Alexandra Simonenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Simonenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonenko |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONENKO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Foundation - Flanders |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1353-6029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The evolution of possessive phrases and the rise of DP in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
This paper deals with the evolution of nominal expressions with prenominal possessives in Romance languages. Until now, the prevalent view has been that their historical development follows one of the two diachronic paths: either they stop co-occurring with determiners (French, Spanish) or they start requiring their presence (European Portuguese). One common analysis associates the first case with a transition from a modifier to a determiner sema…
Between demonstrative and definite
This article investigates the spread of the le / la / les -forms in the diachrony of French on the basis of large-scale corpora. It focuses on the issue of their “mixed” distribution viz. the observation that during a long period of time the le / la / les -forms in French do not pattern as either (anaphoric) demonstratives from which they originate (Late Latin ille ), nor as (uniqueness-based) definites, which they end up becoming in Modern Frenc…
Agreement syncretization and the loss of null subjects
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Agreement syncretization and the loss of null subjects
This paper examines the nature of the dependency between the availability of null subjects and the “richness” of verbal subject agreement, known as Taraldsen's Generalisation (Adams, 1987; Rizzi, 1986; Roberts, 2014; Taraldsen, 1980). We present a corpus-based quantitative model of the syncretization of verbal subject agreement spanning the Medieval French period and evaluate two hypotheses relating agreement and null subjects: one relating the t…
Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread of overt subjects and VO orders give the impression that there is a significant difference between the rates of development in prose vs. verse. By contrast…
Decomposing universal projection in questions
Revising a proposal by Guerzoni (2003), we propose to derive universal projectionof presuppositions in wh-questions, where attested, from a family of three felicity conditions onquestion use. Assuming that these felicity conditions can be violated under certain conditions,this proposal predicts a typology of contexts where universal projection can exceptionally beunattested. We propose that this prediction is correct, presenting a family of scena…
Factive islands and meaning-driven unacceptability
Semantics of DP Islands
This article provides a semantic–pragmatic answer to the question of why some definite DPs are islands for wh-subextraction while others are not. While it was suggested as early as in Chomsky (1973) that the key to the problem are differences between determiners involved, there has been no analysis which would be based on independently attested properties of the determiners. This article focuses on the contrast in wh-subextraction between DPs wit…
A Late Sarmatian Burial in the Central Donetsk Basin
Un tertre funeraire sarmate, decouvert pres de la ville de Mospino, dans le district de Makeievka, a ete fouille en 1988. L'auteur decrit ce tumulus et le mobilier qu'il contenait. Il traite de son attribution culturelle et de la datation du site
Late Sarmatian Bridle Set from Moldova
In 1985 the Budzhak expedition of the Moldovian Academy of Sciences examined a barrow group situa ted on the interflow of Yalpug and Lunguca rivers, 3.5 km to the south-west from village Kazaklia (district Tthadyr-Lunga, Republic of Moldova).There were barrows of different ages found in the group, from the Early Bronze to the Middle Age.The assemblage ex amined in this article was uncovered in barrow 14.After long years of intensive ploughing the…
Factive islands and meaning-driven unacceptability
Agreement syncretization and the loss of null subjects
This paper examines the nature of the dependency between the availability of null subjects and the “richness” of verbal subject agreement, known as Taraldsen's Generalisation (Adams, 1987; Rizzi, 1986; Roberts, 2014; Taraldsen, 1980). We present a corpus-based quantitative model of the syncretization of verbal subject agreement spanning the Medieval French period and evaluate two hypotheses relating agreement and null subjects: one relating the t…
Late Sarmatian Bridle Set from Moldova
In 1985 the Budzhak expedition of the Moldovian Academy of Sciences examined a barrow group situa ted on the interflow of Yalpug and Lunguca rivers, 3.5 km to the south-west from village Kazaklia (district Tthadyr-Lunga, Republic of Moldova).There were barrows of different ages found in the group, from the Early Bronze to the Middle Age.The assemblage ex amined in this article was uncovered in barrow 14.After long years of intensive ploughing the…
A Late Sarmatian Burial in the Central Donetsk Basin
Un tertre funeraire sarmate, decouvert pres de la ville de Mospino, dans le district de Makeievka, a ete fouille en 1988. L'auteur decrit ce tumulus et le mobilier qu'il contenait. Il traite de son attribution culturelle et de la datation du site
Semantics of DP Islands
This article provides a semantic–pragmatic answer to the question of why some definite DPs are islands for wh-subextraction while others are not. While it was suggested as early as in Chomsky (1973) that the key to the problem are differences between determiners involved, there has been no analysis which would be based on independently attested properties of the determiners. This article focuses on the contrast in wh-subextraction between DPs wit…
Text form and grammatical changes in Medieval French
This paper presents a treebank-based study of the effect the text form (prose vs. verse) has on the course of two grammatical changes in Medieval French: the loss of null subjects and the loss of OV word order. By means of statistical analysis, we demonstrate that naive estimates of the spread of overt subjects and VO orders give the impression that there is a significant difference between the rates of development in prose vs. verse. By contrast…
Decomposing universal projection in questions
Revising a proposal by Guerzoni (2003), we propose to derive universal projectionof presuppositions in wh-questions, where attested, from a family of three felicity conditions onquestion use. Assuming that these felicity conditions can be violated under certain conditions,this proposal predicts a typology of contexts where universal projection can exceptionally beunattested. We propose that this prediction is correct, presenting a family of scena…
Factive islands and meaning-driven unacceptability
Agreement syncretization and the loss of null subjects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Agreement syncretization and the loss of null subjects
This paper examines the nature of the dependency between the availability of null subjects and the “richness” of verbal subject agreement, known as Taraldsen's Generalisation (Adams, 1987; Rizzi, 1986; Roberts, 2014; Taraldsen, 1980). We present a corpus-based quantitative model of the syncretization of verbal subject agreement spanning the Medieval French period and evaluate two hypotheses relating agreement and null subjects: one relating the t…
Between demonstrative and definite
This article investigates the spread of the le / la / les -forms in the diachrony of French on the basis of large-scale corpora. It focuses on the issue of their “mixed” distribution viz. the observation that during a long period of time the le / la / les -forms in French do not pattern as either (anaphoric) demonstratives from which they originate (Late Latin ille ), nor as (uniqueness-based) definites, which they end up becoming in Modern Frenc…
The evolution of possessive phrases and the rise of DP in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
This paper deals with the evolution of nominal expressions with prenominal possessives in Romance languages. Until now, the prevalent view has been that their historical development follows one of the two diachronic paths: either they stop co-occurring with determiners (French, Spanish) or they start requiring their presence (European Portuguese). One common analysis associates the first case with a transition from a modifier to a determiner sema…
Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · History (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Grammar (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works)