Sep 2026· Sign Language & Linguistics· 0 citations· 23 references
Abstract
Despite extensive research on the topic, the divide between what is gestural and what is properly linguistic in the case
of classifier predicates is still a matter of controversy. In this paper, we adopt the analysis according to which classifier predicates
involve the co-utterance of a fully linguistic unit and of a demonstrative gesture (
Zucchi, Cecchetto
& Geraci 2012
;
Davidson 2015
). In light of this debate, we extensively discuss the
source of argument structure in classifier predicates, more specifically the hypothesis stemming from work by
Benedicto & Brentari (2004)
, according to which different classifier types determine the unergative,
unaccusative, or transitive nature of the classifier. After discussing some new counterexamples to a rigid mapping between classifier types
and argument structure, we propose a pragmatic reinterpretation of this regular, but not exceptionless, mapping.
We analyze the use and distribution of Spanish synthetic and periphrastic future-inflected
wh
-interrogatives in a corpus of informal Spanish conversations, within Linell’s (2009) Dialogical Theory of
Language. Our corpus analysis reveals that future-inflected interrogatives realize three types of discourse func...
Malte Rosemeyer, María Sol Sansiñena· Pragmatics: Quarterly Public...· 0 citations
This article examines the linguistic change undergone by the verb
valer
, which gave rise to the pragmatic marker
vale
(‘ok’). On the one hand, it seeks to identify the context(s) in which the construction was coopted and explore the relational links (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013). On the other, it aims to clarif...
Ana Belén Llopis Cardona· International Review of Prag...· 0 citations
Abstract In this paper, I analyze the crosslinguistic variation in visual perception events in terms of event construals and their usage in discourse. Through an innovative computational analysis of a comparable corpus of 31 typologically diverse languages, I demonstrate that the crosslinguistic variation is governed b...
This paper examines a little-known composite second-person plural pronoun that has received no systematic
attention in the historical-linguistic literature to date:
among(st)-you
. Drawing on a broad range of textual
sources, we first map the geographical distribution of this pronoun across the anglophone world...
Bart Jacobs, S. Goyette, Mikael Parkvall· English World-Wide. A Journa...· 0 citations
Recent research in computational linguistics has found that most long-distance linguistic dependencies are tier-based strictly 2-local (TSL-2) over their respective representations, providing a precise characterization of blocking elements in phonology and syntax. A subset of the well-known syntactic island effects hav...
Kenneth Hanson· Languages· 0 citations
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