Luke James Adamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5890096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke James Adamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke James |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamson |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMSON L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0952-6001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gender allosemy in Greek
A recent hypothesis explored within the Distributed Morphology literature is that meaning-based alternations can be grammatically conditioned, being subject to principles familiar from contextual allomorphy. On the basis of a case study of the Greek gender system, we argue that this CONTEXTUAL ALLOSEMY is like allomorphy in being locally constrained and applying elsewhere ordering, and most novelly, we argue that it interacts with semanticopragma…
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian
This work investigates the morphosyntax of nominal expressions in Standard Italian that have multiple adjectives in “split coordination,” which permits a plural noun to be modified by singular adjectives, for example le mani destra e sinistra (the hand. pl left. sg and right. sg ). The proposal is (i) that these expressions are built from multidominant structures, with a constituent shared by the conjuncts, and (ii) that plural marking on the nou…
Polite Pronouns and the PCC
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) has played a substantial role in the development of linguistic theory in recent decades, particularly with respect to agreement and the encoding of person (Anagnostopoulou 2017a and references therein). While much of the generative literature on the PCC advances or assumes a (morpho)syntactic agreement-based account of PCC effects, we provide novel evidence from polite pronouns that challenges this perspective. Po…
Gender assignment is local
The grammatical gender of a noun can be sensitive to a number of different factors, including the noun’s lexical semantics, nominalizing morphology, or arbitrary requirements imposed by particular roots (e.g. Corbett 1991, Kramer 2020), though the limits on possible factors are not currently understood, with some work proposing that a noun’s gender can even be valued ‘at a distance’ via agreement with other nominals. The current study explores th…
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages
Many three-gendered languages have in common that some nouns are assigned conceptual gender – where the value of gender correlates with the interpretation of the noun – while other nouns are assigned arbitrary gender – where there is no such correlation. Strikingly, however, such languages do not always pattern together in how they resolve agreement with gender-mismatched coordinated nominals. If coordination resolution reflects feature represent…
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Gender assignment is local
The grammatical gender of a noun can be sensitive to a number of different factors, including the noun’s lexical semantics, nominalizing morphology, or arbitrary requirements imposed by particular roots (e.g. Corbett 1991, Kramer 2020), though the limits on possible factors are not currently understood, with some work proposing that a noun’s gender can even be valued ‘at a distance’ via agreement with other nominals. The current study explores th…
Gender Features and Coordination Resolution in Greek and Other Three-Gendered Languages
Many three-gendered languages have in common that some nouns are assigned conceptual gender – where the value of gender correlates with the interpretation of the noun – while other nouns are assigned arbitrary gender – where there is no such correlation. Strikingly, however, such languages do not always pattern together in how they resolve agreement with gender-mismatched coordinated nominals. If coordination resolution reflects feature represent…
Gender allosemy in Greek
A recent hypothesis explored within the Distributed Morphology literature is that meaning-based alternations can be grammatically conditioned, being subject to principles familiar from contextual allomorphy. On the basis of a case study of the Greek gender system, we argue that this CONTEXTUAL ALLOSEMY is like allomorphy in being locally constrained and applying elsewhere ordering, and most novelly, we argue that it interacts with semanticopragma…
Split coordination with adjectives in Italian
This work investigates the morphosyntax of nominal expressions in Standard Italian that have multiple adjectives in “split coordination,” which permits a plural noun to be modified by singular adjectives, for example le mani destra e sinistra (the hand. pl left. sg and right. sg ). The proposal is (i) that these expressions are built from multidominant structures, with a constituent shared by the conjuncts, and (ii) that plural marking on the nou…
Polite Pronouns and the PCC
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) has played a substantial role in the development of linguistic theory in recent decades, particularly with respect to agreement and the encoding of person (Anagnostopoulou 2017a and references therein). While much of the generative literature on the PCC advances or assumes a (morpho)syntactic agreement-based account of PCC effects, we provide novel evidence from polite pronouns that challenges this perspective. Po…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Gender Studies in Language (2 works) · Grammatical Gender (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Alienation (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)