Abstract Extending previous work on monotonicity in morphology and morphosyntax, I argue that some of the most important constraints in syntax can be analyzed in terms of monotonic functions that map spe cific kinds of syntactic representations to fixed, universal hierarchies. I cover …
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Monotonicity as a High-Level Principle of Grammar
read moreAbstract Monotonicity is a staple of semantics, but has occasionally also made an appearance in other domains (cf. Fox & Pesetsky 2005). In this talk, I argue that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that monotonicity plays a central role in …
Monotonicity as a Third Factor in Syntax and Morphology
read moreAbstract Monotonicity is a staple of semantics, but has occasionally also made an appearance in other domains (cf. Fox & Pesetsky 2005). In this talk, I argue that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that monotonicity plays a central role in …
Formal and Substantive Universals Across Language Modules
read moreAbstract Monotonicity is a staple of semantics, but has occasionally also made an appearance in other domains (cf. Fox & Pesetsky 2005). In this talk, I argue that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that monotonicity plays a central role in …
Monotonicity as an Effective Theory of Morphosyntactic Variation
read moreAbstract One of the major goals of linguistics is to delineate the possible range of variation across languages. Recent work has identified a surprising number of typological gaps in a variety of domains. In morphology, this includes stem suppletion, person pronoun syncretism, case …
Subregular Morpho-Semantics: The Expressive Limits of Monomorphemic Quantifiers
read moreAbstract Even though languages are capable of expressing very complex generalized quantifiers such as all but seven and an even number of, the range of possible meanings for monomorphemic determiners seems to be limited to every, no, some, and numerals. In this talk …