Stanley Dubinsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 742186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Dubinsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubinsky |
| SIGNATURE | DUBINSKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3688-7523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Finding ‘language’ in the Hebrew Bible
In the Hebrew Bible, lashon [לָשׁוֹן] and safah [שָׂפָה] are both translated as ‘language’. In Genesis 10, survivors of the flood went their separate ways each according to their lashon. In Chapter 11, the builders of the Tower of Babel all spoke the same safah. Focusing on lashon, it changes radically over the Biblical millennium. From ~1400 BCE, lashon describes ways in which individuals speak. By 550-450 BCE, it was synonymous with ‘nation’ or…
The Language Freedom Index
This article introduces a framework for systematically evaluating and comparing language rights across national contexts. We develop an index to assess the range of language freedoms, focusing on areas such as government services, education, healthcare, and media. The index compiles multiple variables into a single indicator, offering a concise measure of linguistic freedom. Our analysis shows that larger language communities typically enjoy more…
History of linguistics as a path to dissertation progress and contextualization of research
In our doctoral program (one which largely trains students in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and L2 acquisition, rather than phonological, syntactic, and semantic theory), history of linguistics leads students to a deeper understanding of linguistics than is possible without it. Through this course, our students gain, in one semester rather than several, a broad perspective on the evolution of linguistic theories and methodologies. The cour…
This construction needs understood
The Alternative Embedded Passive (AEP) occurs in the Midland region in variation with the infinitival passive. AEPs may occur with the verbs need, want, and like: The baby needs/wants/likes fed. Murray & Simon (2002) observe a hierarchy of acceptability and usage across the three AEP verbs, with need as the most acceptable and like as the least. Building on an idea in Edelstein (2014), this paper presents evidence that the hierarchy results from …
L2 interpretation of negative polar questions
This paper studies Korean L2 English learners’ responses to negative polar questions (NPQs – i.e., negative yes-no questions), focusing on the differences between EFL learners (those learning English as a foreign language in Korea) and ESL learners (those learning English as US residents). The paper first considers differences in the syntax and semantics of Korean and English NPQs, differences that may lead to misinterpretations when questions ar…
On “historical unity” of Russian and Ukrainian
This paper focuses on Putin’s (2021) misguided claim regarding “historical [linguistic] unity” of Russian and Ukrainian. Their being two distinct languages is not in question, as opposed (for example) to Serbian and Croatian. However, it is important to substantiate the objective reality of those differences, taking a strong stand against unjustified claims about linguistic [unity] where there are no grounds for them. Implementing a Python-coded …
Classical Greek object cases
We examine here the distribution of morphological case (e.g., accusative, genitive, and dative) among object complements of monotransitive verbs in Classical Greek ( CG ). Accusative-marked objects are generally deemed to be direct objects ( DO ), while dative- and genitive-marked complements are typically treated as syntactically or semantically separate, sometimes being treated as objects bearing exceptional/semantic/quirky case and sometimes b…
Subjacency effects on overt wh -movement in wh -in-situ languages
This paper investigates whether overt wh-movement in Korean, a wh-in-situ language, triggers Subjacency violations in the same set of bounding configurations as English. Yoon (2013) and Jung (2015) showed that Korean wh-islands display Subjacency effects, and we ask whether the Complex NP and Coordinate Structure Constraints are also observed. We find that they are not. We propose that this is because Korean nominal expressions need not project D…
Weaponizing Language
As part of a larger project studying language conflict, this paper documents ways in which the oppression of language use on the part of a dominant language/ethnic group is instrumentalized as a tool to inflict gratuitous societal pain and punishment upon nondominant ethnolinguistic groups and their individual members. Our arguments will be illustrated primarily by three contemporary cases: (1) the Uyghur minority in the PRC, (2) the Kurdish mino…
Concealed passives and the syntax and semantics of need/philyo in English and Korean
Despite similar argument structure, the syntax of English need and Korean philyo contrasts, illuminating differences in lexical derivation and insertion of argument-taking elements. Verbs need, require, deserve, want, and bear take gerundive complements that are "understood passively" (Jesperson 1927/1954:112[9.23]) and called concealed passive constructions (CPCs) (Huddleston and Pullum 2002:1429). In this paper, we argue that in English, the ge…
Semantic and syntactic demarcations of Classical Greek object cases
In Classical Greek, many verbs take direct objects marked with genitive (GEN) or dative (DAT), rather than accusative (ACC) case. Traditional grammars (Smyth 1956, Boas et al. 2019) fail to offer principled descriptions or accounts of the distribution of ACC, GEN, DAT object case for transitive verbs. This paper analyzes a corpus involving case-assigning transitive verbs, and examines Luraghi’s 2010 Transitivity Hierarchy in this context. We find…
The effects of focus on scope relations between quantifiers and negation in Korean
This paper addresses the effects of focus-marking (i.e. nun-marking) on the scope of quantified expressions in Korean negation constructions and shows how these inform the analysis of Korean negation constructions generally. Specifically, highlighting the “Rigid Scope” properties of Korean (in contrast with English), focus-marking in Korean negation constructions eliminates quantifier/negative scope ambiguities. In all cases but one, a focus-mark…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
The Repeated Name Penalty, the Overt Pronoun Penalty, and Topic in Japanese
Age of Arrival (AOA) effects on anaphor processing by Japanese bilinguals
This study investigates the role of exposure to English on discourse-reference processing by native Japanese speakers. Shoji et al. (2016a, The repeated name penalty, the overt pronoun penalty, and topic in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research . http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007 %2Fs10936-016-9424-4 ) found that Japanese-English bilinguals residing in the United States show a Repeated Name Penalty (RNP; Gordon et al. 1993. Pronou…
The Israeli Conflict System
Understanding Language Through Humor
Objects and Other Subjects
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the spectrum of related raising (e.g. possessor raising, further raising) and control (partial, split, generic, super-equi) phenomena; cross-linguistic typology, including backward and copy constructions; and their acquisition in child language
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the syntactic attributes governing their distribution, the characterization of the relevant silent elements, and the empirical properties that may distinguish/unify the two classes of constructions (on either syntactic or semantic grounds
Single and Double Modal Syntax
The Place, Range, and Taxonomy of Control and Raising
On Extraction From NPS
Objects and Other Subjects
Syntactic Development
On Extraction From NPS
Epithets as Antilogophoric Pronouns
October 01 1998 Epithets as Antilogophoric Pronouns In Special Collection: CogNet Stanley Dubinsky, Stanley Dubinsky University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Robert Hamilton Robert Hamilton University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Stanley Dubinsky University of South Carolina Robert Hamilton University of So…
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
Passive and Stative in Chichewa
This article examines stative and passive constructions in Chichewa, finding that the syntax of the two constructions is best accommodated in a model that allows argument structure changing operations, such as stative, to be distinguished from operations, such as passive, that affect the mapping from argument structure to grammatical functions. The Chichewa facts recall observations made concerning the differences between English adjectival and v…
Predicate union and the syntax of Japanese causatives
This paper presents a monoclausal, multipredicate analysis of Japanese causatives, adopting the fundamental assumptions of Relational Grammar. Evidence is provided for the existence of two distinct classes of causatives, distinguished on the basis of the agentivity of the matrix subject. It is also demonstrated that the surface case marking of the causee is constrained by its relative status to the matrix subject with respect to a set of Proto-Ag…
Predicate union and the syntax of Japanese passives
This paper presents a relational account of the Japanese constructions that are commonly referred to as ‘passives’. They are shown to all be multipredicate, monoclausal constructions, with the differences between them primarily attributable to optionality in the lexical argument structure of the ‘passive’ predicate. The proposed analysis explains the differences between passives and causatives, despite their sometimes identical case-marking. Furt…
Weaponizing Language
As part of a larger project studying language conflict, this paper documents ways in which the oppression of language use on the part of a dominant language/ethnic group is instrumentalized as a tool to inflict gratuitous societal pain and punishment upon nondominant ethnolinguistic groups and their individual members. Our arguments will be illustrated primarily by three contemporary cases: (1) the Uyghur minority in the PRC, (2) the Kurdish mino…
The Place, Range, and Taxonomy of Control and Raising
Syntactic underspecification and light-verb phenomena in Japanese
This paper explores the consequences of unspecified syntactic features for an analysis of Japanese light-verb constructions. In Japanese, θ-assigning nouns (verbal nouns or VNs) combine with the light verb suru (do) to form hundreds of clausal predicates. A VN can appear adjacent to suru and caseless, or be marked with accusative case. In the second instance, the VN may or may not form a constituent with one of its complements. Prior research int…
The Repeated Name Penalty, the Overt Pronoun Penalty, and Topic in Japanese
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the syntactic attributes governing their distribution, the characterization of the relevant silent elements, and the empirical properties that may distinguish/unify the two classes of constructions (on either syntactic or semantic grounds
Functional Projections of Predicates
This paper reports the results of six experiments involving an online selfpaced reading task that examine the processing of coordinate small clause predicate phrases versus coordinated argument NPs. The results have particular significance for the analysis of small clause complement has an Agr projection associated with it. An adequate explanation of the processing of small claue coordination is shown to motivate a new parsing principle, Coordina…
A challenge to Burzio's generalization
L'article examine la construction impersonnelle transitive, specifique au lingala et a certaines autres langues bantoues occidentales. Le comportement de cette construction pose un probleme pour l'hypothese de Burzio selon laquelle la capacite dont dispose un verbe d'attribuer un cas structurel a son objet direct depend de l'assignation du role-theta externe
Case assignment to VP-adjoined positions
On representing and constraining lexical government of syntactic structures
Lexical and Syntactic Causatives in Oromo
In the syntactic process of causative formation in Oromo, the affixation of the causative morpheme is sensitive to initial grammatical relations: the number of causative morphemes corresponds to the number of logical subjects in the clause. Thus, transitive and unergative verbs can be distinguished from unaccusatives in causative constructions. A causative-intensive construction may also be formed via reduplication of this causative morpheme. How…
On representing and constraining lexical government of syntactic structures
Case assignment to VP-adjoined positions
Predicate union and the syntax of Japanese causatives
This paper presents a monoclausal, multipredicate analysis of Japanese causatives, adopting the fundamental assumptions of Relational Grammar. Evidence is provided for the existence of two distinct classes of causatives, distinguished on the basis of the agentivity of the matrix subject. It is also demonstrated that the surface case marking of the causee is constrained by its relative status to the matrix subject with respect to a set of Proto-Ag…
A challenge to Burzio's generalization
L'article examine la construction impersonnelle transitive, specifique au lingala et a certaines autres langues bantoues occidentales. Le comportement de cette construction pose un probleme pour l'hypothese de Burzio selon laquelle la capacite dont dispose un verbe d'attribuer un cas structurel a son objet direct depend de l'assignation du role-theta externe
Passive and Stative in Chichewa
This article examines stative and passive constructions in Chichewa, finding that the syntax of the two constructions is best accommodated in a model that allows argument structure changing operations, such as stative, to be distinguished from operations, such as passive, that affect the mapping from argument structure to grammatical functions. The Chichewa facts recall observations made concerning the differences between English adjectival and v…
An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
Japanese Sentence Processing
Predicate union and the syntax of Japanese passives
This paper presents a relational account of the Japanese constructions that are commonly referred to as ‘passives’. They are shown to all be multipredicate, monoclausal constructions, with the differences between them primarily attributable to optionality in the lexical argument structure of the ‘passive’ predicate. The proposed analysis explains the differences between passives and causatives, despite their sometimes identical case-marking. Furt…
Syntactic underspecification and light-verb phenomena in Japanese
This paper explores the consequences of unspecified syntactic features for an analysis of Japanese light-verb constructions. In Japanese, θ-assigning nouns (verbal nouns or VNs) combine with the light verb suru (do) to form hundreds of clausal predicates. A VN can appear adjacent to suru and caseless, or be marked with accusative case. In the second instance, the VN may or may not form a constituent with one of its complements. Prior research int…
Epithets as Antilogophoric Pronouns
October 01 1998 Epithets as Antilogophoric Pronouns In Special Collection: CogNet Stanley Dubinsky, Stanley Dubinsky University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Robert Hamilton Robert Hamilton University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Stanley Dubinsky University of South Carolina Robert Hamilton University of So…
Syntactic Development
Functional Projections of Predicates
This paper reports the results of six experiments involving an online selfpaced reading task that examine the processing of coordinate small clause predicate phrases versus coordinated argument NPs. The results have particular significance for the analysis of small clause complement has an Agr projection associated with it. An adequate explanation of the processing of small claue coordination is shown to motivate a new parsing principle, Coordina…
Objects and Other Subjects
On Extraction From NPS
The Place, Range, and Taxonomy of Control and Raising
Single and Double Modal Syntax
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the spectrum of related raising (e.g. possessor raising, further raising) and control (partial, split, generic, super-equi) phenomena; cross-linguistic typology, including backward and copy constructions; and their acquisition in child language
Up to D[eb]ate on Raising and Control Part 1
This is the first part of a two-part article that reviews a number of the current debates regarding raising and control constructions. The issues addressed in this part include the syntactic attributes governing their distribution, the characterization of the relevant silent elements, and the empirical properties that may distinguish/unify the two classes of constructions (on either syntactic or semantic grounds
Understanding Language Through Humor
Objects and Other Subjects
The Israeli Conflict System
Age of Arrival (AOA) effects on anaphor processing by Japanese bilinguals
This study investigates the role of exposure to English on discourse-reference processing by native Japanese speakers. Shoji et al. (2016a, The repeated name penalty, the overt pronoun penalty, and topic in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research . http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007 %2Fs10936-016-9424-4 ) found that Japanese-English bilinguals residing in the United States show a Repeated Name Penalty (RNP; Gordon et al. 1993. Pronou…
The Repeated Name Penalty, the Overt Pronoun Penalty, and Topic in Japanese
Reproducible research in linguistics
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articula…
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