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- Källström, Roger, 1946, et al.
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Syntax
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lyngfelt, Benjamin, 1968
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Kontroll i svenskan. Den optimala tolkningen av infinitivers tankesubjekt. : Controll in Swedish. The optimal interpretation of implicit subjects in infinitival clauses.
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis provides an account of control phenomena in Swedish, focusing on the interpretation of PRO in infinitival clauses. The investigation consists of a corpus-based study of approximately 20,000 Swedish infinitives and an Optimality-theoretic analysis of the same data. The corpus study shows that control depends on a combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors. Generally, the interpretation of PRO depends on the syntactic function/position of the infinitive, but the syntactic patterns are overridden if they do not fit with the semantics of the clause. Pragmatic factors are relevant, but crucially so only when syntax and semantics do not suffice to determine the interpretation. In the Optimality-theoretic analysis, the various empirical results are derived through a single system of interacting violable constraints. The model consists of a hierarchy of constraints, where the optimal (i.e. grammatical) interpretation of any given input is the reading that best satisfies the highest ranking constraints. As indicated by the corpus study, (lexical) semantic constraints are higher ranked than the syntactic constraints, which in turn outrank the pragmatics.
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- Lyngfelt, Benjamin, 1968
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OT Semantics and Control
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Ingår i: Rutgers Optimality Archive. ; 411
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Control, the interpretation of the implicit subject of a non-finite clause, seems to depend on interaction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic principles. This suggests that an OT framework, which is based on the idea of constraint interaction, should be particularly suited to handle the problem. The present paper integrates configurational, lexical, and pragmatic factors in an OT analysis of control in Swedish. This approach enables the analysis to cover a broader range of control phenomena than can be accounted for from a more uniformly syntactic or semantic perspective. Since the study of control concerns syntax and semantics both, it may provide interesting insights concerning the relation between the two perspectives. Unlike most contemporary theories of grammar, the OT architecture easily lends itself to treating production and interpretation separately. This makes control, as a matter of interpretation, a separate issue from the distribution of controllable elements. By distinguishing these processes - and thereby their inputs - with respect to control, some interesting consequences for OT syntax and OT semantics in general may be revealed. In this paper, it is shown that a fully inflected input to OT syntax is not very well suited to treat the distribution of non-finite clauses (and, consequently, control phenomena). It is also proposed that syntactic structure should not be regarded as part of the input to OT semantics.
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