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The Case of Grammatical Relations

Identification

  • Project identification: The Case of Grammatical Relations [ IF/00846/2013 ]
  • Group: LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics
  • Principal Investigator: Ludovico Franco
  • Duration: Jan. 2014 – 2018
  • Funding entity: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology  (FCT)
  • Website: https://sites.google.com/site/casegrammaticalrelations/

Description

“The project is an investigation into the grammatical category of case in a (broad) comparative perspective. The lack of a full understanding of such a crucial grammatical category in formal terms calls into question the interpretation of a number of linguistic structures, and ultimately of the overall architecture of language.

The project will delve into specific phenomena such as the following:
a) alignment patterns such as (person/tense/aspect) split ergativity, double oblique and tripartite systems, with a special focus on Indo-Iranian languages;
b) case-marking in ditransitive structures and Differential Object Marking (DOM);
c) case-stacking/case-compounding – layers of case and/or adpositions;
d) quirky case(s) in a cross-linguistic perspective;
e) case-marking on complement and adverbial clauses and on complementizers/subordinators;
f) the nature of linkers in the nominal domain;
g) the representation and processing of nominal class (gender), compared to other classifier language system(s) and case devices.

The project has recently been awarded an FCT ‘Investigação Exploratória’ grant which will give us the opportunity to participate in the design of online experiments with the aim of shedding light on the relation between case and agreement as assumed in current Minimalist research. Collaborators in this area include Paolo Lorusso and Mirko Grimaldi at CRIL, University of Lecce, and Sandra Villata at the University of Geneva.”

(Retrieved from the project website.)

Team

Researchers:
Ludovico Franco (principal investigator)
Mihaela Marchis Moreno (grant holder)
Matthew Reeve (grant holder)

Collaborators:
Rita Manzini (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Leonardo Savoia (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Paolo Lorusso (Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio – CRIL)
Mirko Grimaldi (CRIL)
Lena dal Pozzo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio)
Cilene Rodrigues (PUC-Rio)
Sandra Villata (Université de Genève)

Publications

Articles

Franco, Ludovico (2017). L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complex predicates. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 62, pp.243-279. ISSN 0008–4131.
DOI 10.1017/cnj.2017.7

Franco, Ludovico (2016). Adversative “corrective” coordination: further evidence for combining sub-clausal constituents. Revue Roumaine De Linguistique / Romanian Review Of Linguistics, [online] 51(2), pp.125-142. Available at: http://www.lingv.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174%3Arrlarhiva2016&catid=36%3Areviste-ilb&Itemid=95 [Accessed 26 Oct. 2017]. ISSN 0035-3957.

Franco, Ludovico (2015). Axial parts, Phi-features and degrammaticalization: the case of Italian presso/pressi in diachrony. Transactions of the Philological Society, 114(2), pp.149-170. ISSN 1467-968X.

Franco, Ludovico (2015). The morphosyntax of adverbs of the carpone/i type in (Old and Modern) Italian. Probus, 27(2), pp.271-306. e-ISSN 1613-4079; ISSN 0921-4771.
DOI 10.1515/probus-2014-0005

Franco, Ludovico (2015). VN compounds in Italian and some other Romance languages, Phrasal Spell-out and rebooting. Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, [online] 37(1), pp.81-98. Available at: http://lear.unive.it/jspui/bitstream/11707/5568/5/RGG%202015.pdf [Accessed 28 Sep. 2017]. ISSN 2531-5935.

Franco, Ludovico (2015). When before was (apparently) based on back: the case of per addietro in Old Florentine. Onomázein, [online] 31(1), pp.282-301. Available at: http://onomazein.letras.uc.cl/04_NumeroDescarga/n31/PantallaDescarga_31-13.html [Accessed 28 Sep. 2017]. e-ISSN 0718-5758; ISSN 0717-1285.
DOI 10.7764/onomazein.31.13

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2015). Linkers and agreement. The Linguistic Review, 32(2), pp.277-332. e-ISSN 1613-3676; ISSN 0167-6318.
DOI 10.1515/tlr-2014-0024

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2015). N class and its interpretation: the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications. Isogloss, [online] (Special issue: Italo-Romance Morphosyntax), pp.41-67. Available at: http://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v1-2015-si-franco-manzini-savoia [Accessed 28 Sep. 2017]. ISSN 2385-4138.
DOI 10.5565/rev/isogloss.14

Manzini, M. Rita and Franco, Ludovico (2016). Goal and DOM datives. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 34(1), pp.197-240. e-ISSN 1573-0859; ISSN 0167-806X.

Manzini, M. Rita; Savoia, Leonardo and Franco, Ludovico (2015). Ergative case, aspect and person splits: two case studies. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, [online] 62(3), pp.297-351. Available at: http://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/064.2015.62.3.3 [Accessed 28 Sep. 2017]. e-ISSN 1588-2624; ISSN 1216-8076.
DOI 10.1556/064.2015.62.3.3

Moreno, Mihaela (2015). Relational adjectives at interfaces. Studia Linguistica, 69(3), pp.304-332. ISSN 0039-3193.
DOI 10.1111/stul.12038

Moreno, Mihaela and Navarro, Mario (2015). El verbo causativo hacer en el español loísta: nuevas perspectivas para la Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, 13(1), pp.183-197.

Reeve, Matthew and Hicks, Glyn (2017). Adjunct extraposition: base-generation or movement? Syntax, 20(3), pp.215-248. ISSN 1368-0005.
DOI 10.1111/synt.12136

Chapters in books/proceedings

Manzini, M. Rita; Franco, Ludovico and Savoia, Leonardo (2014). Linkers are not “possession markers” (but “agreements”). In: L. Veselovská and M. Janebová, eds., Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: language use and linguistic structure. [PDF] Olomouc: Palacky´ University Press, pp.233-252. Available at: http://olinco.upol.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/olinco-2014-proceedings.pdf [Accessed 1 Nov. 2017]. ISBN 978-80-244-4384-3.

Moreno, Mihaela and Petersen, Carolina (2016). In defense of defective intervention: locality effects in Romance. In: E. Carrilho, A. Fiéis, M. Lobo and S. Pereira, eds., Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10. Selected papers from “Going Romance” 28 Lisbon. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.171-190. ISBN 9789027203908.

Book edition

Franco, Ludovico (2014). The lexical/functional divide in aphasic production: five Italian case studies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-5816-8.

Working papers

Franco, Ludovico. On the syntax of Pantiscu subject clitics.

Franco, Ludovico and Manzini, M. Rita. The instrumental: the dative and its double.

Manzini, M. Rita; Savoia, Leonardo and Franco, Ludovico. Suffixaufnahme, oblique case and Agree.

Moreno, Mihaela and Franco, Ludovico. Intervention in agreement and case assignment: the role of doubling.

Reeve, Matthew. On agreement and “extraction” from nominals.

Conference presentations

Bellucci, Giulia; Dal Pozzo, Lena; Franco, Ludovico and Manzini, M. Rita (2016). Locatives, part and whole in Uralic. 26th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 26), 13-15 Apr., University of Extremadura, Spain.

Bellucci, Giulia; Dal Pozzo, Lena; Franco, Ludovico and Manzini, M. Rita (2016). Locatives, part and whole in Uralic. The Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco 2016), 8-10 June, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Franco, Ludovico and Lorusso, Paolo (2015). Parameters of agreement with embedded Nps. [Poster] Italian Dialect Meeting 2015 and Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Morphology Meeting X, 22-24 June, Leiden, Netherlands.

Franco, Ludovico and Lorusso, Paolo (2015). Patterns of agreement with embedded Nps. [Poster] Formal Approaches to Morphosyntactic Variation (FAMSV2015), 24-25 June, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country.

Franco, Ludovico and Lorusso, Paolo (2016). A double pattern of agreement with embedded Nps. 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46), 3-4 Mar., Stony Brook University, New York, USA.

Franco, Ludovico and Lorusso, Paolo (2016). Patterns of agreement with embedded Nps. 26th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 26), 13-15 Apr., University of Extremadura, Spain.

Franco, Ludovico; Lorusso, Paolo; Dora Manca, Anna and Grimaldi, Mirko (2016). An ERP preliminary analysis of the Person Split in Italian. [Poster] CUNY 2016. The 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 3-5 Mar., Florida, USA.

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2014). Nominal class and its interpretation in Romance. 8th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Morphology Meeting (CDSM 8), 20-22 June, University of Padua, Italy.

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2014). N(ominal) class and its interpretation. 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 44), 2-4 May, Western Ontario University, Canada.

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2014). Linkers are not possession markers. The Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco 2014), 5-7 June, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2015). Linkers in Aromanian. 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), 6-9 May, University of  Campinas, Brazil.

Franco, Ludovico; Manzini, M. Rita and Savoia, Leonardo (2015). Ergativity splits: perfects lack Asp, ergative is a “possessor”. 25th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG 25), 21-23 May, IKER/CNRS, Bayonne, France.

Franco, Ludovico and Moreno, Mihaela (2015). Intervention in agreement and case assignment and the role of cliticization. Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC), 18-20 June, Budapest, Hungary.

Moreno, Mihaela and Kireva, Elena (2015). On backward control and cliticisation. Annual Slavic Linguistics Meeting (SLS-10), [n.a.], Heidelberg, Germany.

Moreno, Mihaela and Petersen, Carolina (2016). In defense of defective intervention: adverbs and experiencers in Romance. 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 34), [n.a.], Utah, USA.

Reeve, Matthew (2016). Fragments, truncated clefts and island-sensitivity. [Poster] Ellipsis Across Borders Conference 2016, 20-21 June, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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