Ljiljana Progovac
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 751302 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ljiljana Progovac |
| PRENOMES | Ljiljana |
| SOBRENOME | Progovac |
| ASSINATURA | PROGOVAC L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8679-5809 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution
Ideophones stand out as promising constructions to be considered as linguistic “fossils”. Allegedly, this is due to some of their distinctive features, including their sound-symbolic nature, ample use of reduplication, reliance on the simplest combinatorial processes, attachment to emotional content, and presumed bootstrapping effects on language acquisition. These features might exhibit some continuity with primate communication systems, includi…
Hierarchical clause structure as a tool for cognitive advances in early childhood
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication
A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution
Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Reviewed by: Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky Ljiljana Progovac Why only us? Language and evolution. By Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780262034241. $22.95 (Hb). 1. Chomsky’s Knot It is a good thing that we linguists are discussing language evolution, for without linguists’ input, this important question cannot be properly addressed. Likewise, ‘like other…
Non‐sentential vs. Ellipsis Approaches
Non‐sententials (also known as fragments, elliptical structures) can be roughly characterized as free‐standing utterances, which are, or at least appear to be, smaller than a sentence. The persisting controversy regarding non‐sententials is the following: are they pretty much what you see, base‐generated words, phrases, or small clauses (non‐sentential analysis), or are they full finite sentences that have undergone deletion/ellipsis (sentential/…
What Use Is Half a Clause
A Syntax of Serbian Clausal Architecture
The Syntax of Nonsententials
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses ( Me ; Me Firs…
The Syntax of Nonsententials
Correlative Conjunctions and Events
Tsohatzidis (2001) attempts to “dispute the central thesis” of Progovac 1999 that correlative both induces a multiple–event interpretation whereas noncorrelative counterparts are ambiguous or vague between single–event and multiple–event readings. As far as I can see, there can be three types of counterexamples to Progovac: (i) noncorrelative constructions necessarily involving multiple–event interpretations (with no independent factor excluding …
Events and Economy of Coordination
I argue that reinforcement of the conjunction and with the correlative both has a precise and consistent semantic effect on the event structure: assignment of two separate (θ-) roles to the conjuncts, which gives rise to the interpretation of two grammatically encoded events/states. This effect is argued not to be the property of the meaning of the lexical item both itself but a computational property of the number of overt heads associated with …
Determiner phrase in a language without determiners (with apologies to Jim Huang 1982)
Serbo-Croatian (SC) is a language without articles, probably the only category of speech that has uncontroversially and crosslinguistically been argued to occupy the head of the Determiner Phrase (DP). This paper argues that even SC, a language without articles, projects a DP on top of NPs in argument positions. The strongest evidence comes from noun/pronoun asymmetries, where the pronouns precede, and nouns follow, certain intensifying adjective…
Negative and Positive Polarity
Subjunctive
Negative polarity
Determiner phrase in a language without determiners (with apologies to Jim Huang 1982)
Serbo-Croatian (SC) is a language without articles, probably the only category of speech that has uncontroversially and crosslinguistically been argued to occupy the head of the Determiner Phrase (DP). This paper argues that even SC, a language without articles, projects a DP on top of NPs in argument positions. The strongest evidence comes from noun/pronoun asymmetries, where the pronouns precede, and nouns follow, certain intensifying adjective…
Negative polarity
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication
Events and Economy of Coordination
I argue that reinforcement of the conjunction and with the correlative both has a precise and consistent semantic effect on the event structure: assignment of two separate (θ-) roles to the conjuncts, which gives rise to the interpretation of two grammatically encoded events/states. This effect is argued not to be the property of the meaning of the lexical item both itself but a computational property of the number of overt heads associated with …
Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Reviewed by: Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky Ljiljana Progovac Why only us? Language and evolution. By Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780262034241. $22.95 (Hb). 1. Chomsky’s Knot It is a good thing that we linguists are discussing language evolution, for without linguists’ input, this important question cannot be properly addressed. Likewise, ‘like other…
Negative polarity
Subjunctive
Negative and Positive Polarity
Determiner phrase in a language without determiners (with apologies to Jim Huang 1982)
Serbo-Croatian (SC) is a language without articles, probably the only category of speech that has uncontroversially and crosslinguistically been argued to occupy the head of the Determiner Phrase (DP). This paper argues that even SC, a language without articles, projects a DP on top of NPs in argument positions. The strongest evidence comes from noun/pronoun asymmetries, where the pronouns precede, and nouns follow, certain intensifying adjective…
Events and Economy of Coordination
I argue that reinforcement of the conjunction and with the correlative both has a precise and consistent semantic effect on the event structure: assignment of two separate (θ-) roles to the conjuncts, which gives rise to the interpretation of two grammatically encoded events/states. This effect is argued not to be the property of the meaning of the lexical item both itself but a computational property of the number of overt heads associated with …
Correlative Conjunctions and Events
Tsohatzidis (2001) attempts to “dispute the central thesis” of Progovac 1999 that correlative both induces a multiple–event interpretation whereas noncorrelative counterparts are ambiguous or vague between single–event and multiple–event readings. As far as I can see, there can be three types of counterexamples to Progovac: (i) noncorrelative constructions necessarily involving multiple–event interpretations (with no independent factor excluding …
The Syntax of Nonsententials
This volume brings the data that many in formal linguistics have dismissed as peripheral straight into the core of syntactic theory. By bringing together experts from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, language acquisition, aphasia, and pidgin and creole studies, the volume makes a multidisciplinary case for the existence of nonsententials, which are analyzed in various chapters as root phrases and small clauses ( Me ; Me Firs…
The Syntax of Nonsententials
A Syntax of Serbian Clausal Architecture
What Use Is Half a Clause
Non‐sentential vs. Ellipsis Approaches
Non‐sententials (also known as fragments, elliptical structures) can be roughly characterized as free‐standing utterances, which are, or at least appear to be, smaller than a sentence. The persisting controversy regarding non‐sententials is the following: are they pretty much what you see, base‐generated words, phrases, or small clauses (non‐sentential analysis), or are they full finite sentences that have undergone deletion/ellipsis (sentential/…
Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Reviewed by: Why only us? Language and evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky Ljiljana Progovac Why only us? Language and evolution. By Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780262034241. $22.95 (Hb). 1. Chomsky’s Knot It is a good thing that we linguists are discussing language evolution, for without linguists’ input, this important question cannot be properly addressed. Likewise, ‘like other…
A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution
A four-stage model for language evolution under the effects of human self-domestication
Hierarchical clause structure as a tool for cognitive advances in early childhood
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution
Ideophones stand out as promising constructions to be considered as linguistic “fossils”. Allegedly, this is due to some of their distinctive features, including their sound-symbolic nature, ample use of reduplication, reliance on the simplest combinatorial processes, attachment to emotional content, and presumed bootstrapping effects on language acquisition. These features might exhibit some continuity with primate communication systems, includi…
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