Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Biographic Data
| ID | 702644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zygmunt |
| FAMILY NAME | Frajzyngier |
| SIGNATURE | FRAJZYNGIER Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8818-8241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Minimal participant structure of the event and the emergence of the argument/adjunct distinction
The present study answers the following questions: why the semantic roles of agent or patient are often unmarked; why other semantic roles, such as benefactive, stative locative, goal, or source, are unmarked when used with some verbs and marked when used with other verbs; and why semantic relations such as ‘associative’, ‘instrumental’, ‘reason’, ‘purpose’, and others often referred to as ‘adjuncts’ are usually marked. The study, based on Sino-R…
Meaning encoded in the grammatical system: A rejoinder
Toward a functional typology of adpositions: Theoretical implications
It is widely accepted that adpositions are used to code the relationship between noun phrases and the relationship between noun phrases and predicates. The present study demonstrates that adpositions are also a coding means for several functions unrelated to the role of noun phrases in the clause and unrelated to the relationship between noun phrases. The following distinct functions of adpositions are added to the existing typologies: 1. Coding …
Functional Domains, Functions, and the Notion of Complexity: The Systems of Reference
The present study addresses the issues of (1) how to define complexity in the study of functions, (2) how to measure complexity in the study of functions, and (3) the benefits of the notion of semantic complexity in the analysis of language. This argues for a metric of complexity narrowed to single domains, something that has been already mentioned in some other studies. Such measures of complexity can then point to areas of further studies, both…
Emerging Phonology Under Language Contact: The Case of Sino-Russian Idiolects
The main aim of this study is to examine what kind of phonological system emerges because of language contact wherein adult speakers of L1 (Chinese) attempt to speak L2 (Russian) without any previous instruction in L2. The main findings of this study are as follows: a) The speakers of L1 largely adopt the phonetic inventory and phonotactics of L2 and b) the only underlying (distinctive) features in the emerging phonological system are those of pl…
Reference system in modern Mandarin Chinese
The present study is an attempt at a comprehensive presentation of various functions in the reference system of Mandarin Chinese. The study demonstrates that the reference system of Mandarin consists of a finite number of functions, some of which have not been identified as such, namely: absence of instructions to identify the referent, marked by bare nouns (sometimes analyzed as ‘indetermined’); presentation of an entity as not requiring identif…
Information Structure and Reference Systems: Toward a Non-Aprioristic Typology
The present article proposes a non-aprioristic approach to analyzing the domains of information structure and reference systems. The article is inspired by the papers in Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective (Fernandez-Vest and Van Valin (eds.), 2016), and from my own research on languages for which only spoken data exist. As an outcome of this study it may turn out that ‘information structure’ and ‘refere…
Inflectional markers of sentential parsing
What Motivates Morphological Copying: A Review article of Martine Vanhove, Thomas Stolz, Aina Urdze, and Hitomi Otsuka (eds.). 2012: ‘Morphologies in Contact’
Based on the papers included in the reviewed volume, this article puts forward a number of questions that are important for the theory of language change under contact. While there exist reliable methodologies to determine whether a given form represents the effect of language contact or not, and a slightly less reliable methodologies to establish whether a given function is a product of language contact, there is a relative paucity of studies di…
Indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic: A typological sketch
The aim of the present study is to propose, for the first time, a typology of the forms and functions related to the indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic languages. Some languages have grammaticalized only the indirect object predication; others have grammaticalized the indirect object and the benefactive predication; and still other languages have not grammaticalized either of the predications, leaving the relevant semantic rel…
Ergativity, Number, and Agreement
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 96-106
The verb and related areal features in West Africa
Language-Internal versus Contact-Induced Change: The Split Coding of Person and Number: A Stefan Elders Question
The aim of this study is to contribute to the methodology for determining whether a given characteristic of a language is a product of language contact or of language-internal grammaticalization. We have taken as a test problem a formal structure that is relatively rare across languages but that occurs in a few geographically proximate languages belonging to different families. The presence of a typologically rare phenomenon in neighboring but un…
The Principle of Indirect Means in language use and language structure
Motion, direction and location in languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Reflexives: Forms and functionsVolume 1
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause. The present volume offers an approach to reflexi…
Reflexives: Forms and functions. Volume 1
Domains of point of view and coreferentiality: System interaction approach to the study of reflexives
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A Case Study in Chadic
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-2 May, 1987
The de dicto domain in language
Implications sémantiques dans les langues naturelles
That-clauses and other complements
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and methodologies of general linguistics. The papers included in the volume should therefore be of interest to a general linguist as much as to the Chadicist or a spe…
The Principle of Indirect Means in language use and language structure
That-clauses and other complements
On the Origin of Say and Se as Complementizers in Black English and English-Based Creoles
S EVERAL LINGUISTS WORKING on black English have noted the use of the complementizer say; a typical example of this (Rickford 1977, p. 212): They told me say they couldn't get it. In the Gullah dialect this complementizer occurs more frequently and with a wider variety of verbs, e.g., I hear say-, He think say-, We know say(Dillard 1972, p. 121). Dillard has noted the occurrence of this complementizer only among the older speakers of black Englis…
Some rules concerning vowels in Chadic
The purpose of this paper is to show that one of the characteristics of the Chadic languages is the existence of two types of phonological rules affecting vowels. One type of rule operates on the vowels of the stem when a suffix is added and another type of rule operates on the vowel of the suffix itself. The latter type is triggered by the syllabic structure and/or the height of the vowels of the stem
Language-Internal versus Contact-Induced Change: The Split Coding of Person and Number: A Stefan Elders Question
The aim of this study is to contribute to the methodology for determining whether a given characteristic of a language is a product of language contact or of language-internal grammaticalization. We have taken as a test problem a formal structure that is relatively rare across languages but that occurs in a few geographically proximate languages belonging to different families. The presence of a typologically rare phenomenon in neighboring but un…
Lowering rules in Chadic
In Frajzyngier (1981) I attempted to reconstruct vowel-raising and vowellowering rules in Chadic. Vowel-raising rules were found in three branches of Chadic, and they operated under similar conditions, viz., vowels of the stem were raised when there was a high vowel added in the suffix. Vowel-lowering rules were found in two branches of Chadic, but I could not reconstruct them as being part of Proto-Chadic because they were essentially different …
On the form and function of pre-pronominal markers in Chadic
There are several problems intimately connected with pronominal affixes in Chadic. These problems may be connected with each other and an explanation of one may possibly shed some light on other problems. The following problems will be discussed in the present paper:(a) In several languages there exist pre-pronominal markers whose function is poorly understood. I will illustrate this problem in the example of Hausa, because it is the most familia…
An analysis of be-passives
An analysis of be-passives
Some rules concerning vowels in Chadic
The purpose of this paper is to show that one of the characteristics of the Chadic languages is the existence of two types of phonological rules affecting vowels. One type of rule operates on the vowels of the stem when a suffix is added and another type of rule operates on the vowel of the suffix itself. The latter type is triggered by the syllabic structure and/or the height of the vowels of the stem
On the form and function of pre-pronominal markers in Chadic
There are several problems intimately connected with pronominal affixes in Chadic. These problems may be connected with each other and an explanation of one may possibly shed some light on other problems. The following problems will be discussed in the present paper:(a) In several languages there exist pre-pronominal markers whose function is poorly understood. I will illustrate this problem in the example of Hausa, because it is the most familia…
On the Origin of Say and Se as Complementizers in Black English and English-Based Creoles
S EVERAL LINGUISTS WORKING on black English have noted the use of the complementizer say; a typical example of this (Rickford 1977, p. 212): They told me say they couldn't get it. In the Gullah dialect this complementizer occurs more frequently and with a wider variety of verbs, e.g., I hear say-, He think say-, We know say(Dillard 1972, p. 121). Dillard has noted the occurrence of this complementizer only among the older speakers of black Englis…
Truth and the Indicative Sentence
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From Preposition to Copula
Lowering rules in Chadic
In Frajzyngier (1981) I attempted to reconstruct vowel-raising and vowellowering rules in Chadic. Vowel-raising rules were found in three branches of Chadic, and they operated under similar conditions, viz., vowels of the stem were raised when there was a high vowel added in the suffix. Vowel-lowering rules were found in two branches of Chadic, but I could not reconstruct them as being part of Proto-Chadic because they were essentially different …
The relative clause in Proto-Chadic
Truth and the Compositionality Principle: A Reply to Palmer
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From verb to anaphora
A Case of Poetic Transplant: "A Cuban Song in "Kwiaty polskie
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Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1–2 May 1987
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and methodologies of general linguistics. The papers included in the volume should therefore be of interest to a general linguist as much as to the Chadicist or a spe…
Les verbaux du dangaléat de l'est (Guera, Tchad)
The de dicto domain in language
Implications sémantiques dans les langues naturelles
That-clauses and other complements
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics
Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-2 May, 1987
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A Case Study in Chadic
Reflexives: Forms and functionsVolume 1
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause. The present volume offers an approach to reflexi…
Reflexives: Forms and functions. Volume 1
Domains of point of view and coreferentiality: System interaction approach to the study of reflexives
Motion, direction and location in languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The Principle of Indirect Means in language use and language structure
Language-Internal versus Contact-Induced Change: The Split Coding of Person and Number: A Stefan Elders Question
The aim of this study is to contribute to the methodology for determining whether a given characteristic of a language is a product of language contact or of language-internal grammaticalization. We have taken as a test problem a formal structure that is relatively rare across languages but that occurs in a few geographically proximate languages belonging to different families. The presence of a typologically rare phenomenon in neighboring but un…
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