Ad Neeleman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 808816 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ad Neeleman |
| PRENOMES | Ad |
| SOBRENOME | Neeleman |
| ASSINATURA | NEELEMAN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0850-9122 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Linear asymmetries and incremental parsing
Linear asymmetries pose a challenge for syntactic theory but may yield to an explanation in terms of sentence parsing, given the inherent left-to-right nature of this process. We therefore explore the option of a parsing-based account of Greenberg’s (1963) universal 20. Universal 20 describes a word-order asymmetry in noun phrases that can be captured if movement of the noun is exclusively leftward (Cinque 2005 and Abels & Neeleman 2012). Our acc…
Extraction asymmetries show that type A coordination is adjunction
Ross (1967) observed that the coordinate structure constraint can be violated in certain semantically asymmetric structures. In this article we consider one of these structures, namely type A coordination, in detail (the terminology is from Lakoff 1986; an example is Here's the whisky I went to the store and bought ). We present experimental evidence showing that the pattern of argument and adjunct extraction from type A coordinate structures mat…
Extraction asymmetries show that type A coordination is adjunction
Scope Freezing Restricts Binding in Italian Right-Dislocation
Binding into right-dislocated categories is generally possible in Italian but fails when the binder is a direct object and the right-dislocated constituent an indirect object or a PP doubled by ci ‘with him/her’, even though it is otherwise perfectly acceptable for a direct object to bind a pronoun or anaphor contained in an indirect object or a PP. These data fall into place once it is recognized that cliticization of an indirect object or a PP …
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising
We argue, following Barros and Vicente (2011), that right-node raising (RNR) results from either ellipsis or multidominance. Four considerations support this claim. (a) RNR has properties of ellipsis and of multidominance. (b) Where these are combined, the structure results from repeated RNR: a pivot created through ellipsis contains a right-peripheral secondary pivot created through multidominance. (c) In certain circumstances, one or the other …
Subordination and binary branching
Syntactic representations are overwhelmingly asymmetric and binary branching. We develop an account of this based on the notion that subordination must be licensed through the discharge of a unique selectional requirement. The resulting theory predicts that symmetric structures, if they exist, will allown-ary branching. We argue that this prediction is borne out. (i) Core properties of coordination can be explained if coordinate structures are sy…
The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles
Among the scalar usages of only , there is one that has a temporal dimension. In Carla understood the problem only on Sunday , for instance, Sunday is considered late for Carla to have understood the problem. In this paper, we explore the interpretation and distribution of temporal only along with other focus particles that permit a temporal reading. We focus on the Dutch counterpart of temporal only , pas (see Barbiers 1995). This particle is fo…
PP-Extraposition and Precedence
This squib argues that NPI-licensing and variable binding are subject to a precedence constraint. The argument is based on Dutch, which allows extraposition of PPs. There is substantial evidence that when multiple PPs appear after the verb, their order corresponds to reverse c-command (that is, postverbal PPs c-command postverbal PPs to their left). Nonetheless, variable binding and NPI-licensing in the postverbal domain are possible only when th…
PP-Extraposition and the Order of Adverbials in English
In English, adverbials may intervene between the verb and a selected PP. We consider three analyses of this fact: the traditional account, that the PP shifts rightward across a right-adjoined adverbial ( Stowell 1981 ); an alternative account, that the verb moves leftward across a left-adjoined adverbial ( Pesetsky 1989 , Johnson 1991 ); and a hybrid account that assumes both extraposition and verb raising. We argue that the order of postverbal a…
On Matrix-Clause Intervention in Accusative-and-Infinitive Constructions
One of the strongest arguments for a raising-to-object analysis of English accusative-and-infinitive constructions comes from the fact that adverbials and particles belonging to the matrix clause can intervene between the embedded subject and the embedded predicate. We reevaluate this argument in the light of a neglected alternative analysis, namely that matrix-clause intervention is the result of extraposition of the embedded predicate. We show …
Syntactic Haplology
It has frequently been observed that languages exhibit a resistance against accidental repetition of morphemes, a phenomenon reminiscent of the Obligatory Contour Principle in phonology. While languages vary in the strategies they exhibit in dealing with accidental repetition of free morphemes, these strategies consistently take the form of filters that mention both phonological and syntactic properties of the relevant structure. The minimal phon…
AP Adjacency as a Precedence Constraint
Attributive APs precede certain other categories (PPs, genitive DPs, etc.), when the noun precedes both ( Giurgea 2009 , Adger 2012 ). This observation may suggest an analysis in terms of X-bar-style "structural layering." However, such an account faces several problems: (a) in languages with PP-AP-N order, scrambling of the AP is permitted; (b) in languages with AP-N-PP or PP-N-AP order, there is evidence that the AP can c-command the PP, as wel…
Person features and syncretism
Subset controllers in agreement relations
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Linear Asymmetries and the LCA
Kayne (1994)was instrumental in putting linear asymmetries on the generative research agenda. His Linear Correspondence Axiom is seen as a restrictive, conceptually attractive proposal supported by a wealth of empirical evidence. In this paper, we take issue with this assessment. (i) We show that for every structure that violates the LCA, there is an LCA-compatible counterpart, including rightward movement structures and structures with rightward…
Ascending and Descending VPs in English
We argue that English allows both rightward-descending VP shell structures and more traditional rightward-ascending VPs. The choice between these depends on case theory and economy. Case theory triggers VP shell formation whenever the verb is merged with a DP object after it has been merged with some other category. The reason is that VP shell formation allows verb and object to surface in adjacent positions, a prerequisite for case licensing in …
Information-structural restrictions on Ā-scrambling
Ā-scrambling in Dutch gives rise to ungrammaticality if it places an element subordinate in information structure in a position where it c-commands a superordinate element, even though a base-generated configuration of this type is well-formed. We propose an account of this phenomenon based on two claims: (i) Ā-scrambling is a scope-marking movement and (ii) scope-extending movement creates a barrier for QR. The bulk of our evidence comes from in…
Nihilism masquerading as progress
A Local Encoding of Syntactic Dependencies and Its Consequences for the Theory of Movement
In this paper we consider the impact of the theory of phrase structure for the encoding of syntactic dependencies and, in particular, for the way movement is represented. We show that the conception of movement as copying plus deletion (the so-called copy theory of movement) is incompatible with well-motivated conditions on phrase structure. The alternative we develop is a local encoding mediated by percolation of selectional requirements compara…
Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian
July 01 2009 Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Elena Titov Elena Titov University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London. Elena Titov University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 …
Dutch scrambling and the nature of discourse templates
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
On syntactic and phonological representations
Word-Formation in Optimality Theory
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
Linear Asymmetries and the LCA
Kayne (1994)was instrumental in putting linear asymmetries on the generative research agenda. His Linear Correspondence Axiom is seen as a restrictive, conceptually attractive proposal supported by a wealth of empirical evidence. In this paper, we take issue with this assessment. (i) We show that for every structure that violates the LCA, there is an LCA-compatible counterpart, including rightward movement structures and structures with rightward…
Context-Sensitive Spell-Out
A Local Encoding of Syntactic Dependencies and Its Consequences for the Theory of Movement
In this paper we consider the impact of the theory of phrase structure for the encoding of syntactic dependencies and, in particular, for the way movement is represented. We show that the conception of movement as copying plus deletion (the so-called copy theory of movement) is incompatible with well-motivated conditions on phrase structure. The alternative we develop is a local encoding mediated by percolation of selectional requirements compara…
The Configurational Matrix
This article presents a theory of grammatical dependencies that is in accordance with basic assumptions of bare phrase structure theory. It explains Koster's (1987) configurational matrix, the observation that such dependencies share five properties: c-command by the antecedent, obligatoriness, uniqueness of the antecedent, nonuniqueness of the dependent, and locality. The theory is based on two primitive syntactic relations (copying and function…
Ascending and Descending VPs in English
We argue that English allows both rightward-descending VP shell structures and more traditional rightward-ascending VPs. The choice between these depends on case theory and economy. Case theory triggers VP shell formation whenever the verb is merged with a DP object after it has been merged with some other category. The reason is that VP shell formation allows verb and object to surface in adjacent positions, a prerequisite for case licensing in …
Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian
July 01 2009 Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Elena Titov Elena Titov University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London. Elena Titov University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 …
The balance between syntax and morphology
Subset controllers in agreement relations
Superman Sentences
January 01 2004 Superman Sentences In Special Collection: CogNet Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kriszta Szendrői Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Online Issn: 1530-9150 P…
Optimal Questions
On Matrix-Clause Intervention in Accusative-and-Infinitive Constructions
One of the strongest arguments for a raising-to-object analysis of English accusative-and-infinitive constructions comes from the fact that adverbials and particles belonging to the matrix clause can intervene between the embedded subject and the embedded predicate. We reevaluate this argument in the light of a neglected alternative analysis, namely that matrix-clause intervention is the result of extraposition of the embedded predicate. We show …
AP Adjacency as a Precedence Constraint
Attributive APs precede certain other categories (PPs, genitive DPs, etc.), when the noun precedes both ( Giurgea 2009 , Adger 2012 ). This observation may suggest an analysis in terms of X-bar-style "structural layering." However, such an account faces several problems: (a) in languages with PP-AP-N order, scrambling of the AP is permitted; (b) in languages with AP-N-PP or PP-N-AP order, there is evidence that the AP can c-command the PP, as wel…
Predication, verb movement and the distribution of expletives
Pp-Complements
Subordination and binary branching
Syntactic representations are overwhelmingly asymmetric and binary branching. We develop an account of this based on the notion that subordination must be licensed through the discharge of a unique selectional requirement. The resulting theory predicts that symmetric structures, if they exist, will allown-ary branching. We argue that this prediction is borne out. (i) Core properties of coordination can be explained if coordinate structures are sy…
Person features and syncretism
On syntactic and phonological representations
PP-Extraposition and the Order of Adverbials in English
In English, adverbials may intervene between the verb and a selected PP. We consider three analyses of this fact: the traditional account, that the PP shifts rightward across a right-adjoined adverbial ( Stowell 1981 ); an alternative account, that the verb moves leftward across a left-adjoined adverbial ( Pesetsky 1989 , Johnson 1991 ); and a hybrid account that assumes both extraposition and verb raising. We argue that the order of postverbal a…
Conflict resolution in passive formation
Scope Freezing Restricts Binding in Italian Right-Dislocation
Binding into right-dislocated categories is generally possible in Italian but fails when the binder is a direct object and the right-dislocated constituent an indirect object or a PP doubled by ci ‘with him/her’, even though it is otherwise perfectly acceptable for a direct object to bind a pronoun or anaphor contained in an indirect object or a PP. These data fall into place once it is recognized that cliticization of an indirect object or a PP …
What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising
We argue, following Barros and Vicente (2011), that right-node raising (RNR) results from either ellipsis or multidominance. Four considerations support this claim. (a) RNR has properties of ellipsis and of multidominance. (b) Where these are combined, the structure results from repeated RNR: a pivot created through ellipsis contains a right-peripheral secondary pivot created through multidominance. (c) In certain circumstances, one or the other …
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Nihilism masquerading as progress
Case Theory and the Diachrony of Complex Predicates in Dutch
The balance between syntax and morphology
Optimal questions
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Pp-Complements
Optimal Questions
Conflict resolution in passive formation
Transparent Adjuncts
This article explores an unexpected extraction pattern out of adjuncts, as in What did John die whistling? and What did John hurt himself trying to fix? in English. This type of extraction is possible if the adjuncts are predicative and the matrix verbs are either ergative or (inherent) reflexive. The predicativity of the adjuncts is essential in getting these adjuncts interpreted as arguments; this requires coindexation with a thematic role of t…
Predication, verb movement and the distribution of expletives
The Configurational Matrix
This article presents a theory of grammatical dependencies that is in accordance with basic assumptions of bare phrase structure theory. It explains Koster's (1987) configurational matrix, the observation that such dependencies share five properties: c-command by the antecedent, obligatoriness, uniqueness of the antecedent, nonuniqueness of the dependent, and locality. The theory is based on two primitive syntactic relations (copying and function…
Context-Sensitive Spell-Out
Beyond Morphology
This book proposes a theory of the syntax-morphology interface. A radically modular view of grammar is defended: the grammar contains separate 'macromodules' that deal with the wellformedness of syntactic, phonological, and semantic structures, respectively. The structures produced in the respective macromodules are not derivationally related. Rather there is a set of correspondence rules that regulate, for example, what parts of a syntactic stru…
Degree expressions
Superman Sentences
January 01 2004 Superman Sentences In Special Collection: CogNet Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kriszta Szendrői Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London Kriszta Szendrői UiL OTS, Utrecht University Online Issn: 1530-9150 P…
Word-Formation in Optimality Theory
On syntactic and phonological representations
Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This generalization can for the most part be derived from three assumptions. (a) Spell-out rules for …
Dutch scrambling and the nature of discourse templates
Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian
July 01 2009 Focus, Contrast, and Stress in Russian Ad Neeleman, Ad Neeleman University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Elena Titov Elena Titov University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ad Neeleman University College London. Elena Titov University College London. Online Issn: 1530-9150 Print Issn: 0024-3892 © 2009 …
Information-structural restrictions on Ā-scrambling
Ā-scrambling in Dutch gives rise to ungrammaticality if it places an element subordinate in information structure in a position where it c-commands a superordinate element, even though a base-generated configuration of this type is well-formed. We propose an account of this phenomenon based on two claims: (i) Ā-scrambling is a scope-marking movement and (ii) scope-extending movement creates a barrier for QR. The bulk of our evidence comes from in…
Nihilism masquerading as progress
A Local Encoding of Syntactic Dependencies and Its Consequences for the Theory of Movement
In this paper we consider the impact of the theory of phrase structure for the encoding of syntactic dependencies and, in particular, for the way movement is represented. We show that the conception of movement as copying plus deletion (the so-called copy theory of movement) is incompatible with well-motivated conditions on phrase structure. The alternative we develop is a local encoding mediated by percolation of selectional requirements compara…
Agreement Weakening at PF
Benmamoun and Lorimor (2006) dispute the claim made in Ackema and Neeleman 2003 that certain agreement alternations in Standard Arabic, and various related phenomena, can successfully be analyzed in terms of postsyntactic spell-out rules that are sensitive to prosodic structure. In this reply, we argue that the data discussed by Benmamoun and Lorimor do not warrant their conclusion, and in fact provide further evidence in favor of our original an…
Linear Asymmetries and the LCA
Kayne (1994)was instrumental in putting linear asymmetries on the generative research agenda. His Linear Correspondence Axiom is seen as a restrictive, conceptually attractive proposal supported by a wealth of empirical evidence. In this paper, we take issue with this assessment. (i) We show that for every structure that violates the LCA, there is an LCA-compatible counterpart, including rightward movement structures and structures with rightward…
Ascending and Descending VPs in English
We argue that English allows both rightward-descending VP shell structures and more traditional rightward-ascending VPs. The choice between these depends on case theory and economy. Case theory triggers VP shell formation whenever the verb is merged with a DP object after it has been merged with some other category. The reason is that VP shell formation allows verb and object to surface in adjacent positions, a prerequisite for case licensing in …
Person features and syncretism
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