Browsing Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) by Author "Putnam, Michael T."

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    • The emergence of middle voice readings with and without agents 

      Fabregas, Antonio; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-30)
      This article presents evidence that, cross-linguistically or within the same language (family), there appears to be no morphosyntactic properties and/ or structures specifically designated for the formation of middle voice constructions. What has been labeled a ‘middle voice construction’ is a semantic interpretation that, crucially, is blocked when an event variable is existentially closed by T. ...

    • How Wide the Divide? – Theorizing ‘Constructions’ in Generative and Usage-Based Frameworks 

      Carlson, Matthew T.; Fábregas, Antonio; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-26)
      What is the nature and function of mental representations in cognitive science, and in human language in particular? How do they come into existence and interact, and how is the information attributed to them stored in and retrieved from the human mind? Some theories treat constructions as primitive entities used for structure-building, central in both production and comprehension, while other ...

    • The Tale of Two Lexicons: Decomposing Complexity across a Distributed Lexicon 

      Lohndal, Terje; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)
      The notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at decomposing the notion of complexity into smaller components in a formal grammatical model. In particular, we argue that a distributed model of the lexicon (i.e., one that assumes that principles that generate both words and ...