Robert D Borsley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 745745 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert D Borsley |
| NOMBRES | Robert D |
| APELLIDO | Borsley |
| FIRMA | BORSLEY R D |
| AFILIACIONES | Bangor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4856-4732 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Why do we need another book about unbounded dependencies? A review article on Chaves & Putnam’s Unbounded Dependency Constructions
Unbounded dependencies (UDs), in wh -interrogatives, relative clauses and other constructions, have been a major focus of syntactic research for more than half a century. The most widely assumed approach analyzes them in terms of movement and views island phenomena as largely a matter of syntax. Both these positions are problematic. Moreover, they stem from assumptions that have been at the heart of syntactic theorizing for many decades. Chaves a…
Apparent filler–gap mismatches in Welsh
Filler–gap dependencies involving a clause-initial filler constituent of some kind followed by a matching gap are an important feature of human languages. There are also certain cases where what looks like a filler differs in some way from the following gap. In the case of Welsh there is a mismatch between apparent filler and gap in some nominal cleft sentences. It can be argued, however, that the initial constituent is not a filler but one term …
On the nature of Welsh unbounded dependencies
Natural language syntax
Reviewed by: Natural language syntax Robert D. Borsley Natural language syntax. By Peter W. Culicover. (Oxford textbooks in linguistics.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 490. ISBN 9780199230181. $49.95. This book is an introduction to syntax by a scholar who has made many important contributions to the study of syntax over a long period. The book considers all of the syntactic phenomena one would expect a syntax textbook to deal …
On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
English Subject-Auxiliary Inversion (SAI, hereafter) has been considered by many linguists to be a prime example of a formal generalization that does not allow a characterization in functional or semantic terms. However, Adele Goldberg's target article argues that the internal syntactic form of SAI can indeed by characterized in such terms. We provide a considerable amount of evidence that Goldberg is unsuccessful in her attempt to mount a counte…
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
Comparative correlatives and parameters
The Syntax of Welsh
Welsh, like the other Celtic languages, is best known amongst linguists for its verb-initial word order and its use of initial consonant mutations. However it has many more characteristics which are of interest to syntacticians. This book, first published in 2007, provides a concise and accessible overview of the major syntactic phenomena of Welsh. A broad variety of topics are covered, including finite and infinitival clauses, noun phrases, agre…
On the nature of Welsh VSO clauses
Les coordinations relèvent-elles de la syntaxe X-barre
Robert D, Borsley: Coordination and X-bar Syntax. It is widely accepted within Principles and Parameters theory that coordinate structures are Conjunction Phrases, in which the first term is the specifier, the conjunction the head, and the second term the complement. They differ from typical specifier-head-complement structures in various ways. so at most they could be exceptional instances of such structures. A consideration of the distribution …
Against ConjP
A response to Schmitz
More on ‘some applied linguists’
Pattern grammar
Grow your own linguistics? On some applied linguists' views of the subject
Breton as a V2 language
Breton has VSO order in subordinate clauses and in some main clauses, but it does not normally allow a finite verb in initial position in main clauses, which instead show V2 order. We investigate Breton V2 structures and argue that they are problematic for transformational assumptions. We show that a more satisfactory account is possible within an extension of HPSG, which distinguishes between constituent structure and linear structure
Mutation and constituent structure in Welsh
Mutation and Case in Welsh
The most common mutation system of Welsh, soft mutation, affects among other elements the object of a finite verb. This is often known as direct object mutation (DOM). Objects have accusative Case in many languages. Hence, it is natural to consider the possibility that DOM is a manifestation of accusative Case, and this has been proposed by a number of people. There is evidence, however, that this idea is both too strong and too weak. It predicts…
Long head movement in Breton
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The Syntax of the Celtic Languages
This 1996 volume brings together ten chapters on the Celtic languages using the insights of principles-and-parameters theory. The leading researchers in the field examine Welsh, Irish, Breton and Scots Gaelic in comparative perspective, making reference to recent work on English, French, Arabic, German and other languages. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which seeks to make the volume accessible to theoreticians unfamiliar wi…
On some similarities and differences between Welsh and Syrian Arabic
Se servant de la methode HPSG, l'A. examine les differences et les similitudes entre le gallois et l'arabe syrien. Son etude porte sur les propositions avec un verbe initial, celles avec un sujet initial, l'apparition des clitiques, les propositions finies et non-finies
Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation in Polish
Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation
Mutation in Welsh
Syntactic Theory
Against ConjP
Grow your own linguistics? On some applied linguists' views of the subject
An HPSG approach to Welsh
Welsh differs from English in a number of ways. The most obvious point is that it is a VSO language, but it also has distinctive agreement phenomena and clitics. For this reason, it is natural to ask of any theory of syntax that has been developed primarily on the basis of English: how can it handle Welsh? Welsh has had fairly extensive attention within the Government-Binding theory (see, for example, Harlow, 1981; Sproat, 1985; Sadler, 1988, and…
VP complements
A major controversy in syntactic theory concerns the nature of control verbs, verbs like try , which govern equi-NP-deletion in classical transformational grammar. For recent versions of the extended standard theory and, in particular, the government-binding theory, such verbs take a sentential complement with a PRO subject. (Cf. Chomsky 1980, 1981, 1982 and Koster & May 1982.) On an alternative analysis, originating in Bresnan (1971) and Brame (…
Mutation and constituent structure in Welsh
On the superficiality of Welsh agreement
Prepositional complementizers in Welsh
A number of languages have what can be called prepositional complementizers, items which look like prepositions and have some of the properties of prepositions but appear in positions in which complementizers appear. In this paper I shall be concerned with Welsh prepositional complementizers and, in particular, with their implications for the analysis of subjectless infinitives. I shall consider the possibility of providing an analysis of the Wel…
Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation in Polish
Syntactic theory
Wh-movement and unbounded deletion in Polish equatives
Chomsky (1977) argues that all constructions that apparently involve unbounded deletion rules obeying island constraints in fact involve successive cyclic wh -movement followed by deletion in COMP. Among the relevant constructions are English equatives. There is no direct evidence that they involve wh -movement. Polish equatives, however, often show quite clear evidence of the operation of wh -movement. It might be thought, then, that they provid…
More on the difference between English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses
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Comparative correlatives and parameters
Agreement and the position of subjects in Breton
Phrase-structure grammar and the Barriers conception of clause structure
On the nature of Welsh unbounded dependencies
On the nature of Welsh VSO clauses
A response to Schmitz
More on ‘some applied linguists’
Breton as a V2 language
Breton has VSO order in subordinate clauses and in some main clauses, but it does not normally allow a finite verb in initial position in main clauses, which instead show V2 order. We investigate Breton V2 structures and argue that they are problematic for transformational assumptions. We show that a more satisfactory account is possible within an extension of HPSG, which distinguishes between constituent structure and linear structure
On some similarities and differences between Welsh and Syrian Arabic
Se servant de la methode HPSG, l'A. examine les differences et les similitudes entre le gallois et l'arabe syrien. Son etude porte sur les propositions avec un verbe initial, celles avec un sujet initial, l'apparition des clitiques, les propositions finies et non-finies
Redefining linguistics
On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
English Subject-Auxiliary Inversion (SAI, hereafter) has been considered by many linguists to be a prime example of a formal generalization that does not allow a characterization in functional or semantic terms. However, Adele Goldberg's target article argues that the internal syntactic form of SAI can indeed by characterized in such terms. We provide a considerable amount of evidence that Goldberg is unsuccessful in her attempt to mount a counte…
GPSG and Welsh clause structure
A note on ‘traditional treatments’ of Welsh
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In defence of single mothers
In an important theoretical discussion, Sampson (1975) argues against what he terms the ‘single-mother condition’. This is the condition that no node may have more than one mother. It is central to the definition of a tree, as the term is normally understood in linguistic theory. Sampson argues that the condition should be abandoned, and that what he terms ‘semitrees’, graphs in which nodes have more than one mother, should be permitted as repres…
In defence of single mothers
In an important theoretical discussion, Sampson (1975) argues against what he terms the ‘single-mother condition’. This is the condition that no node may have more than one mother. It is central to the definition of a tree, as the term is normally understood in linguistic theory. Sampson argues that the condition should be abandoned, and that what he terms ‘semitrees’, graphs in which nodes have more than one mother, should be permitted as repres…
On ‘On binding’
Wh-movement and unbounded deletion in Polish equatives
Chomsky (1977) argues that all constructions that apparently involve unbounded deletion rules obeying island constraints in fact involve successive cyclic wh -movement followed by deletion in COMP. Among the relevant constructions are English equatives. There is no direct evidence that they involve wh -movement. Polish equatives, however, often show quite clear evidence of the operation of wh -movement. It might be thought, then, that they provid…
VP complements
A major controversy in syntactic theory concerns the nature of control verbs, verbs like try , which govern equi-NP-deletion in classical transformational grammar. For recent versions of the extended standard theory and, in particular, the government-binding theory, such verbs take a sentential complement with a PRO subject. (Cf. Chomsky 1980, 1981, 1982 and Koster & May 1982.) On an alternative analysis, originating in Bresnan (1971) and Brame (…
Word grammar
Prepositional complementizers in Welsh
A number of languages have what can be called prepositional complementizers, items which look like prepositions and have some of the properties of prepositions but appear in positions in which complementizers appear. In this paper I shall be concerned with Welsh prepositional complementizers and, in particular, with their implications for the analysis of subjectless infinitives. I shall consider the possibility of providing an analysis of the Wel…
A unified theory of syntactic categories
A note on ‘traditional treatments’ of Welsh
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A note on impersonal passives
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GPSG and Welsh clause structure
On Polish PPs
Agreement and the position of subjects in Breton
Language in mind and language in society
An HPSG approach to Welsh
Welsh differs from English in a number of ways. The most obvious point is that it is a VSO language, but it also has distinctive agreement phenomena and clitics. For this reason, it is natural to ask of any theory of syntax that has been developed primarily on the basis of English: how can it handle Welsh? Welsh has had fairly extensive attention within the Government-Binding theory (see, for example, Harlow, 1981; Sproat, 1985; Sadler, 1988, and…
Phrase-structure grammar and the Barriers conception of clause structure
The language machine
Redefining linguistics
More on the difference between English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses
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Syntactic Theory
Syntactic theory
Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation in Polish
Clitic auxiliaries and incorporation
Mutation in Welsh
On some similarities and differences between Welsh and Syrian Arabic
Se servant de la methode HPSG, l'A. examine les differences et les similitudes entre le gallois et l'arabe syrien. Son etude porte sur les propositions avec un verbe initial, celles avec un sujet initial, l'apparition des clitiques, les propositions finies et non-finies
Long head movement in Breton
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