A Quantifier-Based Approach to NPI-Licensing Typology:
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Vu, Mai Ha
عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر
Empirical and Computational Investigations
نام ساير پديدآوران
Bruening, Benjamin T.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Delaware
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2020
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
265
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Delaware
امتياز متن
2020
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This thesis examines the quantifier-based approach to NPI-licensing (as proposed in (Giannakidou, 2000)) from empirical and computational perspectives. This approach argues that all NPIs can be categorized as either existentially or universally quantified items, and that this difference drives cross-linguistically divergent NPI-behaviors. After providing the necessary background and assumptions, in the first half of the thesis I show that English any-NPIs are existentially quantified, whereas Hungarian se-NPIs are universally quantified. I also demonstrate how this approach can help understand the behavior of NPIs in other languages and language families such as Slavic, Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, and Romance languages. In the second half of the thesis, I analyze the quantifier-based NPI-licensing constraints for computational complexity. I find that except for the constraints that rely on derived c-command, all other constraints can be described with Input-local Tier-based Strictly Local (I-TSL) or Multiple Input-local Tier-based Strictly Local (MITSL) restrictions, which means that tree-languages that satisfy NPI-licensing constraints for the most part fit into a fairly restrictive subregular class of tree-languages. Taken together, this thesis argues that a theoretically informed approach to linguistic phenomena can significantly affect results on their computational complexity.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Linguistics
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