Roumyana Pancheva
Biographic Data
| ID | 951116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roumyana Pancheva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roumyana |
| FAMILY NAME | Pancheva |
| SIGNATURE | PANCHEVA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Orientation of Evidentials in Attitude Contexts: A Case Study Based on Narratives in Paraguayan Guarani
This paper examines the orientation of evidentials in complements of attitude verbs, with Paraguayan Guarani evidential ra'e as a case study. It argues that embedded evidentials can be directed either towards the speaker or towards a matrix attitude-holder argument (e.g., the subject of the attitude verb) and that a syntactic representation of the evidence-acquisition event, with its pronominal subject, in the lower end of the CP field, is well-p…
No tense: Temporality in the grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
On the role of person features in the evidential-temporal connection
The present article argues that temporality can be computed indirectly via evidentiality, and that this is the case for Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language. To model the evidential–temporal connection, we employ features from the domains of person ( author, participant ) and general deixis ( proximate, distal ). We discuss in detail the case of two evidential morphemes: indirect evidential ra'e and reportative raka'e. We argue that these par…
The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion
Comparative constructions like More people have been to Russia than I have are reported to be acceptable and meaningful by native speakers of English; yet, upon closer reflection, they are judged to be incoherent. This mismatch between initial perception and more considered judgment challenges the idea that we perceive sentences veridically, and interpret them fully; it is thus potentially revealing about the relationship between grammar and lang…
The Person Case Constraint: The syntactic encoding of perspective
Conditionals
We provide a survey of major issues in the syntax of conditionals, advancing the view that if ‐clauses are free relatives of possible worlds. Similarly to the more familiar instances of free relatives of individuals, (i) conditional clauses likely involve clause‐internal operator‐movement to [SpecCP]; (ii) they receive the interpretation of definite descriptions; and (iii) they may participate in correlative structures as happens in the subcase o…
Implicit Arguments
This chapter surveys the environments which have been claimed to involve implicit arguments and raises questions concerning the formal status of these entities. The conclusion is that implicit arguments do not form a unified class, varying on features such as the ability to bind and to control, and their quantificational force. The chapter focuses on the diagnostics that are used to motivate and identify implicit arguments and how one might disti…
A formal characterization of person-based alignment: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní
Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events
This squib investigates parallels between nominal and verbal comparatives. Building on key insights of Hackl (2000) and Bale & Barner (2009), we show that more behaves uniformly when it combines with nominal and verbal predicates: (i) it cannot combine with singular count NPs or perfective telic VPs; (ii) grammatical properties of the predicates determine the scale of comparison—plural marked NPs and habitual VPs are compared on a scale of cardin…
The Rise and Fall of Second-position Clitics
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
The Person Case Constraint: The syntactic encoding of perspective
A formal characterization of person-based alignment: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní
The Rise and Fall of Second-position Clitics
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations
An Event-Related fMRI Study of Syntactic and Semantic Violations
Late Merger of Degree Clauses
In this article, we propose that degree heads and degree clauses form a constituent not at the point where the degree head is merged, but after QR of the degree head and countercyclic merger of the degree clause. We derive a generalization originally outlined in Williams 1974 that the scope of the comparative degree quantifier is exactly as high as the site of attachment of the degree clause. This generalization is shown to follow from the deriva…
The Rise and Fall of Second-position Clitics
Measuring and Comparing Individuals and Events
This squib investigates parallels between nominal and verbal comparatives. Building on key insights of Hackl (2000) and Bale & Barner (2009), we show that more behaves uniformly when it combines with nominal and verbal predicates: (i) it cannot combine with singular count NPs or perfective telic VPs; (ii) grammatical properties of the predicates determine the scale of comparison—plural marked NPs and habitual VPs are compared on a scale of cardin…
Conditionals
We provide a survey of major issues in the syntax of conditionals, advancing the view that if ‐clauses are free relatives of possible worlds. Similarly to the more familiar instances of free relatives of individuals, (i) conditional clauses likely involve clause‐internal operator‐movement to [SpecCP]; (ii) they receive the interpretation of definite descriptions; and (iii) they may participate in correlative structures as happens in the subcase o…
Implicit Arguments
This chapter surveys the environments which have been claimed to involve implicit arguments and raises questions concerning the formal status of these entities. The conclusion is that implicit arguments do not form a unified class, varying on features such as the ability to bind and to control, and their quantificational force. The chapter focuses on the diagnostics that are used to motivate and identify implicit arguments and how one might disti…
A formal characterization of person-based alignment: The case of Paraguayan Guaraní
The Anatomy of a Comparative Illusion
Comparative constructions like More people have been to Russia than I have are reported to be acceptable and meaningful by native speakers of English; yet, upon closer reflection, they are judged to be incoherent. This mismatch between initial perception and more considered judgment challenges the idea that we perceive sentences veridically, and interpret them fully; it is thus potentially revealing about the relationship between grammar and lang…
The Person Case Constraint: The syntactic encoding of perspective
On the role of person features in the evidential-temporal connection
The present article argues that temporality can be computed indirectly via evidentiality, and that this is the case for Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language. To model the evidential–temporal connection, we employ features from the domains of person ( author, participant ) and general deixis ( proximate, distal ). We discuss in detail the case of two evidential morphemes: indirect evidential ra'e and reportative raka'e. We argue that these par…
No tense: Temporality in the grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
The Orientation of Evidentials in Attitude Contexts: A Case Study Based on Narratives in Paraguayan Guarani
This paper examines the orientation of evidentials in complements of attitude verbs, with Paraguayan Guarani evidential ra'e as a case study. It argues that embedded evidentials can be directed either towards the speaker or towards a matrix attitude-holder argument (e.g., the subject of the attitude verb) and that a syntactic representation of the evidence-acquisition event, with its pronominal subject, in the lower end of the CP field, is well-p…
Computer Science (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Syntax (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works)