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We are roundabout 100 linguists researching in 17 subprojects how we speak differently in different situations. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, https://wisskomm […] [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@sfb1412 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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SFB 1412 Register@sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 9mo ago

New publication in project A04 from SFB 1412 Register is out!: “Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives” (CSSP 2023) by Chenyuan Deng, Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Giuseppe Varaschin 👏 Explore: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15450432 #sfb1412 #Chinese #syntax #linguistics

Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives

We argue that the distributional properties of modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives with respect to nouns in Mandarin Chinese motivate a head-functor approach(Van Eynde 2006), where numeral-classifier-noun sequences are analyzed as leftbranching structures with the noun as the head. This approach explains the distributional similarities between all prenominal categories by unifying their combinatorial properties under a single phrasal schema while also accounting for theirdifferences by means of selectional constraints and a hierarchy of marking values. We also analyze classifiers themselves as special kinds of noun. All in all, ouranalysis entails that nominal complexes in Mandarin Chinese are fundamentallydifferent from those found in languages with dedicated specifiers (e.g. determinersin a language like English), suggesting a two-way typology that is parallel to theNP/DP parameter proposed in the minimalist tradition (Bošković 2007, i.a.).

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SFB 1412 Register@sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

In the CRC-Project A07, there is a new publication on modal concord and its social meanings. The first view of the paper is now openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674325100361 #sfb1412

A register approach to modal (non-)concord in English: an experimental study of linguistic and social meaning | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

A register approach to modal (non-)concord in English: an experimental study of linguistic and social meaning

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SFB 1412 Register@sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

Artemis Alexiadou, Despina Oikonomou and Stephanie Rotter collaborated on experimental work investigating comparatives and register effects across different varieties of English. The paper is now published and openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000546 #sfb1412

Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English

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SFB 1412 Register@sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2y ago

On the first of January this year, the new project B07 "Evidentiality, Modality and Speaker’s Stance as Register Features in Galen’s Medical Discourse“ joined the CRC 1412. Prof. Dr. Theresa Roth's project strengthens Area B and we are happy to welcome them to the CRC!