Alexander Grosu
Biographic Data
| ID | 737554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Grosu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Grosu |
| SIGNATURE | GROSU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2052-603X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A fresh look at the so-called 'transparent free relatives'
This paper pursues two twin goals: [i] To refine proposals in Grosu (2016) concerning the characterization and analysis of nominal-argumental ‘transparent free relatives’ (‘TFRs’), and [ii] to strengthen Grosu’s (2016) argumentation against an alternative approach to TFRs
A note on the gifted mathematician that you claim to be
The syntax and semantics of Japanese internally- and doubly-headed relatives
This paper proposes novel syntactic and semantic analyses of Japanese IHRCs and of a variety of DHRCs labelled ‘integrated.’ The analyses differ non-trivially from all earlier analyses known to us, both in orientation and in technical implementation, and their principal raison d’être is to capture, with minimal appeal to stipulation, the ways in which these two constructions differ from each other, from other relative constructions of Japanese, a…
Amount Relatives
We introduce amount relatives by discussing three types of relatives: those with a lexically realized amount head (d‐headed relatives); those without such a head, but with an amount interpretation (d‐interpreted relatives); and relatives with an individual interpretation, but with the gap in a position that does not support an individual variable (ep‐relatives). We discuss in some depth several diagnostic tests, which distinguish these types of r…
A quantificational disclosure approach to Japanese and Korean internally headed relatives
Towards a More Articulated Typology of Internally Headed Relative Constructions: The Semantics Connection
This article outlines the shortcomings found in two well-known syntax-based typologies of internally headed relative constructions (IHRCs), and demonstrates the benefits of a typology that relies on the syntax-semantics interface and takes semantics seriously into account. It is argued that the latter approach yields a more revealing and empirically superior typology of IHRCs
The status of the internally-headed relatives of Japanese/Korean within the typology of definite relatives
Two Kinds of Degree-denoting Relatives: Hebrew versus Romanian
This paper conducts a contrastive study of Hebrew and Romanian, with supporting data from additional languages, which pursues both descriptive and theoretical goals. On the descriptive level, it draws attention to a hitherto unnoticed and unanalyzed construction that has so far been detected in Romanian and Albanian only, and which although superficially similar to a kind of degree-denoting relative construction that is widely attested cross-ling…
Reply to Bhatt and Pancheva's “Late Merger of Degree Clauses: The Irrelevance of (Non)conservativity
According to Bhatt and Pancheva (2004), two effects they attribute to degree constructions (obligatory extraposition effects and scope rigidity effects determined by the superficial position of degree phrases/clauses) can be given a unified analysis in terms of an extension of Fox and Nissenbaum's (1999) analysis of extraposition in conjunction with the nonconservativity of (certain) degree words. We show that, under full preservation of Bhatt an…
A Unified Theory of `Standard' and `Transparent' Free Relatives
Strange Relatives of the Third Kind
The Chomskyan turn
Language change in child and adult Hebrew: A psycholinguistic perspective
On an asymmetry in the distribution of island constraints
On the distribution of genitive phrases in Rumanian
On the Notion “Head”: Evidence From Free Relatives and Interrogatives
Pied Piping and the Matching Parameter
On non-finiteness in extraction constructions
Subcategorization and Parallelism
Subcategorization and Parallelism
An Analogical Approach to Noun Clause Distribution
Approaches to Island Phenomena
The Extragrammatical Content of Certain “Island Constraints”
On the Analogical Extension of Rule Domains
Essays on Form and Interpretation
Strange Relatives of the Third Kind
A Unified Theory of `Standard' and `Transparent' Free Relatives
On non-finiteness in extraction constructions
Language change in child and adult Hebrew: A psycholinguistic perspective
On the distribution of genitive phrases in Rumanian
Constraints on the Distribution of NP Clauses
Five earlier accounts of a certain class of restrictions barring noun clauses from environments that are in some sense ‘internal’ are argued to be empirically deficient in a number of ways. An alternative proposal is put forward with a view to (i) remedying the empirical inadequacies of the earlier analyses and (ii) predicting what types of languages exhibit the restrictions at issue. It is further argued that the proposed alternative restriction…
On the Status of the So-Called Right Roof Constraint
The proposal made in Ross 1967, that transformations which move elements to the right are upward-bounded, is falsified by certain coordination reductions and certain pseudo-cleft constructions. Rightward movements are universally constrained by two weaker BEHAVIORAL RESTRICTIONS: (a) non-constituents are harder to keep in mind than constituents, and (b) two interrupted sequences which begin separately must not be separately continued. The second …
Towards a More Articulated Typology of Internally Headed Relative Constructions: The Semantics Connection
This article outlines the shortcomings found in two well-known syntax-based typologies of internally headed relative constructions (IHRCs), and demonstrates the benefits of a typology that relies on the syntax-semantics interface and takes semantics seriously into account. It is argued that the latter approach yields a more revealing and empirically superior typology of IHRCs
Reply to Bhatt and Pancheva's “Late Merger of Degree Clauses: The Irrelevance of (Non)conservativity
According to Bhatt and Pancheva (2004), two effects they attribute to degree constructions (obligatory extraposition effects and scope rigidity effects determined by the superficial position of degree phrases/clauses) can be given a unified analysis in terms of an extension of Fox and Nissenbaum's (1999) analysis of extraposition in conjunction with the nonconservativity of (certain) degree words. We show that, under full preservation of Bhatt an…
On an asymmetry in the distribution of island constraints
Generative Phonologie und indogermanische Lautgeschichte
On the Status of the So-Called Right Roof Constraint
The proposal made in Ross 1967, that transformations which move elements to the right are upward-bounded, is falsified by certain coordination reductions and certain pseudo-cleft constructions. Rightward movements are universally constrained by two weaker BEHAVIORAL RESTRICTIONS: (a) non-constituents are harder to keep in mind than constituents, and (b) two interrupted sequences which begin separately must not be separately continued. The second …
On the Status of Positionally-Defined Constraints in Syntax
Towards a realistic model of the human language faculty
Constraints on the Distribution of NP Clauses
Five earlier accounts of a certain class of restrictions barring noun clauses from environments that are in some sense ‘internal’ are argued to be empirically deficient in a number of ways. An alternative proposal is put forward with a view to (i) remedying the empirical inadequacies of the earlier analyses and (ii) predicting what types of languages exhibit the restrictions at issue. It is further argued that the proposed alternative restriction…
Essays on Form and Interpretation
On the Analogical Extension of Rule Domains
The Extragrammatical Content of Certain “Island Constraints”
An Analogical Approach to Noun Clause Distribution
Approaches to Island Phenomena
Subcategorization and Parallelism
Subcategorization and Parallelism
On the Notion “Head”: Evidence From Free Relatives and Interrogatives
Pied Piping and the Matching Parameter
On non-finiteness in extraction constructions
On an asymmetry in the distribution of island constraints
On the distribution of genitive phrases in Rumanian
Language change in child and adult Hebrew: A psycholinguistic perspective
The Chomskyan turn
Strange Relatives of the Third Kind
A Unified Theory of `Standard' and `Transparent' Free Relatives
Reply to Bhatt and Pancheva's “Late Merger of Degree Clauses: The Irrelevance of (Non)conservativity
According to Bhatt and Pancheva (2004), two effects they attribute to degree constructions (obligatory extraposition effects and scope rigidity effects determined by the superficial position of degree phrases/clauses) can be given a unified analysis in terms of an extension of Fox and Nissenbaum's (1999) analysis of extraposition in conjunction with the nonconservativity of (certain) degree words. We show that, under full preservation of Bhatt an…
Two Kinds of Degree-denoting Relatives: Hebrew versus Romanian
This paper conducts a contrastive study of Hebrew and Romanian, with supporting data from additional languages, which pursues both descriptive and theoretical goals. On the descriptive level, it draws attention to a hitherto unnoticed and unanalyzed construction that has so far been detected in Romanian and Albanian only, and which although superficially similar to a kind of degree-denoting relative construction that is widely attested cross-ling…
The status of the internally-headed relatives of Japanese/Korean within the typology of definite relatives
A quantificational disclosure approach to Japanese and Korean internally headed relatives
Computer Science (22 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Linguistics (21 works) · Mathematics (14 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (6 works)