioms in a second language: The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers
How do people understand figurative speech in a foreign language? What strategies do they use? By means of an online questionnaire, this study investigated to what extent contextual information and transfer play a role in the interpretation of idioms in a second language, controlling for familiarity. Sixty-one native speakers of Dutch were asked to guess the correct interpretation of English idioms with and without a Dutch equivalent, presented w…
Are there different kinds of appositive relative clauses
In his latest book on relative clauses, Cinque claims that there are two fundamentally different kinds of appositive (non-restrictive) relative clauses. The unintegrated ones are the typical English type, the integrated ones are found in various languages, including Chinese and Japanese. This second type shares some characteristics with restrictive relatives, and seems to require a different syntactic analysis. Some languages, like Italian, suppo…
Linguistics (22 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (6 works) · Physics (6 works) · Sentence (6 works)