Robert Pasternak
Biographic Data
| ID | 8759558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pasternak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pasternak |
| SIGNATURE | PASTERNAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3024-1900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Attitudes, aboutness, and indirect restriction
On its surface, a sentence like If Laura becomes a zombie, she wants you to shoot her looks like a plain conditional with the attitude want in its consequent. However, the most salient reading of this sentence is not about the desires of a hypothetical zombie-Laura. Rather, it asserts that the actual, non-zombie Laura has a certain restricted attitude : her present desires, when considering only possible states of affairs in which she becomes a z…
Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser
A common view in the theoretical literature is that quantifier raising (QR) is a clause-bounded operation. But in a paper published in Glossa, Wurmbrand (2018) argues that (i) QR is not clause-bounded, and the apparent clause-boundedness of QR is due to the human parser’s difficulty in processing extraclausal QR; and (ii) the relative difficulty of extraclausal QR depends on the size of the embedded clause from which QR takes place. She then prop…
Compositional trace conversion
In order to eliminate traces as stipulated grammatical objects, syntactic movement has been reformulated in terms of multiple-merge: it is the result of the same constituent being merged into the structure multiple times, using either copies or multidominance structures. In spite of their empirical and conceptual advantages, multiple-merge theories pose known challenges for the semantic interpretation of movement, as there are no variable-denotin…
Co-speech gesture projection
The nature of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures has been the subject of recent theoretical and experimental investigation. Such gestures have been reported to give rise to cosuppositional inferences that can project out of certain linguistic environments, much in the way that presuppositions of verbal expressions do (Schlenker 2018a; b). For example, a sentence like “John will not [use the stairs]_UP”, produced with a finger pointed…
Co-speech gesture projection
Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert 2014), co-speech gestures have the same semantic status as appositive relative clauses. According to the Cosuppositional analysis (Schlenker To appear a; b), co-speech gestures trigger a particular kind of presupposition. The sentence “John will not use the stairs”, produced with an UP gestu…
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Co-speech gesture projection
Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert 2014), co-speech gestures have the same semantic status as appositive relative clauses. According to the Cosuppositional analysis (Schlenker To appear a; b), co-speech gestures trigger a particular kind of presupposition. The sentence “John will not use the stairs”, produced with an UP gestu…
Co-speech gesture projection
The nature of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures has been the subject of recent theoretical and experimental investigation. Such gestures have been reported to give rise to cosuppositional inferences that can project out of certain linguistic environments, much in the way that presuppositions of verbal expressions do (Schlenker 2018a; b). For example, a sentence like “John will not [use the stairs]_UP”, produced with a finger pointed…
Compositional trace conversion
In order to eliminate traces as stipulated grammatical objects, syntactic movement has been reformulated in terms of multiple-merge: it is the result of the same constituent being merged into the structure multiple times, using either copies or multidominance structures. In spite of their empirical and conceptual advantages, multiple-merge theories pose known challenges for the semantic interpretation of movement, as there are no variable-denotin…
Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser
A common view in the theoretical literature is that quantifier raising (QR) is a clause-bounded operation. But in a paper published in Glossa, Wurmbrand (2018) argues that (i) QR is not clause-bounded, and the apparent clause-boundedness of QR is due to the human parser’s difficulty in processing extraclausal QR; and (ii) the relative difficulty of extraclausal QR depends on the size of the embedded clause from which QR takes place. She then prop…
Attitudes, aboutness, and indirect restriction
On its surface, a sentence like If Laura becomes a zombie, she wants you to shoot her looks like a plain conditional with the attitude want in its consequent. However, the most salient reading of this sentence is not about the desires of a hypothetical zombie-Laura. Rather, it asserts that the actual, non-zombie Laura has a certain restricted attitude : her present desires, when considering only possible states of affairs in which she becomes a z…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Gesture (2 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (2 works) · Information retrieval (2 works)