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Paper abstract bibtex 4 downloads Deciding on a topic for my contribution to this festschrift did not come easy. The obvious choice would have been a topic related to sign language structure – and indeed, I reviewed a couple of ideas. However, given that this volume celebrates Kees Hengeveld’s academic achievements – and, on a more personal note, the wonderful and supportive colleague he has been for almost a quarter of a century – I finally decided to contribute a squib on the manipulation of nouns in spontaneous speech errors, as this topic has three straightforward links to studies that Kees has conducted over the years. First, I am focusing on a specific word class (and the nature of word classes more generally), and ever since his PhD thesis, Kees has had a keen interest in parts-of-speech (Hengeveld 1992; also see, e.g., Hengeveld 2013). Second, I discuss production data, and the Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) model is characterized by a rigorous top- down architecture (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2015), which aligns in important ways with that of serial models of language production (e.g., Levelt 1989). Third, on my only foray into the realm of (pre-FDG) Functional Grammar – a joint project with Dik Bakker – we actually addressed gender mismatches in spontaneous speech errors (Bakker & Pfau 2008). In this squib, I will analyze selected German speech errors by applying theoretical assumptions from Distributed Morphology (DM; Halle & Marantz 1993; Siddiqi 2010). In a nutshell, DM assumes that the computational system manipulates nothing but abstract roots and morphosyntactic features, while phonologically specified Vocabulary items (VIs) are inserted into terminal nodes only after syntax (“late insertion”). In Section 2, I will focus on roots and show how DM-mechanisms ensure their correct spell-out in a specific context. In Sections 3 and 4, I then turn to proposals regarding the internal structure of determiner phrases (DPs) and consider in how far the speech error data provide evidence regarding such proposals. I address certain predictions concerning the processing of the number feature (Section 3) and further functional structure that may impact the choice of derivational morphemes (Section 4).
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title = {When shifts root: Some observations regarding nouns and noun phrases in spontaneous speech errors},
author = {Pfau, Roland},
journal = {Linguistics in Amsterdam},
volume = {15},
number = {2},
pages = {135--142},
year = {2024},
url = {https://www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/publications/Pfau_2024_LiA.pdf},
abstract = {Deciding on a topic for my contribution to this festschrift did not come easy. The obvious choice would have been a topic related to sign language structure – and indeed, I reviewed a couple of ideas. However, given that this volume celebrates Kees Hengeveld’s academic achievements – and, on a more personal note, the wonderful and supportive colleague he has been for almost a quarter of a century – I finally decided to contribute a squib on the manipulation of nouns in spontaneous speech errors, as this topic has three straightforward links to studies that Kees has conducted over the years. First, I am focusing on a specific word class (and the nature of word classes more generally), and ever since his PhD thesis, Kees has had a keen interest in parts-of-speech (Hengeveld 1992; also see, e.g., Hengeveld 2013). Second, I discuss production data, and the Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) model is characterized by a rigorous top- down architecture (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2015), which aligns in important ways with that of serial models of language production (e.g., Levelt 1989). Third, on my only foray into the realm of (pre-FDG) Functional Grammar – a joint project with Dik Bakker – we actually addressed gender mismatches in spontaneous speech errors (Bakker & Pfau 2008). In this squib, I will analyze selected German speech errors by applying theoretical assumptions from Distributed Morphology (DM; Halle & Marantz 1993; Siddiqi 2010). In a nutshell, DM assumes that the computational system manipulates nothing but abstract roots and morphosyntactic features, while phonologically specified Vocabulary items (VIs) are inserted into terminal nodes only after syntax (“late insertion”). In Section 2, I will focus on roots and show how DM-mechanisms ensure their correct spell-out in a specific context. In Sections 3 and 4, I then turn to proposals regarding the internal structure of determiner phrases (DPs) and consider in how far the speech error data provide evidence regarding such proposals. I address certain predictions concerning the processing of the number feature (Section 3) and further functional structure that may impact the choice of derivational morphemes (Section 4).}
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