Blar i forfatter "Putnam, Michael T."

Viser treff 1-5 av 5

    • 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 importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly 

      Lohndal, Terje; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-01)
      Formal approaches tobi-and multilingual grammars rely on two important claims: (i)the grammatical architecture should be able to deal withmonoandbi-/multilingual data without any specific constraints for the latter, (ii)features play a pivotal role in accounting for patterns across and within grammars. In the present paper, it is argued that an exoskeletal approach to grammar, which clearly distinguishes ...

    • Modeling multilingual grammars: Constraints and predictions 

      Lohndal, Terje; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-01)
      We are grateful for the many thoughtful responses to our epistemological paper, ‘The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly’ (henceforth, L&P). It is impossible to do justice to all of the points that have been raised in this response; rather, we will focus on three main points which hopefully will address the most important comments and concerns that have been raised.

    • 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 ...