Carson T Schutze
Biographic Data
| ID | 754831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carson T Schutze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carson T |
| FAMILY NAME | Schutze |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUTZE C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5066-314X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: A follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015)
This squib challenges Patterson & Caponigro's (2015, this journal) claim that there are few acceptable free relative clauses with who . We show that free relatives with who are generally acceptable when they are ‘transparent’ free relatives or complements of a copula, and add further nuance to their findings concerning how the degree of acceptability of free relatives with who varies according to positional factors
Challenges for a theory of islands: A broader perspective on Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven
Subjacency characterizes a set of phenomena whose acquisition must be explained by any proposal for human language learning. We take a broader perspective than previous responses to Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven (2014), arguing that they have not shown that this UG principle is 'redundant' because their proposed alternative does not take into account firmly established constraints on A-bar dependencies. We illustrate a range of challenges for theori…
A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010
Web searches should supplement judgements, not supplant them
Synchronic and diachronic microvariation in English do
Parameterizing Passive Participle Movement
Burzio (1986: 154–158) observes the contrast in word order between the associate DP and the participle in expletive passives in English (1) versus passives with postverbal subjects in Italian (2). (1) a. There’ve been some men arrested. b. *There’ve been arrested some men. (2) a. *Sono stati alcuni uomini arrestati. are been some men arrested b. Sono stati arrestati alcuni uomini. are been arrested some men This contrast cannot be due to a pervas…
Productive inventory and case/agreement contingencies: A methodological note on Rispoli (1999)
Rispoli (1999) suggests that previous studies arguing for a contingency between the case of subject pronouns and the presence/absence of verbal agreement in the acquisition of English (e.g. Schütze, 1997) suffer from methodological problems, and presents new data that fail to support earlier findings. I show that Rispoli's methodology unnecessarily biases his study against finding the predicted contingencies: it fails to take account of children'…
On Korean Case Stacking: The varied functions of the particles ka and lul
Korean exhibits a phenomenon that has been dubbed case stacking, in which the nominative particle ka is optionally suffixed to the subject in addition to the dative particle eykey. Numerous authors have claimed that stacked ka represents the realization of structural nominative case assigned to subject position, independent of inherent dative case. Under this view, ka-stacking provides prima facie evidence that structural licensing (a.k.a. abstra…
On the Nature of Default Case
This paper presents arguments that Universal Grammar includes a notion of "default case" different from that which has generally been assumed in the literature. It comprises the case forms used to spell out nominals that do not receive a case specification by assignment or other syntactic means. As such, it does not interact with the Case Filter, which is argued to be a purely syntactic constraint as opposed to a morphophonological one. It is sho…
Different rates of pronoun case error: Comments on Rispoli (1998)
Rispoli (1998) presents data to motivate a model of pronoun case errors in child English. His data consist of relative rates of occurrence of errors involving particular forms in the study of twenty-seven English children between the ages of 2;6 and 4;0. I show that his claim that overextensions of he and him are antagonistic cannot be maintained. I argue that his explanation for why her subjects are more frequent than other errors is insufficien…
English Expletive Constructions Are Not Infected
Sobin (1997) proposes an analysis of several "prestige" constructions of English under which they result from grammatical viruses. Counter to his claim, I argue that plural agreement in expletive constructions introduced by there results not from a virus but from the grammar of English, because it lacks signature properties of viruses. I show that the flat agreement seen in expletive constructions with conjoined associates can be explained as a p…
The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a sou…
The relationship between the frequency and the processing complexity of linguistic structure
Processing empty categories: A parallel approach
On the Nature of Default Case
This paper presents arguments that Universal Grammar includes a notion of "default case" different from that which has generally been assumed in the literature. It comprises the case forms used to spell out nominals that do not receive a case specification by assignment or other syntactic means. As such, it does not interact with the Case Filter, which is argued to be a purely syntactic constraint as opposed to a morphophonological one. It is sho…
A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010
English Expletive Constructions Are Not Infected
Sobin (1997) proposes an analysis of several "prestige" constructions of English under which they result from grammatical viruses. Counter to his claim, I argue that plural agreement in expletive constructions introduced by there results not from a virus but from the grammar of English, because it lacks signature properties of viruses. I show that the flat agreement seen in expletive constructions with conjoined associates can be explained as a p…
Synchronic and diachronic microvariation in English do
Parameterizing Passive Participle Movement
Burzio (1986: 154–158) observes the contrast in word order between the associate DP and the participle in expletive passives in English (1) versus passives with postverbal subjects in Italian (2). (1) a. There’ve been some men arrested. b. *There’ve been arrested some men. (2) a. *Sono stati alcuni uomini arrestati. are been some men arrested b. Sono stati arrestati alcuni uomini. are been arrested some men This contrast cannot be due to a pervas…
The relationship between the frequency and the processing complexity of linguistic structure
Processing empty categories: A parallel approach
Challenges for a theory of islands: A broader perspective on Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven
Subjacency characterizes a set of phenomena whose acquisition must be explained by any proposal for human language learning. We take a broader perspective than previous responses to Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven (2014), arguing that they have not shown that this UG principle is 'redundant' because their proposed alternative does not take into account firmly established constraints on A-bar dependencies. We illustrate a range of challenges for theori…
The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a sou…
Processing empty categories: A parallel approach
The relationship between the frequency and the processing complexity of linguistic structure
The Empirical Base of Linguistics: Grammaticality Judgments and Linguistic Methodology
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a sou…
Different rates of pronoun case error: Comments on Rispoli (1998)
Rispoli (1998) presents data to motivate a model of pronoun case errors in child English. His data consist of relative rates of occurrence of errors involving particular forms in the study of twenty-seven English children between the ages of 2;6 and 4;0. I show that his claim that overextensions of he and him are antagonistic cannot be maintained. I argue that his explanation for why her subjects are more frequent than other errors is insufficien…
English Expletive Constructions Are Not Infected
Sobin (1997) proposes an analysis of several "prestige" constructions of English under which they result from grammatical viruses. Counter to his claim, I argue that plural agreement in expletive constructions introduced by there results not from a virus but from the grammar of English, because it lacks signature properties of viruses. I show that the flat agreement seen in expletive constructions with conjoined associates can be explained as a p…
Productive inventory and case/agreement contingencies: A methodological note on Rispoli (1999)
Rispoli (1999) suggests that previous studies arguing for a contingency between the case of subject pronouns and the presence/absence of verbal agreement in the acquisition of English (e.g. Schütze, 1997) suffer from methodological problems, and presents new data that fail to support earlier findings. I show that Rispoli's methodology unnecessarily biases his study against finding the predicted contingencies: it fails to take account of children'…
On Korean Case Stacking: The varied functions of the particles ka and lul
Korean exhibits a phenomenon that has been dubbed case stacking, in which the nominative particle ka is optionally suffixed to the subject in addition to the dative particle eykey. Numerous authors have claimed that stacked ka represents the realization of structural nominative case assigned to subject position, independent of inherent dative case. Under this view, ka-stacking provides prima facie evidence that structural licensing (a.k.a. abstra…
On the Nature of Default Case
This paper presents arguments that Universal Grammar includes a notion of "default case" different from that which has generally been assumed in the literature. It comprises the case forms used to spell out nominals that do not receive a case specification by assignment or other syntactic means. As such, it does not interact with the Case Filter, which is argued to be a purely syntactic constraint as opposed to a morphophonological one. It is sho…
Parameterizing Passive Participle Movement
Burzio (1986: 154–158) observes the contrast in word order between the associate DP and the participle in expletive passives in English (1) versus passives with postverbal subjects in Italian (2). (1) a. There’ve been some men arrested. b. *There’ve been arrested some men. (2) a. *Sono stati alcuni uomini arrestati. are been some men arrested b. Sono stati arrestati alcuni uomini. are been arrested some men This contrast cannot be due to a pervas…
Synchronic and diachronic microvariation in English do
Web searches should supplement judgements, not supplant them
A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001-2010
Challenges for a theory of islands: A broader perspective on Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven
Subjacency characterizes a set of phenomena whose acquisition must be explained by any proposal for human language learning. We take a broader perspective than previous responses to Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven (2014), arguing that they have not shown that this UG principle is 'redundant' because their proposed alternative does not take into account firmly established constraints on A-bar dependencies. We illustrate a range of challenges for theori…
The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: A follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015)
This squib challenges Patterson & Caponigro's (2015, this journal) claim that there are few acceptable free relative clauses with who . We show that free relatives with who are generally acceptable when they are ‘transparent’ free relatives or complements of a copula, and add further nuance to their findings concerning how the degree of acceptability of free relatives with who varies according to positional factors
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