Richard K Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 738864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard K Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard K |
| FAMILY NAME | Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5495-3446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”
English VP-preposing allows VP modifiers to remain on the right (John said he would arrive on Tuesday, and arrive he did, on Tuesday). The classic analysis of this invokes VP constituency, claiming that the modifiers are right-adjoined to VP and stranded by movement of a smaller VP ([VP arrive] he did [VP [VP arrive] on Tuesday]). This article proposes a radically different view based on the copy theory of movement (Chomsky 1993), wherein moved i…
Quantification, matching and events
Ezafe, PP and the nature of nominalization
Rethinking cartography
The CARTOGRAPHIC PROGRAM has investigated interesting crosslinguistic linear orderings among various sentence constituents. Its signature technical move is to postulate HIERARCHIES OF FUNCTIONAL PROJECTIONS related by functional selection. I note three problems that functional hierarchies encounter in capturing linear order: ‘explanation’, ‘plenitude’, and ‘rigidity’. I compare linearity in cartography with linearity in the integers, which involv…
Advances in Iranian Linguistics
This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of linguistic analysis of Iranian languages have expanded over the years. The contributions collected in this volume address advancing research and complex…
Superiority and Scope Freezing
David Lebeaux (cited in Larson 1990:603) observes that English double object constructions (DOCs) show “scope freezing” between the two objects. Quantified indirect and direct object arguments must be interpreted in their surface order (1a). Schneider-Zioga (1988) makes a similar observation about quantified arguments in the with-variant of spray-load constructions (1b); they also exhibit scope freezing.As noted in Larson 1990, scope freezing doe…
The AP Linguistics initiative
In May 2016, the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America approved formation of an ad hoc AP Linguistics Committee (APLC) to study the creation of an Advanced Placement Linguistics course and examination for US high schools. In January 2017, the APLC convened and voted to proceed with the drafting of a formal AP Linguistics proposal to the College Board and to take whatever preparatory steps were required in that process. In this …
Revisiting Article-S
The frst published account of relative clauses in generative grammar (Smith 1964) analyzed these elements as selected complements of the article or determiner in a nominal. In this paper we revisit the “Article-S” Analysis, examining its underlying assumptions about selection and structure and updating its technical implementation. In so doing we show that Article-S continues to be attractive from a syntactic and semantic point of view. We brieſt
On "Dative Idioms" in English
Appeals to idiom data have played an important role in arguments about the relation between English prepositional datives ( Mary gave a present to John) and double object forms ( Mary gave John a present).The claimed existence of idioms in both types has led researchers to conclude that the two constructions are independent, with no derivational relation between them. This article shows that the factual claims are mistaken: no English dative idio…
Psych verbs in English and Mandarin
On Shell Structure
This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light Predicate Raising" (1989), which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of "NP Shift" phenomena, and "The Projection of DP (…
Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…
On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives
October 01 2010 On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives In Special Collection: CogNet Richard K. Larson Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (4): 701–704. https://doi.org/10.1162…
Ezafe and the deep position of nominal modifiers
In languages exhibiting the Ezafe construction, such as Modern Persian, nominal modifiers generally follow the noun, and a large class of nominal modifiers, including APs, NPs, some PPs, but not relative clauses, require a “linking” element, referred to as Ezafe. Thus in (1a), the noun otaq ‘room’ is modified by the adjective phrase besyar kuchik ‘very small.’ The Ezafe vowel e appears in between, suffixed to the noun. In (1b), the noun xune ‘hou…
The semantics of the plural pronoun construction
On Indefinite Pronoun Structures with APs: Reply to Kishimoto
A number of authors have claimed that indefinite pronoun constructions like everything red are formed by raising a noun (thing) over a higher prenominal adjective (red). We examine phenomena in English and other languages which appear to show that adjectives participating in the indefinite pronoun construction do not correspond to prenominal forms, but to postnominal ones. We evaluate the challenges these results present for the N-raising account…
Time and Event Measure
In linguistic semantics durative adverbs like for two hours have typically been analyzed within the framework of internal semantics. Under that theory, sentences are evaluated with respect to time intervals, and temporal measure adverbs quantify over the parts of those intervals (see Dowty 1979, Taylor 1977
Temporal Adjectives and the Structure of Possessive DPs
Semantica
Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere …
Control and Grammar
Interpreted logical forms
Extraction and Multiple Selection in Pp
On the syntax of disjunction scope
On the syntax of disjunction scope
Interpreted logical forms
On Indefinite Pronoun Structures with APs: Reply to Kishimoto
A number of authors have claimed that indefinite pronoun constructions like everything red are formed by raising a noun (thing) over a higher prenominal adjective (red). We examine phenomena in English and other languages which appear to show that adjectives participating in the indefinite pronoun construction do not correspond to prenominal forms, but to postnominal ones. We evaluate the challenges these results present for the N-raising account…
On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives
October 01 2010 On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives In Special Collection: CogNet Richard K. Larson Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (4): 701–704. https://doi.org/10.1162…
Rethinking cartography
The CARTOGRAPHIC PROGRAM has investigated interesting crosslinguistic linear orderings among various sentence constituents. Its signature technical move is to postulate HIERARCHIES OF FUNCTIONAL PROJECTIONS related by functional selection. I note three problems that functional hierarchies encounter in capturing linear order: ‘explanation’, ‘plenitude’, and ‘rigidity’. I compare linearity in cartography with linearity in the integers, which involv…
On "Dative Idioms" in English
Appeals to idiom data have played an important role in arguments about the relation between English prepositional datives ( Mary gave a present to John) and double object forms ( Mary gave John a present).The claimed existence of idioms in both types has led researchers to conclude that the two constructions are independent, with no derivational relation between them. This article shows that the factual claims are mistaken: no English dative idio…
The semantics of the plural pronoun construction
Superiority and Scope Freezing
David Lebeaux (cited in Larson 1990:603) observes that English double object constructions (DOCs) show “scope freezing” between the two objects. Quantified indirect and direct object arguments must be interpreted in their surface order (1a). Schneider-Zioga (1988) makes a similar observation about quantified arguments in the with-variant of spray-load constructions (1b); they also exhibit scope freezing.As noted in Larson 1990, scope freezing doe…
The AP Linguistics initiative
In May 2016, the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America approved formation of an ad hoc AP Linguistics Committee (APLC) to study the creation of an Advanced Placement Linguistics course and examination for US high schools. In January 2017, the APLC convened and voted to proceed with the drafting of a formal AP Linguistics proposal to the College Board and to take whatever preparatory steps were required in that process. In this …
Psych verbs in English and Mandarin
Temporal Adjectives and the Structure of Possessive DPs
Revisiting Article-S
The frst published account of relative clauses in generative grammar (Smith 1964) analyzed these elements as selected complements of the article or determiner in a nominal. In this paper we revisit the “Article-S” Analysis, examining its underlying assumptions about selection and structure and updating its technical implementation. In so doing we show that Article-S continues to be attractive from a syntactic and semantic point of view. We brieſt
On the syntax of disjunction scope
Extraction and Multiple Selection in Pp
Interpreted logical forms
Control and Grammar
Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic Theory
Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere …
Semantica
Time and Event Measure
In linguistic semantics durative adverbs like for two hours have typically been analyzed within the framework of internal semantics. Under that theory, sentences are evaluated with respect to time intervals, and temporal measure adverbs quantify over the parts of those intervals (see Dowty 1979, Taylor 1977
Temporal Adjectives and the Structure of Possessive DPs
On Indefinite Pronoun Structures with APs: Reply to Kishimoto
A number of authors have claimed that indefinite pronoun constructions like everything red are formed by raising a noun (thing) over a higher prenominal adjective (red). We examine phenomena in English and other languages which appear to show that adjectives participating in the indefinite pronoun construction do not correspond to prenominal forms, but to postnominal ones. We evaluate the challenges these results present for the N-raising account…
The semantics of the plural pronoun construction
Ezafe and the deep position of nominal modifiers
In languages exhibiting the Ezafe construction, such as Modern Persian, nominal modifiers generally follow the noun, and a large class of nominal modifiers, including APs, NPs, some PPs, but not relative clauses, require a “linking” element, referred to as Ezafe. Thus in (1a), the noun otaq ‘room’ is modified by the adjective phrase besyar kuchik ‘very small.’ The Ezafe vowel e appears in between, suffixed to the noun. In (1b), the noun xune ‘hou…
The Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary a…
On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives
October 01 2010 On Pylkkänen's Semantics for Low Applicatives In Special Collection: CogNet Richard K. Larson Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Richard K. Larson Stony Brook University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (4): 701–704. https://doi.org/10.1162…
Evolution of Human Language: Biolinguistic Perspectives
On Shell Structure
This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the "VP Shell" or "Split VP" analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: "Light Predicate Raising" (1989), which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of "NP Shift" phenomena, and "The Projection of DP (…
Psych verbs in English and Mandarin
Revisiting Article-S
The frst published account of relative clauses in generative grammar (Smith 1964) analyzed these elements as selected complements of the article or determiner in a nominal. In this paper we revisit the “Article-S” Analysis, examining its underlying assumptions about selection and structure and updating its technical implementation. In so doing we show that Article-S continues to be attractive from a syntactic and semantic point of view. We brieſt
On "Dative Idioms" in English
Appeals to idiom data have played an important role in arguments about the relation between English prepositional datives ( Mary gave a present to John) and double object forms ( Mary gave John a present).The claimed existence of idioms in both types has led researchers to conclude that the two constructions are independent, with no derivational relation between them. This article shows that the factual claims are mistaken: no English dative idio…
Superiority and Scope Freezing
David Lebeaux (cited in Larson 1990:603) observes that English double object constructions (DOCs) show “scope freezing” between the two objects. Quantified indirect and direct object arguments must be interpreted in their surface order (1a). Schneider-Zioga (1988) makes a similar observation about quantified arguments in the with-variant of spray-load constructions (1b); they also exhibit scope freezing.As noted in Larson 1990, scope freezing doe…
The AP Linguistics initiative
In May 2016, the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America approved formation of an ad hoc AP Linguistics Committee (APLC) to study the creation of an Advanced Placement Linguistics course and examination for US high schools. In January 2017, the APLC convened and voted to proceed with the drafting of a formal AP Linguistics proposal to the College Board and to take whatever preparatory steps were required in that process. In this …
Advances in Iranian Linguistics
This volume brings together selected papers from the first North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics, which was organized by the linguistics department at Stony Brook University. Papers were selected to illustrate the range of frameworks, diverse areas of research and how the boundaries of linguistic analysis of Iranian languages have expanded over the years. The contributions collected in this volume address advancing research and complex…
Ezafe, PP and the nature of nominalization
Rethinking cartography
The CARTOGRAPHIC PROGRAM has investigated interesting crosslinguistic linear orderings among various sentence constituents. Its signature technical move is to postulate HIERARCHIES OF FUNCTIONAL PROJECTIONS related by functional selection. I note three problems that functional hierarchies encounter in capturing linear order: ‘explanation’, ‘plenitude’, and ‘rigidity’. I compare linearity in cartography with linearity in the integers, which involv…
VP-Preposing and Constituency “Paradox”
English VP-preposing allows VP modifiers to remain on the right (John said he would arrive on Tuesday, and arrive he did, on Tuesday). The classic analysis of this invokes VP constituency, claiming that the modifiers are right-adjoined to VP and stranded by movement of a smaller VP ([VP arrive] he did [VP [VP arrive] on Tuesday]). This article proposes a radically different view based on the copy theory of movement (Chomsky 1993), wherein moved i…
Quantification, matching and events
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