Ivan A Sag
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 746998 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ivan A Sag |
| PRENOMES | Ivan A |
| SOBRENOME | Sag |
| ASSINATURA | SAG I A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 467 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
Flexible Processing and the Design of Grammar
How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments? A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island effects, and they construe these findings as counterevidence to processing-based accounts of island effects. Here, we take up several problems with their methods, their findings, and their conclu…
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
English filler-gap constructions
This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation exhibited by English filler - gap constructions . It demonstrates that a detailed, fully explicit account of the observed variation is available within a framework embracing the notion 'grammatical construction'. This account, which explicates similarities and differences among topicalization, interrogatives, relatives, exclamatives, and comparative correlativ…
Cognitive constraints and island effects
Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for. Categorical syntactic accounts of island effects have persisted in spite of a wealth of data suggesting that island effects are not categorical in nature and that nonstructural manipulations that leave island structures intact can radically alter judgments of island violation…
La coordination et l'identité syntaxique des termes
Ivan A. Sag: The Identity of Conjoined Terms. The terms of a coordination can differ to a certain extent by certain propeities. e. g. part of speech, case or person. We propose that the correct description of such phenomena involves radical underspecification. We allow, for example, that an NP can be resolved as [ CASE case] or [ CASE directcase], even if, in the language in question, case and direct case can be further specified as nominative or…
Negation without Head-Movement
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction andAdjunction
Syntactic Theory
This second edition of Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis…
Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding
This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have different representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing different prominence orderings between the valence lists and argument structure, while forms like passives and causatives have nested argument structure lists. While binding theory and related …
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics or Movement
English relative clause constructions
This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations about dependency relations and clausal functions are factored into distinct dimensions contributing constraints to specific construction types in a multiple inheritance type hierarchy. The grammar presented here provides an account of extraction, pied p…
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Recent analyses of mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface inves-tigate e.g. modification of agentive nouns (Larson, 1998), modification of quantifying pronouns (Abney, 1987), or recursive modification (Kasper, to appear). Each of these analyses is tailored to a specific set of data, and it is not immediately obvious how they could be generalised to cover a larger set of data. I propose a unified analysis for these mismatches that attempts t…
Idioms
In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of idiomaticity, including, among others, conventionality and figuration. We propose to distinguish IDIOMATICALLY COMBINING EXPRESSIONS (e.g. take advantage, pull strings ), whose meanings-while conventional-are distributed among their parts, from IDIOMATIC PHRASES (e.g. kick …
An Integrated Theory of Complement Control
This paper presents an integrated theory of the syntax and semantics of complement control that treats unexpressed subjects in verbal and nominal constructions uniformly, in terms of semantic control constraints that are shown to apply across discourse as well. Our account includes an explanation of the long-standing problem of be allowed to ... exceptions to Visser's Generalization (that subject-control verbs do not passivize). Moreover, semanti…
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar provides the definitive exposition of the theory of grammar originally proposed by Gerald Gazdar and developed during half a dozen years' work with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. This long-awaited book contains both detailed specifications of the theory and extensive illustrations of its power to describe large parts of English grammar. Experts who wish to evaluate the theory and stu…
Coordination and how to distinguish categories
Elements of Discourse Understanding
Referential and quantificational indefinites
Auxiliaries and Related Phenomena in a Restrictive Theory of Grammar
This paper presents a description of an interestingly rich subset of English in terms of Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar, and compares this description with some other recent treatments. The domain covered includes the auxiliary-verb system together with a number of subsystems that crucially interact with the analysis of auxiliaries: Do so Ellipsis, VP Fronting, VP Negation, VP ‘Deletion’, Sentential Adverb Placement, and ‘Subject-Auxiliary …
Temporal Connectives and Logical Form
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 336-349
Elements of Discourse Understanding
Cognitive constraints and island effects
Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for. Categorical syntactic accounts of island effects have persisted in spite of a wealth of data suggesting that island effects are not categorical in nature and that nonstructural manipulations that leave island structures intact can radically alter judgments of island violation…
English relative clause constructions
This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations about dependency relations and clausal functions are factored into distinct dimensions contributing constraints to specific construction types in a multiple inheritance type hierarchy. The grammar presented here provides an account of extraction, pied p…
Idioms
In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of idiomaticity, including, among others, conventionality and figuration. We propose to distinguish IDIOMATICALLY COMBINING EXPRESSIONS (e.g. take advantage, pull strings ), whose meanings-while conventional-are distributed among their parts, from IDIOMATIC PHRASES (e.g. kick …
Coordination and how to distinguish categories
An Integrated Theory of Complement Control
This paper presents an integrated theory of the syntax and semantics of complement control that treats unexpressed subjects in verbal and nominal constructions uniformly, in terms of semantic control constraints that are shown to apply across discourse as well. Our account includes an explanation of the long-standing problem of be allowed to ... exceptions to Visser's Generalization (that subject-control verbs do not passivize). Moreover, semanti…
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics or Movement
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction andAdjunction
Auxiliaries and Related Phenomena in a Restrictive Theory of Grammar
This paper presents a description of an interestingly rich subset of English in terms of Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar, and compares this description with some other recent treatments. The domain covered includes the auxiliary-verb system together with a number of subsystems that crucially interact with the analysis of auxiliaries: Do so Ellipsis, VP Fronting, VP Negation, VP ‘Deletion’, Sentential Adverb Placement, and ‘Subject-Auxiliary …
Syntactic Theory
This second edition of Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis…
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
English filler-gap constructions
This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation exhibited by English filler - gap constructions . It demonstrates that a detailed, fully explicit account of the observed variation is available within a framework embracing the notion 'grammatical construction'. This account, which explicates similarities and differences among topicalization, interrogatives, relatives, exclamatives, and comparative correlativ…
Negation without Head-Movement
La coordination et l'identité syntaxique des termes
Ivan A. Sag: The Identity of Conjoined Terms. The terms of a coordination can differ to a certain extent by certain propeities. e. g. part of speech, case or person. We propose that the correct description of such phenomena involves radical underspecification. We allow, for example, that an NP can be resolved as [ CASE case] or [ CASE directcase], even if, in the language in question, case and direct case can be further specified as nominative or…
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Recent analyses of mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface inves-tigate e.g. modification of agentive nouns (Larson, 1998), modification of quantifying pronouns (Abney, 1987), or recursive modification (Kasper, to appear). Each of these analyses is tailored to a specific set of data, and it is not immediately obvious how they could be generalised to cover a larger set of data. I propose a unified analysis for these mismatches that attempts t…
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar provides the definitive exposition of the theory of grammar originally proposed by Gerald Gazdar and developed during half a dozen years' work with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. This long-awaited book contains both detailed specifications of the theory and extensive illustrations of its power to describe large parts of English grammar. Experts who wish to evaluate the theory and stu…
Temporal Connectives and Logical Form
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1979), pp. 336-349
Referential and quantificational indefinites
Auxiliaries and Related Phenomena in a Restrictive Theory of Grammar
This paper presents a description of an interestingly rich subset of English in terms of Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammar, and compares this description with some other recent treatments. The domain covered includes the auxiliary-verb system together with a number of subsystems that crucially interact with the analysis of auxiliaries: Do so Ellipsis, VP Fronting, VP Negation, VP ‘Deletion’, Sentential Adverb Placement, and ‘Subject-Auxiliary …
Elements of Discourse Understanding
Coordination and how to distinguish categories
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar provides the definitive exposition of the theory of grammar originally proposed by Gerald Gazdar and developed during half a dozen years' work with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. This long-awaited book contains both detailed specifications of the theory and extensive illustrations of its power to describe large parts of English grammar. Experts who wish to evaluate the theory and stu…
An Integrated Theory of Complement Control
This paper presents an integrated theory of the syntax and semantics of complement control that treats unexpressed subjects in verbal and nominal constructions uniformly, in terms of semantic control constraints that are shown to apply across discourse as well. Our account includes an explanation of the long-standing problem of be allowed to ... exceptions to Visser's Generalization (that subject-control verbs do not passivize). Moreover, semanti…
Idioms
In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of idiomaticity, including, among others, conventionality and figuration. We propose to distinguish IDIOMATICALLY COMBINING EXPRESSIONS (e.g. take advantage, pull strings ), whose meanings-while conventional-are distributed among their parts, from IDIOMATIC PHRASES (e.g. kick …
Une analyse sans catégories vides des phénomènes d'extraction
Janet Fodor, Ivan Sag : A traceless account of extraction phenomena Trace theory is an unquestioned part of transformational grammars and Governement and Binding theory. We show that theory external motivation for positing phonetically empty elements is in fact minimal, and no empirical evidence (syntactic, phonetic or psycholinguistic) can be found in favor of them in extraction contexts. We present an alternative view in Head-driven Phrase Stru…
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Recent analyses of mismatches at the syntax-semantics interface inves-tigate e.g. modification of agentive nouns (Larson, 1998), modification of quantifying pronouns (Abney, 1987), or recursive modification (Kasper, to appear). Each of these analyses is tailored to a specific set of data, and it is not immediately obvious how they could be generalised to cover a larger set of data. I propose a unified analysis for these mismatches that attempts t…
French Clitic Movement Without Clitics or Movement
English relative clause constructions
This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations about dependency relations and clausal functions are factored into distinct dimensions contributing constraints to specific construction types in a multiple inheritance type hierarchy. The grammar presented here provides an account of extraction, pied p…
Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding
This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have different representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing different prominence orderings between the valence lists and argument structure, while forms like passives and causatives have nested argument structure lists. While binding theory and related …
Syntactic Theory
This second edition of Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis…
Satisfying Constraints on Extraction andAdjunction
Negation without Head-Movement
La coordination et l'identité syntaxique des termes
Ivan A. Sag: The Identity of Conjoined Terms. The terms of a coordination can differ to a certain extent by certain propeities. e. g. part of speech, case or person. We propose that the correct description of such phenomena involves radical underspecification. We allow, for example, that an NP can be resolved as [ CASE case] or [ CASE directcase], even if, in the language in question, case and direct case can be further specified as nominative or…
English filler-gap constructions
This article delineates and analyzes the syntactic and semantic parameters of variation exhibited by English filler - gap constructions . It demonstrates that a detailed, fully explicit account of the observed variation is available within a framework embracing the notion 'grammatical construction'. This account, which explicates similarities and differences among topicalization, interrogatives, relatives, exclamatives, and comparative correlativ…
Cognitive constraints and island effects
Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for. Categorical syntactic accounts of island effects have persisted in spite of a wealth of data suggesting that island effects are not categorical in nature and that nonstructural manipulations that leave island structures intact can radically alter judgments of island violation…
How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments? A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island effects, and they construe these findings as counterevidence to processing-based accounts of island effects. Here, we take up several problems with their methods, their findings, and their conclu…
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
Flexible Processing and the Design of Grammar
Lessons from the English auxiliary system
The English auxiliary system exhibits many lexical exceptions and subregularities, and considerable dialectal variation, all of which are frequently omitted from generative analyses and discussions. This paper presents a detailed, movement-free account of the English Auxiliary System within Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2010, Michaelis 2011, Boas & Sag 2012) that utilizes techniques of lexicalist and construction-based analysis. The result…
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