Peter Svenonius
Biographic Data
| ID | 751294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Svenonius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Svenonius |
| SIGNATURE | SVENONIUS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5043-8543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Word Order Universals and Their Relationship to Structure
Word order provides important clues to underlying syntactic structure. Despite great crosslinguistic variation, some generalizations are robust enough to inform theory development. This article reviews patterns of major clause elements and their derivation and discusses a pair of generalizations relating syntactic hierarchy to surface order—namely, the Universal 20 generalization (U20) and the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC). U20 rules out bas…
Prepositions with CP and their implications for extended projections
In some limited cases, English allows a particular preposition to combine with a certain kind of subordinate clause, as exemplified byin thatin "I take the proposal seriously, in that I loathe it". In contrast, Norwegian systematically allows prepositions to combine with subordinate clauses (as inDet resulterte i at vi vant, literally "It resulted in that we won"). I argue that the English case should be handled as the subcategorization for a cer…
Learning rules versus learning items
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Functional Structure from Top to Toe
Generalized applicatives
On this view, roots and functional material are as different as they can be. However, closer examination reveals that some of the differences are not absolute. Harley (2014) makes this point, and effectively refines the DM version of the dichotomy, maintaining it in a weakened form. In this short note, I raise the question of whether the dichotomy has been so weakened that a more radical move can be contemplated, that of eliminating the distincti…
Deriving the functional hierarchy
Slavic prefixes inside and outside VP
Most Slavic prefixes can be assigned to one of two large cate- gories, lexical and superlexical. The lexical prefixes are like Germanic particles, in having resultative meanings, often spatial, but often id- iosyncratic. The superlexical prefixes are like adverbs or auxiliary verbs, having aspectual and quantificational meanings. I present a syntactic account of the two types of prefix, arguing that the lexical ones are to be analyzed essentially…
Slavic Prefixes and Morphology
This is an introduction to a special volume of Nordlyd available at http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/nordlyd/. It outlines those aspects of Slavic verbal morphology which are of relevance to the papers in the volume, explaining various background assumptions, analytic motivations, and glossing conventions along the way, with reference to the papers in the volume. A full list of abbreviations for all the papers is provided in the last section.
How Phonological is Object Shift
The papers here represent very different analyses of Object Shift (OS), and take very different positions on the interaction of phonology and syntax, an area in which there are many unsettled questions. Mainstream work tends to hold that syntax is blind to phonological content, with certain exceptions, for example sometimes phonetically null elements require special syntactic licensing (Chomsky 1981), or certain syntactic rules only apply to node…
Extending the extension condition to discontinuous idioms
This paper makes a specific proposal regarding the structure of idioms as they are listed in the lexicon, which has important ramifications. Specifically, I suggest that first Merge as well as internal Merge can target subconstituents of structures already built by Merge. This creates structures which I call Banyan trees, in which there is more than one undominated node. I suggest that this model, together with certain assumptions about phases an…
Subjects, expletives, and the EPP
Case and event structure
I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal projections; thus, Icelandic case does not encode features of noun phrase interpretation, but it is not uninterpretable either; case is properly seen as reflecting (interpretable) tense and aspect features.…
The Derivation of VO and OV
The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived from the other, and if so, which of the two orders is primary. Different options explored include derivation of VO order by head movement from a basic O…
The derivation of VO and OV
Clefts in Scandinavian
...
Particles
The author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages
Deriving the functional hierarchy
Particles
The author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages
Prepositions with CP and their implications for extended projections
In some limited cases, English allows a particular preposition to combine with a certain kind of subordinate clause, as exemplified byin thatin "I take the proposal seriously, in that I loathe it". In contrast, Norwegian systematically allows prepositions to combine with subordinate clauses (as inDet resulterte i at vi vant, literally "It resulted in that we won"). I argue that the English case should be handled as the subcategorization for a cer…
Particles
The author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages
Clefts in Scandinavian
...
The Derivation of VO and OV
The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Richard Kayne and others. The various papers in the volume take different positions with respect to whether one type of structure is derived from the other, and if so, which of the two orders is primary. Different options explored include derivation of VO order by head movement from a basic O…
The derivation of VO and OV
Case and event structure
I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable only on verbal projections; thus, Icelandic case does not encode features of noun phrase interpretation, but it is not uninterpretable either; case is properly seen as reflecting (interpretable) tense and aspect features.…
Subjects, expletives, and the EPP
Slavic prefixes inside and outside VP
Most Slavic prefixes can be assigned to one of two large cate- gories, lexical and superlexical. The lexical prefixes are like Germanic particles, in having resultative meanings, often spatial, but often id- iosyncratic. The superlexical prefixes are like adverbs or auxiliary verbs, having aspectual and quantificational meanings. I present a syntactic account of the two types of prefix, arguing that the lexical ones are to be analyzed essentially…
Slavic Prefixes and Morphology
This is an introduction to a special volume of Nordlyd available at http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/nordlyd/. It outlines those aspects of Slavic verbal morphology which are of relevance to the papers in the volume, explaining various background assumptions, analytic motivations, and glossing conventions along the way, with reference to the papers in the volume. A full list of abbreviations for all the papers is provided in the last section.
How Phonological is Object Shift
The papers here represent very different analyses of Object Shift (OS), and take very different positions on the interaction of phonology and syntax, an area in which there are many unsettled questions. Mainstream work tends to hold that syntax is blind to phonological content, with certain exceptions, for example sometimes phonetically null elements require special syntactic licensing (Chomsky 1981), or certain syntactic rules only apply to node…
Extending the extension condition to discontinuous idioms
This paper makes a specific proposal regarding the structure of idioms as they are listed in the lexicon, which has important ramifications. Specifically, I suggest that first Merge as well as internal Merge can target subconstituents of structures already built by Merge. This creates structures which I call Banyan trees, in which there is more than one undominated node. I suggest that this model, together with certain assumptions about phases an…
Functional Structure from Top to Toe
Generalized applicatives
On this view, roots and functional material are as different as they can be. However, closer examination reveals that some of the differences are not absolute. Harley (2014) makes this point, and effectively refines the DM version of the dichotomy, maintaining it in a weakened form. In this short note, I raise the question of whether the dichotomy has been so weakened that a more radical move can be contemplated, that of eliminating the distincti…
Deriving the functional hierarchy
Learning rules versus learning items
Preview this article: Learning rules versus learning items, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.18067.sve-1.gif
Prepositions with CP and their implications for extended projections
In some limited cases, English allows a particular preposition to combine with a certain kind of subordinate clause, as exemplified byin thatin "I take the proposal seriously, in that I loathe it". In contrast, Norwegian systematically allows prepositions to combine with subordinate clauses (as inDet resulterte i at vi vant, literally "It resulted in that we won"). I argue that the English case should be handled as the subcategorization for a cer…
Word Order Universals and Their Relationship to Structure
Word order provides important clues to underlying syntactic structure. Despite great crosslinguistic variation, some generalizations are robust enough to inform theory development. This article reviews patterns of major clause elements and their derivation and discusses a pair of generalizations relating syntactic hierarchy to surface order—namely, the Universal 20 generalization (U20) and the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC). U20 rules out bas…
Computer Science (13 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (4 works) · Verb (4 works)