Robert D Van Valin

Biographic Data

ID741557
NAMERobert D Van Valin
GIVEN NAMESRobert D
FAMILY NAMEVan Valin
SIGNATUREVAN VALIN R D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York
ORCID0000-0003-0708-8714
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS84
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX5

  • The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause

    Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Robert D Van ValinARTICLEStudies in Language2017

    We ask whether there is a “macro-event phrase,” a uniform level of syntax at which complex scenarios may be described as single events under the Macro-Event Property (MEP). The MEP is a form-meaning mapping property that constrains the compatibility of event descriptions with time-positional modifiers. An examination of English infinitival complements, Ewe serial verb constructions, and Japanese converb constructions suggests that the putative cr…

  • Cross-Linguistic Patterns of Linking

    Open AccessRobert D Van ValinARTICLERevista da ABRALIN2017

    Este artigo apresentará um número de generalizações inter-lingüísticas sobre a conexão de argumentos, tomando por base uma teoria conceptualmente baseada na gramática de papéis, referência e conexão [linking, Role and Reference Grammar [RRG], embora não estruturalmente baseada. Será mostrado que há aspectos universais da conexão que são prontamente capturados neste arcabouço e que a variação específica de cada língua é bastante limitada e restrin…

  • Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

    M M Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Robert D Van ValinBOOKInformation Structuring of Spoken…2015

  • Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface

    Robert D Van ValinBOOKInvestigations of the syntax-semant…2008

    Investigations of the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface presents on-going research in Role and Reference Grammar in a number of critical areas of linguistic theory: verb semantics and argument structure, the nature of syntactic categories and syntactic representation, prosody and syntax, information structure and syntax, and the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. In each of these areas there are important results which not only advanc…

  • Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface

    Open AccessRobert D Van Valin, Jr Robert D Van Valin et al.BOOKExploring the Syntax-Semantics…2005

    Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail at how structure, meaning, and communicative function interact in human languages. Working within th…

  • Yaqui and the Analysis of Primary Object Languages

    Lisa Guerrero, Lilián Guerrero et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of American…2004Cited by: 3References: 10

    The central topic of this study is to investigate three and fourplace predicate in Yaqui, which are characterized by having multiple object arguments. As with other Southern UtoAztecan languages, it has been said that Yaqui follows the Primary/Secondary Object pattern (Dryer 1986). Actually, Yaqui presents three patterns: verbs like nenka ‘sell’ follow the direct-indirect object pattern, verbs like miika ‘give’ follow the primary object pattern, …

  • Functional Linguistics

    Robert D Van ValinOTHERThe Handbook of Linguistics2003

  • The development of subject–auxiliary inversion in English wh-questions: An alternative analysis

    Open AccessRobert D Van ValinARTICLEJournal of Child Language2002

    Rowland & Pine (2000) present an analysis of the development of subject–auxiliary inversion in wh-questions in the speech of Adam from the Brown corpus. They show that there is an uninversion period in which the child fails to invert the subject and auxiliary in wh-questions, and they argue that this is a function of the frequency of wh-word+auxiliary collocations in the input: the more frequent a particular collocation is in the input, the more …

  • Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function

    Stuart Robinson, Robert D Van Valin et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

  • Response to Seidenberg and Hoeffner

    Jeri J Jaeger, Robert D Van Valin et al.ARTICLELanguage1998

    Seidenberg & Hoeffner (hereafter S&H) have presented a critique of our PET study of regular and irregular verb morphology in English, and have faulted it on five main points. We will address each of these points briefly in this reply

  • Response to Seidenberg and Hoeffner

    Jeri J Jaeger, Robert D Van Valin et al.ARTICLELanguage1998

    DISCUSSION NOTES Response to Seidenberg and Hoeffner Jeri J. JaegerRobert D. Van Valin Jr.Alan H. Lockwood SUNY Buffalo Seidenberg & Hoeffner (hereafter S&H) have presented a critique of our PET study of regular and irregular verb morphology in English1, and have faulted it on five main points. We will address each of these points briefly in this reply. (1) Brain regions activated. S&H state that 'Jaeger et al.'s data do not provide strong eviden…

  • Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function

    Open AccessRobert D Van Valin, Randy J Lapolla et al.BOOKSyntax1997

    This book is an introduction to syntactic theory and analysis which can be used for both introductory and advanced courses in theoretical syntax. Offering an alternative to the standard generative view of the subject, it deals with the major issues in syntax with which all theories are concerned. It presents syntactic phenomena from a wide range of languages and introduces students to the major typological issues that syntactic theories must addr…

  • The goals of linguistic theory

    Open AccessRobert D Van Valin, Randy J LapollaCHAPTERSyntax1997

    This book is about some of the devices users of human languages employ to put meaningful elements together to form words, words together to form phrases, phrases together to form clauses, clauses together to form sentences, and sentences together to form texts. The emphasis here will be on the construction of units larger than words, in particular clauses and sentences. This has often been viewed primarily as the domain of syntax. ‘The term “synt…

  • A Positron Emission Tomographic Study of Regular and Irregular Verb Morphology in English

    Jeri J Jaeger, Alan H Lockwood et al.ARTICLELanguage1996Cited by: 11

    Theories about the representation and processing of regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs in English have disagreed as to whether they should be treated as a unified phenomenon (e.g. both rule-governed, or both generated by a connectionist net), or as two distinct types of linguistic entities (e.g. regulars formed by rules of the grammar, irregulars stored in lexical memory). In this article we present data from a positron emission tomo…

  • Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

    Gabriel Decio, Robert D Van ValinARTICLELanguage1995

  • Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: The Cognitive Organization of Information

    Robert D Van Valin, William CroftARTICLELanguage1993

  • Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

    Robert D Van Valin Jr, Robert D Van ValinBOOKAdvances in Role and Reference…1992

  • A synopsis of role and reference grammar

    Robert D Van ValinCHAPTERAdvances in Role and Reference…1992

  • Incorporation in Universal Grammar: A case study in theoretical reductionism

    Open AccessRobert D Van ValinARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1992References: 6

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  • Another look at Icelandic case marking and grammatical relations

    Open AccessRobert D Van ValinARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…1991Cited by: 5References: 9

  • Semantic Parameters of Split Intransitivity

    Robert D Van ValinARTICLELanguage1990Cited by: 31

    Split intransitivity has been an important issue in syntactic theory since the postulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis in Relational Grammar in Perlmutter 1978; it was adapted into Government-Binding theory in Burzio 1981. In both theories, a purely syntactic approach to split intransitivity is taken. This paper argues that split-intransitive phenomena are better explained in semantic terms. The semantic analysis will be carried out in Role an…

  • The Role of Government in the Grammar of Head-Marking Languages

    Robert D Van Valin, Robert D Van Valin Robert D Van ValinARTICLEInternational Journal of American…1987Cited by: 4References: 6

  • The Syntax of Native American Languages

    Robert D Van Valin, Eung-Do Cook et al.ARTICLELanguage1986

    J. Aissen, Themes and Absolutives: Some Semantic Rules in Tzotzil S.R. Anderson, Syntax and the Government-Binding Theory F.R. Brandon and L.F. Seki, Moving Interrogatives without and Initial + wh Node in Tupi P. Cole, Clause Reduction in Ancash Quechua W.D. Davies, Choctaw and Levels of Syntactic Representation P.W. Davis and R. Saunders, An Expression of Coreference in Bella Coola D.B. Gerdts, Relational Analysis of Halkomelem Causals D. James,…

  • A Typology of Syntactic Relations in Clause Linkage

    Open AccessRobert D Van Valin, Jr Robert D Van ValinARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1984

    Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 542-558

  • Pragmatics, ergativity and grammatical relations

    Open AccessRobert D Van ValinARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1983Cited by: 1References: 17