A morphological analysis shows that the inflection of Irish prepositions involves more than the a... more A morphological analysis shows that the inflection of Irish prepositions involves more than the attachment of pronominal endings to a stem. Some paradigmatic regularities suggest that inflecting prepositions have an abstract morphological agreement marker, absent in the syntax; pronominal endings are just one way of realizing it. Apart form the immediate empirical results, a morphological approach to prepositional conjugation can provide new insights into the syntactic questions posed by Irish inflection. Introduction In all dialects of Irish, and indeed of Goidelic and Celtic, prepositions have both a base form and a set of inflected forms. The paradigms in (2) and (3), respectively from the Connacht and Munster areas (from De Bhaldraithe 1997:141, 143 and Ó Sé 2000:198, 204), illustrate two realizations of the orthographic standard set in (1): (1) le "with" ag "at" 1sg liom agam 2sg leat agat 3sg masc. leis aige 3sg fem. léi aici 1pl linn againn 2pl libh agaibh...
This chapter examines the relation between the structure of words as linguistic objects and their... more This chapter examines the relation between the structure of words as linguistic objects and their conceptual content. It addresses two questions: what are the primitives of lexical semantic interpretation, and how they are expressed in the grammatical and morphological representation of a lexical item. The answer involves a characterization of roots as theoretical objects, followed by an argument to the effect that it is not roots, but larger structures of variable size which relate to lexical concepts. An in-depth discussion of nouns leads to the claim that the conceptual content of a lexical item does not reflect its grammatical structure, because a concept is not the meaning of a linguistically defined unit, but a language-external cognitive content, globally associated with the lexical word as a whole.
Beaucoup de noms pluriels sont syntaxiquement caracterises comme massifs et ne referent pas a des... more Beaucoup de noms pluriels sont syntaxiquement caracterises comme massifs et ne referent pas a des ensembles d'elements bien definis: par exemple, dans l'une de ses lectures, angl. resources refere generiquement a tout element ayant une fonction de ressource, et non a un ensemble d'elements dont chacun est une ressource. Dans ce nom la pluralite a cependant un role semantique, puisque resources et resource n'ont pas le meme sens ; mais son interpretation n'est pas compositionnelle. Apres avoir montre que de telles donnees ne peuvent pas etre ecartees sous pretexte d'exception, l'article propose que le pluriel represente ici une epellation flexionnelle qui encode le fait que le lexeme denote une realite consistant en parties distinctes: angl. books signifie [PL (BOOK)], mais le sens effectif de resources est (RESOURCE & PL].
Title On the exponence of gender in the Irish DP Authors(s) Acquaviva, Paolo Publication date 201... more Title On the exponence of gender in the Irish DP Authors(s) Acquaviva, Paolo Publication date 2018-03 Publication information Merchant J., Mikkelsen L., Rudin D., Sasaki K. (eds.). A reasonable way to proceed: Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey Publisher Linguistics Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz Link to online version https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z29n70x Item record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10320
A morphological analysis shows that the inflection of Irish prepositions involves more than the a... more A morphological analysis shows that the inflection of Irish prepositions involves more than the attachment of pronominal endings to a stem. Some paradigmatic regularities suggest that inflecting prepositions have an abstract morphological agreement marker, absent in the syntax; pronominal endings are just one way of realizing it. Apart form the immediate empirical results, a morphological approach to prepositional conjugation can provide new insights into the syntactic questions posed by Irish inflection. Introduction In all dialects of Irish, and indeed of Goidelic and Celtic, prepositions have both a base form and a set of inflected forms. The paradigms in (2) and (3), respectively from the Connacht and Munster areas (from De Bhaldraithe 1997:141, 143 and Ó Sé 2000:198, 204), illustrate two realizations of the orthographic standard set in (1): (1) le "with" ag "at" 1sg liom agam 2sg leat agat 3sg masc. leis aige 3sg fem. léi aici 1pl linn againn 2pl libh agaibh...
This chapter examines the relation between the structure of words as linguistic objects and their... more This chapter examines the relation between the structure of words as linguistic objects and their conceptual content. It addresses two questions: what are the primitives of lexical semantic interpretation, and how they are expressed in the grammatical and morphological representation of a lexical item. The answer involves a characterization of roots as theoretical objects, followed by an argument to the effect that it is not roots, but larger structures of variable size which relate to lexical concepts. An in-depth discussion of nouns leads to the claim that the conceptual content of a lexical item does not reflect its grammatical structure, because a concept is not the meaning of a linguistically defined unit, but a language-external cognitive content, globally associated with the lexical word as a whole.
Beaucoup de noms pluriels sont syntaxiquement caracterises comme massifs et ne referent pas a des... more Beaucoup de noms pluriels sont syntaxiquement caracterises comme massifs et ne referent pas a des ensembles d'elements bien definis: par exemple, dans l'une de ses lectures, angl. resources refere generiquement a tout element ayant une fonction de ressource, et non a un ensemble d'elements dont chacun est une ressource. Dans ce nom la pluralite a cependant un role semantique, puisque resources et resource n'ont pas le meme sens ; mais son interpretation n'est pas compositionnelle. Apres avoir montre que de telles donnees ne peuvent pas etre ecartees sous pretexte d'exception, l'article propose que le pluriel represente ici une epellation flexionnelle qui encode le fait que le lexeme denote une realite consistant en parties distinctes: angl. books signifie [PL (BOOK)], mais le sens effectif de resources est (RESOURCE & PL].
Title On the exponence of gender in the Irish DP Authors(s) Acquaviva, Paolo Publication date 201... more Title On the exponence of gender in the Irish DP Authors(s) Acquaviva, Paolo Publication date 2018-03 Publication information Merchant J., Mikkelsen L., Rudin D., Sasaki K. (eds.). A reasonable way to proceed: Essays in honor of Jim McCloskey Publisher Linguistics Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz Link to online version https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z29n70x Item record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10320
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