Judith Aissen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 733581 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Judith Aissen |
| NOMBRES | Judith |
| APELLIDO | Aissen |
| FIRMA | AISSEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 339 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Possessor extraction and categorical subject in Tseltalan
The Tseltalan (Mayan) languages, Tsotsil and Tseltal, have two options for extracting the possessor in wh-questions. Wh-movement can either move the entire possessive phrase (‘pied piping’) or it can move the possessor alone, stranding the possessum. Each option is associated with restrictions related to the specificity of the possessum: stranding is possible only when the possessum is non-specific, pied-piping only when it is specific. We focus …
Nominalization and the Expression of Manner in K'iche
Although K’iche’ (Mayan) has most of the usual interrogative wh-expressions (ones corresponding to ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, etc.), it lacks one corresponding to English ‘how’ and must therefore use various work-arounds to express questions of manner and method. This article analyzes one of these work-arounds, a construction that looks nonfinite but that various diagnostics show must be finite. The authors argue that the basic construction involves…
Complement Clauses
Complement clauses are clauses which function as arguments of higher predicates. Within the broader domain of complex structures, they are distinct from clauses which function as adjuncts (adverbial clauses and relative clauses) or as conjuncts. They are also distinct from monoclausal structures with multiple predicates, as in serialization and secondary predication. None of these are discussed here. Higher predicates sometimes become grammaticiz…
Information Structure in Mayan
The study of information structure in Mayan has proceeded in tandem with the study of morphology and syntax. This is hardly surprising, given the range of morphosyntactic devices that are harnessed by the various languages to encode information structure relations. Such devices include word order, voice, and agreement, as well as specialized syntactic constructions and morphology. A sensitivity to the status of elements in the ‘flow’ of informati…
The Mayan Languages
Mayan Languages
Clause Reduction in Spanish
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 1-30
The Proper Formulation of the Spurious-se Rule in Spanish
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp. 1-15
Lexical Extension and Grammatical Transformations
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 238-249
Hypothesis a / Hypothesis B
Remarks on description and explanation in grammar
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Differential Coding, Partial Blocking, and Bidirectional OT
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Differential Object Marking
Optimality and Functionality
Markedness and Subject Choice in Optimality Theory
Agent Focus and Inverse in Tzotzil
Many Mayan languages use a special verb form, the agent focus form, when extracting the subject of a transitive clause. These verbs have a cluster of properties that have resisted satisfactory analysis. This article suggests that in Tzotzil, agent focus verbs are inverse, in the sense of Algonquian linguistics, and that their distribution is determined by the relative obviation status of agent and patient. Evidence for the analysis comes from syn…
On the Syntax of Obviation
This article explores the idea that obviation systems like those found in the Algonquian languages are a less parochial solution to syntactic organization than is generally thought. Some simple constraints on obviation provide interesting analyses of key facts in Algonquian. Once certain language-particular differences are recognized, a number of syntactic problems in two unrelated languages, Tzotzil (Mayan) and Chamorro (Western Austronesian), y…
Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil
Voice and Inversion
The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary
Topic and Focus in Mayan
Most Mayan languages are 'basically' predicate-initial, but various phrases occur before the predicate when they are focussed or topicalized. This paper assumes the framework of Chomsky 1986 and presents a phrase-structural analysis of topic and focus for three Mayan languages (Tzotzil, Jakaltek, Tz'utujil). Three distinct entities are distinguished: the focus and two types of topic, termed here 'internal' and 'external'. Each is argued to occupy…
Agreement Controllers and Tzotzil Comitatives
Certain structures containing comitatives appear to be counterexamples to the claim that only superficial constituents control agreement. Earlier treatments have given up the requirement that such controllers be superficial constituents in order to preserve the generalization that controllers are always constituents. In these analyses, the superficial nonconstituent controller corresponds to a deep constituent. In Tzotzil there is a better analys…
The Nature of Syntactic Representation
Control and Command in Tzotzil Purpose Clauses
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 559-571
Transformational-Generative Grammar
Topic and Focus in Mayan
Most Mayan languages are 'basically' predicate-initial, but various phrases occur before the predicate when they are focussed or topicalized. This paper assumes the framework of Chomsky 1986 and presents a phrase-structural analysis of topic and focus for three Mayan languages (Tzotzil, Jakaltek, Tz'utujil). Three distinct entities are distinguished: the focus and two types of topic, termed here 'internal' and 'external'. Each is argued to occupy…
Differential Object Marking
On the Syntax of Obviation
This article explores the idea that obviation systems like those found in the Algonquian languages are a less parochial solution to syntactic organization than is generally thought. Some simple constraints on obviation provide interesting analyses of key facts in Algonquian. Once certain language-particular differences are recognized, a number of syntactic problems in two unrelated languages, Tzotzil (Mayan) and Chamorro (Western Austronesian), y…
Agent Focus and Inverse in Tzotzil
Many Mayan languages use a special verb form, the agent focus form, when extracting the subject of a transitive clause. These verbs have a cluster of properties that have resisted satisfactory analysis. This article suggests that in Tzotzil, agent focus verbs are inverse, in the sense of Algonquian linguistics, and that their distribution is determined by the relative obviation status of agent and patient. Evidence for the analysis comes from syn…
Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil
Optimality and Functionality
Agreement Controllers and Tzotzil Comitatives
Certain structures containing comitatives appear to be counterexamples to the claim that only superficial constituents control agreement. Earlier treatments have given up the requirement that such controllers be superficial constituents in order to preserve the generalization that controllers are always constituents. In these analyses, the superficial nonconstituent controller corresponds to a deep constituent. In Tzotzil there is a better analys…
Transformational-Generative Grammar
The Structure of Jacaltec. Colette Grinevald Craig
Control and Command in Tzotzil Purpose Clauses
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 559-571
The Nature of Syntactic Representation
Agreement Controllers and Tzotzil Comitatives
Certain structures containing comitatives appear to be counterexamples to the claim that only superficial constituents control agreement. Earlier treatments have given up the requirement that such controllers be superficial constituents in order to preserve the generalization that controllers are always constituents. In these analyses, the superficial nonconstituent controller corresponds to a deep constituent. In Tzotzil there is a better analys…
The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary
Topic and Focus in Mayan
Most Mayan languages are 'basically' predicate-initial, but various phrases occur before the predicate when they are focussed or topicalized. This paper assumes the framework of Chomsky 1986 and presents a phrase-structural analysis of topic and focus for three Mayan languages (Tzotzil, Jakaltek, Tz'utujil). Three distinct entities are distinguished: the focus and two types of topic, termed here 'internal' and 'external'. Each is argued to occupy…
Pied-piping, abstract agreement, and functional projections in Tzotzil
Voice and Inversion
On the Syntax of Obviation
This article explores the idea that obviation systems like those found in the Algonquian languages are a less parochial solution to syntactic organization than is generally thought. Some simple constraints on obviation provide interesting analyses of key facts in Algonquian. Once certain language-particular differences are recognized, a number of syntactic problems in two unrelated languages, Tzotzil (Mayan) and Chamorro (Western Austronesian), y…
Markedness and Subject Choice in Optimality Theory
Agent Focus and Inverse in Tzotzil
Many Mayan languages use a special verb form, the agent focus form, when extracting the subject of a transitive clause. These verbs have a cluster of properties that have resisted satisfactory analysis. This article suggests that in Tzotzil, agent focus verbs are inverse, in the sense of Algonquian linguistics, and that their distribution is determined by the relative obviation status of agent and patient. Evidence for the analysis comes from syn…
Optimality and Functionality
Differential Coding, Partial Blocking, and Bidirectional OT
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Explanations (2003)
Differential Object Marking
Remarks on description and explanation in grammar
Preview this article: Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.28.3.07ais-1.gif
Hypothesis a / Hypothesis B
Clause Reduction in Spanish
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 1-30
The Proper Formulation of the Spurious-se Rule in Spanish
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp. 1-15
Lexical Extension and Grammatical Transformations
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 238-249
Complement Clauses
Complement clauses are clauses which function as arguments of higher predicates. Within the broader domain of complex structures, they are distinct from clauses which function as adjuncts (adverbial clauses and relative clauses) or as conjuncts. They are also distinct from monoclausal structures with multiple predicates, as in serialization and secondary predication. None of these are discussed here. Higher predicates sometimes become grammaticiz…
Information Structure in Mayan
The study of information structure in Mayan has proceeded in tandem with the study of morphology and syntax. This is hardly surprising, given the range of morphosyntactic devices that are harnessed by the various languages to encode information structure relations. Such devices include word order, voice, and agreement, as well as specialized syntactic constructions and morphology. A sensitivity to the status of elements in the ‘flow’ of informati…
The Mayan Languages
Mayan Languages
Nominalization and the Expression of Manner in K'iche
Although K’iche’ (Mayan) has most of the usual interrogative wh-expressions (ones corresponding to ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, etc.), it lacks one corresponding to English ‘how’ and must therefore use various work-arounds to express questions of manner and method. This article analyzes one of these work-arounds, a construction that looks nonfinite but that various diagnostics show must be finite. The authors argue that the basic construction involves…
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