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- Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, 1980, et al.
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Cognitive science, language as a tool for interaction, and a new look at language evolution
- 2017
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In: Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to the Dynamics of Linguistic Interaction workshop, ESSLLI 2017. Toulouse, France, July 17-21, 2017. Edited by Christine Howes, Hannes Rieser. Vol 1863.. - Aachen : M. Jeusfeld c/o Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen. - 1613-0073.
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- Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, 1980, et al.
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Standard Modern and Pontic Greek Person Restrictions: A feature-free Dynamic Account
- 2011
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In: Journal of Greek Linguistics. - 1566-5844.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, using new evidence from Pontic Greek (PG) in addition to Standard Modern Greek, we argue that the Person Case Constraint (PCC), generally presumed to be an irreducible morphosyntactic constraint on clitic pronoun combinations and argued by several to provide evidence of feature-driven syntactic operations, is a direct consequence of processing considerations, these new data being inexplicable under any of the current feature-driven analyses (Anagnostopoulou 2003, 2005; Béjar & Rezac 2003; Bianchi 2006; Adger & Harbour 2007; Nevins 2007; Pescarini 2010 among others). Adopting the Dynamic Syntax (DS) perspective of Cann et al. (2005), in which syntax is defined as the monotonic incremental growth of semantic structure, with structural underspecification and update as the core syntactic notion, we argue that the PCC is wholly due to restrictions on tree-growth imposed by the logic of finite trees: that these should underpin observed gaps in possible clitic combinations is due to clitics being calcified reflexes of previously available tree-growth update-sequences whose variability is the source of word order variation. More specifically, we argue that PCC effects, including the problematic PG data, are the consequence of a tree-logic restriction that only one unfixed node can be present in a tree at any stage in the tree growth process. PG, a dialect in which no 3rd person clitic clusters are allowed, provides strong evidence for such a feature-free account. Contrary to current feature-based analyses, which would preclude such data, the analysis presented here is shown to directly predict the Pontic Greek data, thus pointing towards a feature-free account of the PCC.
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- Gregoromichelaki, Eleni, et al.
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Actionism in syntax and semantics.
- 2020
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In: CLASP Papers in Computational Linguistics: Dialogue and Perception. - Extended papers from DaP2018 / edited by Christine Howes, SimonDobnik and Ellen Breitholtz. - Gothenburg : Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP). - 2002-9764.
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- Gregoromichelaki, Eleni, et al.
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Completability vs (In)completeness
- 2020
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In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0374-0463 .- 1949-0763. ; 52:2, s. 260-284
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © 2020 The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. In everyday conversation, no notion of “complete sentence” is required for syntactic licensing. However, so-called “fragmentary”, “incomplete”, and abandoned utterances are problematic for standard formalisms. When contextualised, such data show that (a) non-sentential utterances are adequate to underpin agent coordination, while (b) all linguistic dependencies can be systematically distributed across participants and turns. Standard models have problems accounting for such data because their notions of ‘constituency’ and ‘syntactic domain’ are independent of performance considerations. Concomitantly, we argue that no notion of “full proposition” or encoded speech act is necessary for successful interaction: strings, contents, and joint actions emerge in conversation without any single participant having envisaged in advance the outcome of their own or their interlocutors’ actions. Nonetheless, morphosyntactic and semantic licensing mechanisms need to apply incrementally and subsententially. We argue that, while a representational level of abstract syntax, divorced from conceptual structure and physical action, impedes natural accounts of subsentential coordination phenomena, a view of grammar as a “skill” employing domain-general mechanisms, rather than fixed form-meaning mappings, is needed instead. We provide a sketch of a predictive and incremental architecture (Dynamic Syntax) within which underspecification and time-relative update of meanings and utterances constitute the sole concept of “syntax”.
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- Kempson, Ruth, et al.
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How Mechanistic Can Accounts Of Interaction Be?
- 2009
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In: Proceedings of the 13th SEMDIAL Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DiaHolmia). - Stockholm, Sweden. - 2308-2275. ; , s. 67-74
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- Kempson, Ruth, et al.
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Language as Mechanisms for Interaction
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In: Theoretical Linguistics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 0301-4428 .- 1613-4060. ; 42:3-4, s. 203-276
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- Language use is full of subsentential shifts of context, a phenomenon dramatically illustrated in conversation where non-sentential utterances displaying seamless shifts between speaker/hearer roles appear regularly. The hurdle this poses for standard assumptions is that every local linguistic dependency can be distributed across speakers, with the content of what they are saying and the significance of each conversational move emerging incrementally. Accordingly, we argue that the modelling of a psychologically-realistic grammar necessitates recasting the notion of natural language in terms of our ability for interaction with others and the environment, abandoning the competence-performance dichotomy as standardly envisaged. We sketch Dynamic Syntax, a model in which underspecification and incremental time-relative update is central, showing how interactive effects of conversation follow directly. Finally, we note the changing cognitive-science horizons to be explored once a language-as-action view is adopted.
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- Kempson, Ruth, et al.
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Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction
- 2015
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In: Language in context: An ecological guide to embodied language. 10-11 January 2015, London, UK.
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