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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A cross-linguistic analysis of finite rasing constructions.

Ademola-Adeoye, Feyisayo Fehintola. January 2011 (has links)
This thesis provides and discusses a comprehensive collection of empirical data that show that many languages of the world manifest long A-movement of the subjects of embedded finite clauses to the subject position (Hyperraising) or object position (Hyper-ECM) of the main clause. The main theoretical claim of the thesis is that all these instances of long A-movement leave behind resumptive pronouns and should therefore be analysed on a par with related Copy Raising and Copy ECM constructions. My thesis therefore demonstrates that resumption is not restricted to Abar movement contexts, but is also attested in A-movement constructions. Instead of the various language-particular analyses previously proposed in the literature, the thesis focuses on those aspects of long A-movement that all respective constructions in the different languages have in common and therefore provides a unified crosslinguisic analysis of long A-movement constructions. An important empirical generalisation, first noted by Ura (1994), which is empirically supported by the data discussed in this thesis, is that if a language has Hyperraising or Hyper-ECM, it is also a pro-drop language. On the basis of this generalisation, it is argued that Hyperraising and Hyper-ECM constructions involve the use of resumptive pro in the embedded subject position, while languages with Copy Raising and Copy ECM use overt pronouns. Apart from this difference, it is argued that these Amovement constructions are identical in all crucial respects. Furthermore, it is claimed that agreement inside the embedded finite clauses from which long A-movement takes place is indicative of the ability of embedded T to license nominative case on the embedded subject. Hence, no deviation from standard Minimalist assumptions is required. It is suggested that the role of the resumptive subject pronoun is to receive the case assigned by the probing T-head inside the embedded clause. It is also argued that it is the existence of a resumptive pronoun which causes the coreferential subject DP to be without case, which in turn creates a context in which long A-movement of this DP becomes both necessary and possible. This analysis is based on the idea that at first merge, the raised subject is merged with the null/overt resumptive pronoun in the embedded subject position to form one vii complex constituent (which is known in the literature as a „big? DP). While the pronoun remains in the embedded subject position to absorb the case in the embedded finite clause, the raised subject is attracted into the matrix subject position to absorb the case in the matrix clause. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011
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Sintaxe da posição do verbo e mudança gramatical na história do português Europeu / The syntax of verb position and grammatical change in the history of European portuguese

Antonelli, André Luís, 1980- 19 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T17:26:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonelli_AndreLuis_D.pdf: 3077754 bytes, checksum: d5362560f57c46e1ecd295daf743aeae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é investigar a relação entre a sintaxe da posição do verbo e as propriedades de fronteamento de sintagmas na história do Português Europeu, olhando especificamente para o período de tempo que se estende do século 16 ao 19. Para a realização dessa pesquisa, o quadro teórico adotado será a versão minimalista da Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros (cf. Chomsky 1995 e trabalhos subsequentes), usando como base para as idéias de estrutura oracional as propostas do projeto cartográfico, especificamente as que se referem à periferia à esquerda da sentença (cf., em particular, Rizzi 1997). Como também se trata de um estudo diacrônico que discutirá questões de mudança linguística, utilizaremos como arcabouço teórico para esse fim os trabalhos de Kroch (1989, 1994, 2000) e Lightfoot (1991, 1999, 2006). Apresentaremos evidências de que, até o fim do século 17, o Português manifestava um comportamento semelhante ao de línguas V2 no que diz respeito à propriedade de movimento do verbo, porémbastante diferenciado com relação às possibilidades de fronteamento de XP's. Argumentaremos que a natureza V2 bastante particular desse período é resultante do modo como a sintaxe da posição do verbo se relaciona com requerimentos da periferia da sentença, em particular no que diz respeito à maneira como o EPP associado aos traços phi do núcleo Fin são checados. Para os séculos 18 e 19, mostraremos que o Português já instancia a sintaxe da língua moderna, sem apresentar as propriedades de uma língua V2. Esse resultado vai ao encontro de diversos trabalhos, os quais, investigando outros aspectos sintáticos da diacronia do Português Europeu, mostram que a passagem do século 17 para o 18 marca o início do sistema gramatical contemporâneo / Abstract: The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the relation between the syntax of verb position and the properties of XP fronting in the history of European Portuguese, looking specifically at the period of time which goes from the 16th up to the 19th century. The framework adopted is the minimalist version of the Principles and Parameters Theory (see Chomsky 1995 and subsequent works), using the ideas of the cartographic project as a basis for the proposals of clause structure, in special those concerning to the left periphery of the sentence (see, in particular, Rizzi 1997). Since this dissertation also deals with aspects of linguistic change, we will follow theoretical assumptions presented in Kroch (1989, 1994, 2000) and Lightfoot (1991, 1999, 2006). We will present evidences that, until the end of the 17th century, Portuguese manifested a behavior similar to that of Verb Second (V2) languages concerning the property of verb movement, but with striking differences in relation to the possibilities of XP fronting. In our analysis, this derives from the way the syntax of verb position relates to the requirements of the periphery of the sentence, in particular those concerning the checking of the EPP associated to the phi features of the Fin head. As for the 18th and the 19th centuries, we will show that Portuguese already instantiated the syntax of the modern language, without presenting the properties of a V2 language. This result is in line with different works, which, investigating other syntactic aspects of the diachrony of European Portuguese, show that, from the 18th on, there is the beginning of the contemporary grammatical system / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística
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Learnability and the lexicon in second language acquisition : Chinese learners' acquisition of English argument structure

Juffs, Alan January 1993 (has links)
No description available.
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Learnability and the lexicon in second language acquisition : Chinese learners' acquisition of English argument structure

Juffs, Alan January 1993 (has links)
This thesis investigates the knowledge of semantics-syntax correspondences in second language acquisition (SLA) within the Principles and Parameters framework. A parameter of semantic structure is proposed to account for crosslinguistic syntactic differences between two previously unrelated, and superficially distinct, verb classes: change of state locatives and 'psychological' verbs. Chinese and English contrast in terms of the parameter setting. Experimental evidence indicates that adult Chinese learners of English L2 initially transfer parameter settings, but are able to reset the proposed parameter. However, they only acquire L2 lexical properties and concomitant syntactic privileges with ease when L2 input adds a representation to their grammar. When positive L2 input should pre-empt overgeneralizations based on representation transferred from the L1, it is shown that L1 influence may persist until quite advanced stages of acquisition. The implications of the results are discussed for the parameter setting model of SLA.
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O parametro de composição e aquisição/aprendizagem de L2 / The compounding parameter and L2 aquisition/learning

Marcelino, Marcello 26 February 2007 (has links)
Orientadores: Mary Aizawa Kato, Ruth Lopes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T09:24:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelino_Marcello_D.pdf: 794651 bytes, checksum: 13f0b04e19ffc8fe1aeff46021733ca4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta tese investiga o Parâmetro de Composição (PC) conforme formulado por Snyder (1995) e seu papel na aquisição/aprendizagem de inglês por aprendizes brasileiros. A definição positiva do PC [+] permite a uma língua marcar livremente qualquer item lexical da classe aberta como [+Afixal] e conseqüentemente, detonar toda uma série de propriedades relacionadas (cluster), a saber, composição nominal (N+N), estruturas resultativas (ER), construções V+partícula (V+PRT), construções com objeto duplo (DOC) e isolamento de preposição (PrepStr), entre outras. Diante da aparente existência, em PB, de algumas estruturas semelhantes às do inglês, proponho-me a investigar as seguintes questões: (i) através de comparação entre o PB e o inglês, é possível trazer evidências de que todas as propriedades resultantes da definição positiva do PC, ou pelo menos parte delas estão ligadas ao mesmo parâmetro? (ii) se houver tal parâmetro, a aquisição do inglês como L2 apresenta semelhanças com a aquisição de L1 em relação ao comportamento relativo ao mesmo parâmetro? Após comparação e análise das cinco estruturas propostas, descobri que nenhuma delas, nem mesmo as com correlato estrutural superficial, resulta, no PB, da definição positiva do PC. N+N em PB exemplifica um tipo de composição nominal não recursivo com rigidez de significado; as ERs encontradas em PB são do tipo semântico e não correspondem às versões sintáticas licenciadas pelo PC [+]; estruturas V+PRT e COD são inexistentes; por fim, PB apresenta estruturas com ausência de preposição, que resultam de um diferente arranjo de itens especificados na numeração, diferentemente de estruturas com isolamento de preposição, que são exemplos de predicados complexos decorrentes de Reanálise. Em relação à aquisição das cinco propriedades do PC, sugiro, após análise dos dados de um experimento, que a aquisição das propriedades do (PC) em L2 não é semelhante à sua aquisição em L1. Em L2, as propriedades nucleares (resultativas, V+Partícula,) parecem ter sido adquiridas pelos falantes avançados, possivelmente via imersão. As estruturas não nucleares (COD e PrepStr) juntamente com a estrutura nuclear N+N foram aprendidas via instrução formal. Essas últimas parecem permanecer disponíveis na forma de conhecimento lingüístico consciente / Abstract: This dissertation investigates the Compounding Parameter (CP) as formulated by Snyder (1995) and its role in the acquisition/learning of English by Brazilian learners. The positive setting of the CP [+] allows a given language to freely mark any open-class lexical item as [+Affixal] and consequently trigger a cluster of related properties, namely N+N compounding (N+N), resultative structures (RS), V+Particle (V+PRT) constructions, double object constructions (DOC) and preposition stranding (PrepStr), among others. Upon the apparent existence of structures in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) that resemble some of those in English, namely RS and PrepStr, I set out to explore the following questions: (i) does the comparison between Brazilian Portuguese and English offer evidence that all the properties attributed to the positive setting of the CP, or part of them, follow from the same parameter? (ii) assuming the existence of this parameter, are there any similarities between L1 and L2 acquisition as far as the CP is concerned? After the comparison and analysis of the five related properties, I found out that none of the structures, even the superficially identical looking ones, resulted from the positive setting of the CP. N+N in BP is a result of non recursive N+N compounding with lexically rigid meaning; the RSs found in BP are semantic resultatives that do not correspond to the syntactic versions of the CP-positively valued ones; the V+Particle and DOC constructions are nonexistent; finally, BP offers prepositionless structures that result from a different array of items specified in the numeration, differently from the Reanalysis of V+Preposition, which allows the preposition to be stranded in English. As for the acquisition of the five CP properties, I suggest, after analyzing the data of an experimental study, that the L2 acquisition processes differ from those of the L1 in that the non-nuclear properties (DOC and PrepStr) along with the nuclear property N+N seem to have been learned via formal instruction (ordered input, explicit positive and negative evidence) and remain available as conscious linguistic knowledge. The nuclear properties (RS and V+PRT), on the other hand, seem to have been acquired by the highly proficient L2 English speakers, probably via immersion / Doutorado / Doutor em Linguística
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Portugues brasileiro como segunda lingua : um estudo sobre o sujeito nulo / Brazilian portuguese as a second language : a null subject study

Xavier, Gildete Rocha 31 August 2006 (has links)
Orientadores: Mary Aizawa Kato, Maria Cecilia Perroni / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T21:34:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Xavier_GildeteRocha_D.pdf: 1279433 bytes, checksum: 16b8a9f21d756dac70208dc8ab02e2b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este estudo objetiva investigar como se dá a aquisição do sujeito nulo do português brasileiro (PB) como segunda língua (L2) por adultos estrangeiros, falantes nativos de Inglês e Italiano em situação de imersão total. A pesquisa desenvolve-se no âmbito da gramática gerativa, dentro do quadro da Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros (Chomsky 1981,1986) e do Programa Minimalista (Chomsky, 1993, 1995, 2000). As questões da pesquisa estão relacionadas à questão do acesso à Gramática Universal (GU), por aprendizes de L2. Mais especificamente, procurou-se investigar se os sujeitos aqui analisados têm acesso à GU e, em caso afirmativo, qual seria a forma desse acesso. Os resultados da análise dos dados confirmaram a) a hipótese de acesso direto à GU, através do uso do valor default do parâmetro pro-drop = sujeitos nulos ou preenchidos + a forma verbal unipessoal, nas produções dos falantes de inglês e italiano em fase inicial de aquisição e, b) a hipótese do acesso indireto à GU, via LI, nas produções dos sujeitos falantes de inglês e italiano em fase não inicial de aquisição. Além disso, considerando que as línguas pro-drop não constituem um único tipo, levantou-se a hipótese de que, com base nos dados do input, os aprendizes vão apresentar o pro-drop do PB, a partir da aquisição da concordância dessa língua, o que se confirmou. A tese confirma a hipótese do "bilingüismo universal" de Roeper (1999), não apenas para o estágio inicial, mas para os estágios intermediário e final / Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the acquisition of the null subject in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as a second language (L2) by native adult speakers of English and Italian in a situation of total immersion. The research was developed within the framework of the Principles and Parameters Theory (Chomsky 1981, 1986) and the Minimalist Program, Chomsky, 1993, 1995,2000). The research attempted to investigate whether the L2 leaders have access to Universal Grammar (UG) and what the form of that access would be. The results of the analysis confirmed a) the hypothesis of direct access to UG, through the use of the prcxlrop parameter's default value = null or overt subjects + the one-person agreement verbal form, in the production of English and Italian speakers in the initial phase of acquisition and, b) the hypothesis of indirect access to UG through LI, in the production of the English and Italian speakers in the non-initial phase of acquisition. Considering that prodrop languages do not constitute a single type, it was hypothesized that, based upon data from the input, the leamers would present the prcxlrop of BP, starting by the acquisition of the agreement in that language, which was confirmed. The analysis confirms the "universal bilingualism" hypothesis (Roeper, 1999), not only for the initial stage of acquisition, but also for the intermediate and final stages / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística

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