Edith Aldridge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1497903 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edith Aldridge |
| PRENOMES | Edith |
| SOBRENOME | Aldridge |
| ASSINATURA | ALDRIDGE E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
C-T inheritance and relativization in Late Archaic Chinese
This paper proposes an analysis of the subject/non-subject relativization asymmetry in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). The primary focus is the non-subject relativization marker 所 suǒ, which surfaces between the subject and the VP within the relative clause. This marker does not appear in subject relative clauses. I propose that the difference between subject and non-subject relatives in LAC is in the number of projections in the C/TP layer. If only …
Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages
This paper develops the proposal put forth by Aldridge ( 2015 , 2016) for the emergence of ergative alignment in a first-order subgroup of the Austronesian family. I first provide new evidence for reconstructing Proto-Austronesian (PAn) as accusative rather than ergative. I then propose a significantly revised approach to Aldridge’s proposed reanalysis. On the basis of evidence from Tsou, I propose that the reanalysis took place in biclausal cons…
The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses
Two types of alignment change in nominalizations
This paper investigates two instances of alignment change, both of which resulted from reanalysis of a nominalized embedded clause type, in which the external argument was marked with genitive case and the internal argument was focused. We show that a subject marked with genitive case in the early development of Austronesian languages became ergative-marked when object relative clauses in cleft constructions were reanalyzed as transitive root cla…
Labeling and verb-initial word order in Seediq
A minimalist approach to the emergence of ergativity in Austronesian languages
This paper proposes a novel reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian as a language with accusative alignment, in contrast to previous analyses, which have reconstructed PAn with some type of ergative system. The methodology employed in this paper also departs from previous work in basing the proposal on syntactic change rather than on phonological or morphological comparison. In the account of argument licensing in the Minimalist Program, nominative …
Object relative clauses in Archaic Chinese
This article proposes that Late Archaic Chinese object relative clauses were reduced relative clauses consisting of a TP dominated by DP. They contained a functional morpheme suo , which attracted an operator to the edge of the vP before moving to T in order to provide T with an [N] feature that could be selected by D. The embedded subject moved to the specifier of the nominalized T, where it valued genitive case with D under Agree. The reduced n…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part I
This is the first of two articles presenting a brief overview of Chinese historical syntax from the Pre-Archaic period to Middle Chinese. The phenomena under examination in the two papers are primarily aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structu…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part II
This is the second article in a two-part introduction to Chinese historical syntax. The previous article introduces aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structure alternations like active and passive. Each of these characteristics is related to m…
Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog
Neg-to-Q
This paper proposes a diachronic analysis of the grammaticalization of a marker of negation into a yes/no question particle in Chinese. I propose that the input to the reanalysis was a vP-neg-vP disjunctive question in which the second vP was projected by a negative auxiliary. Head movement of this auxiliary to the head of an immediately dominating disjunction phrase allowed the negator to enter into an Agree relation with interrogative C and che…
Continuity and change in grammar
Clause-internal wh-movement in Archaic Chinese
Minimalist Questions for the Nominalist Analysis of Tagalog Syntax
Generative Approaches to Ergativity
This article surveys the principal generative syntactic analyses that have been proposed for ergativity, found primarily in Inuit, Austronesian, Mayan, and Pama-Nyungan language families. The main puzzle for generative grammar is how to analyze the behavior of ergative and absolutive arguments in terms of the grammatical functions of subject and object. I show in this article that early approaches tend to treat the absolutive uniformly as a subje…
Phase-based account of extraction in Indonesian
Antipassive and specificity in Tagalog
It is common knowledge in the field of Philippine linguistics that an ang-marked direct object in a non-actor focus clause must be definite or generic, while a ng-marked object in an actor focus clause typically receives a nonspecific interpretation. However, in contexts like wh-questions, the oblique object in an antipassive may be interpreted as specific, as noted by Schachter & Otanes (1972), Maclachlan & Nakamura (1997), Rackowski (2002), and…
Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation
October 01 2003 Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation In Special Collection: CogNet Edith Aldridge Edith Aldridge Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Edith Aldridge Cornell University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34 (4): 631–640. https://doi.org/10.1162/00243890…
Hentai Kambun Perspective on Short Scrambling
Generative Approaches to Ergativity
This article surveys the principal generative syntactic analyses that have been proposed for ergativity, found primarily in Inuit, Austronesian, Mayan, and Pama-Nyungan language families. The main puzzle for generative grammar is how to analyze the behavior of ergative and absolutive arguments in terms of the grammatical functions of subject and object. I show in this article that early approaches tend to treat the absolutive uniformly as a subje…
Phase-based account of extraction in Indonesian
Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog
Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation
October 01 2003 Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation In Special Collection: CogNet Edith Aldridge Edith Aldridge Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Edith Aldridge Cornell University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34 (4): 631–640. https://doi.org/10.1162/00243890…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part I
This is the first of two articles presenting a brief overview of Chinese historical syntax from the Pre-Archaic period to Middle Chinese. The phenomena under examination in the two papers are primarily aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structu…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part II
This is the second article in a two-part introduction to Chinese historical syntax. The previous article introduces aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structure alternations like active and passive. Each of these characteristics is related to m…
Hentai Kambun Perspective on Short Scrambling
Antipassive and specificity in Tagalog
It is common knowledge in the field of Philippine linguistics that an ang-marked direct object in a non-actor focus clause must be definite or generic, while a ng-marked object in an actor focus clause typically receives a nonspecific interpretation. However, in contexts like wh-questions, the oblique object in an antipassive may be interpreted as specific, as noted by Schachter & Otanes (1972), Maclachlan & Nakamura (1997), Rackowski (2002), and…
Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation
October 01 2003 Remnant Movement in Tagalog Relative Clause Formation In Special Collection: CogNet Edith Aldridge Edith Aldridge Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Edith Aldridge Cornell University Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34 (4): 631–640. https://doi.org/10.1162/00243890…
Generative Approaches to Ergativity
This article surveys the principal generative syntactic analyses that have been proposed for ergativity, found primarily in Inuit, Austronesian, Mayan, and Pama-Nyungan language families. The main puzzle for generative grammar is how to analyze the behavior of ergative and absolutive arguments in terms of the grammatical functions of subject and object. I show in this article that early approaches tend to treat the absolutive uniformly as a subje…
Phase-based account of extraction in Indonesian
Minimalist Questions for the Nominalist Analysis of Tagalog Syntax
Continuity and change in grammar
Clause-internal wh-movement in Archaic Chinese
Neg-to-Q
This paper proposes a diachronic analysis of the grammaticalization of a marker of negation into a yes/no question particle in Chinese. I propose that the input to the reanalysis was a vP-neg-vP disjunctive question in which the second vP was projected by a negative auxiliary. Head movement of this auxiliary to the head of an immediately dominating disjunction phrase allowed the negator to enter into an Agree relation with interrogative C and che…
Antipassive and ergativity in Tagalog
Object relative clauses in Archaic Chinese
This article proposes that Late Archaic Chinese object relative clauses were reduced relative clauses consisting of a TP dominated by DP. They contained a functional morpheme suo , which attracted an operator to the edge of the vP before moving to T in order to provide T with an [N] feature that could be selected by D. The embedded subject moved to the specifier of the nominalized T, where it valued genitive case with D under Agree. The reduced n…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part I
This is the first of two articles presenting a brief overview of Chinese historical syntax from the Pre-Archaic period to Middle Chinese. The phenomena under examination in the two papers are primarily aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structu…
Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part II
This is the second article in a two-part introduction to Chinese historical syntax. The previous article introduces aspects of pre-medieval grammar which differ markedly from modern Chinese varieties, specifically fronting of object NPs to preverbal position, the asymmetry between subject and object relative clause formation, and the encoding of argument structure alternations like active and passive. Each of these characteristics is related to m…
A minimalist approach to the emergence of ergativity in Austronesian languages
This paper proposes a novel reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian as a language with accusative alignment, in contrast to previous analyses, which have reconstructed PAn with some type of ergative system. The methodology employed in this paper also departs from previous work in basing the proposal on syntactic change rather than on phonological or morphological comparison. In the account of argument licensing in the Minimalist Program, nominative …
Labeling and verb-initial word order in Seediq
Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages
This paper develops the proposal put forth by Aldridge ( 2015 , 2016) for the emergence of ergative alignment in a first-order subgroup of the Austronesian family. I first provide new evidence for reconstructing Proto-Austronesian (PAn) as accusative rather than ergative. I then propose a significantly revised approach to Aldridge’s proposed reanalysis. On the basis of evidence from Tsou, I propose that the reanalysis took place in biclausal cons…
The syntax of pronoun fronting in Late Archaic Chinese negated clauses
Two types of alignment change in nominalizations
This paper investigates two instances of alignment change, both of which resulted from reanalysis of a nominalized embedded clause type, in which the external argument was marked with genitive case and the internal argument was focused. We show that a subject marked with genitive case in the early development of Austronesian languages became ergative-marked when object relative clauses in cleft constructions were reanalyzed as transitive root cla…
C-T inheritance and relativization in Late Archaic Chinese
This paper proposes an analysis of the subject/non-subject relativization asymmetry in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). The primary focus is the non-subject relativization marker 所 suǒ, which surfaces between the subject and the VP within the relative clause. This marker does not appear in subject relative clauses. I propose that the difference between subject and non-subject relatives in LAC is in the number of projections in the C/TP layer. If only …
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