Alexandra Simonenko
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View article: The evolution of possessive phrases and the rise of DP in French, Spanish, and Portuguese
The evolution of possessive phrases and the rise of DP in French, Spanish, and Portuguese Open
This paper deals with the evolution of nominal expressions with prenominal possessives in Romance languages. Until now, the prevalent view has been that their historical development follows one of the two diachronic paths: either they stop…
View article: Between demonstrative and definite: A grammar competition model of the evolution of French l-determiners
Between demonstrative and definite: A grammar competition model of the evolution of French l-determiners Open
This article investigates the spread of the le / la / les -forms in the diachrony of French on the basis of large-scale corpora. It focuses on the issue of their “mixed” distribution viz. the observation that during a long period of time t…
View article: Givenness marking in a mixed system: Constituent order vs. determiners
Givenness marking in a mixed system: Constituent order vs. determiners Open
This paper investigates the interaction between constituent order and the use of determiners as means of marking givenness, understood here as a non-presuppositional existential inference that arises as a result of interpreting a predicate…
View article: Quantification and scales in change
Quantification and scales in change Open
This volume contains thematic papers on semantic change which emerged from the second edition of Formal Diachronic Semantics held at Saarland University. Its authorship ranges from established scholars in the field of language change to ad…
View article: Factive islands from necessary blocking
Factive islands from necessary blocking Open
Oshima (2007) and Schwarz & Simonenko (2018a) credit the unacceptabilityof so-called factive islands to necessary infelicity – the violation of someor other felicity condition on (wh-)questions in all accessible contexts. We applythis anal…
View article: Decomposing universal projection in questions
Decomposing universal projection in questions Open
Revising a proposal by Guerzoni (2003), we propose to derive universal projection of presuppositions in wh-questions, where attested, from a family of three felicity conditions on question use. Assuming that these felicity conditions can b…
View article: On the logical makeup of how- and why-questions
On the logical makeup of how- and why-questions Open
We employ wh else-phrases as a novel tool for investigating the logicalmakeup of wh-questions. Applying the wh else-diagnostic to how- and why-questions,we show that they comprise two different logical types, which differ interms of whethe…
View article: Decomposing universal projection in questions
Decomposing universal projection in questions Open
Revising a proposal by Guerzoni (2003), we propose to derive universal projectionof presuppositions in wh-questions, where attested, from a family of three felicity conditions onquestion use. Assuming that these felicity conditions can be …
View article: Taraldsen’s generalization in diachrony : evidence from a diachronic corpus
Taraldsen’s generalization in diachrony : evidence from a diachronic corpus Open
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View article: Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners
Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners Open
This paper investigates properties of a class of determiners which can be loosely la- belled specific in that their distribution falls in between maximally-quantifying definite determiners and indefinites which only contribute existential …