Iberia: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics - 2014 - Vol. 6
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Artículo Language, chaos and entropy: A physical take on biolinguistics(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Krivochen, Diego GabrielIn this paper we will try to provide arguments for the thesis that language is a physical system aiming at justicative adequacy: what architectural properties license the occurrence of certain emergent phenomena. We will claim that the derivational dynamics that can be found in language (and other systems of the mind) should be analyzed from the perspective of complex non-linear systems, as an open dynamic system. We will propose an oscillatory engine for linguistic computations, which yields cycles as a natural emergent property given mutually incompatible tendencies between output conditions: global semantic eects and local linearization requirements. This architecture, in which structure building is conditioned by irreconciliable conditions, congures a kind of dynamical system well known in physics: a dynamical frustration. We will attempt to show that interesting eects arise when we consider that there is a dynamical frustration at the core of cognitive dynamicsArtículo Different types of nouns, different types of projections(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Gondra, AgerThis paper proposes (1) for Basque nominal domain. Expanding on the ideas of Distributed Morphology, all nouns are syntactically derived from a categorically unspecied root, which is nominalized by an n-head. With deverbal nouns, this unspecied root is rst dominated by a series of structure-creating nodes (V-v). Event nouns take an external and an internal argument due to their argument structure, and have an event reading, while result nouns have the option to take an adjunctexternal argument and an internal argument, and have a referential reading. Thus, event nouns project the v that introduces the event reading and the external argument, while result nouns project a defective v* that has a non-active reading and does not introduce an external argument (Kratzer 1996). With common nouns, however, the »RP merges directly with the little n, making impossible for them to take arguments. Finally, with result nouns and common nouns, a possessor1 is possible. Hence, two types of n are proposed: n* introduces the possessor, while n does not. The possessor raises to the pec-FP position along with the external and the internal argument.Artículo A minimal cartography of Dierential Object Marking in Spanish(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Bassa Vanrell, María del Mar; Romeu, JuanIn this paper we use a minimal cartography to show that DOM constructions in Spanish have special properties that make them syntactically and semantically diferent from non-DOM constructions. First, a -marked DOs have a diferent un- derlying structure. In their structure there is a relational projection (RelP) which is modifed by Disjoint, giving the interpretation that the DP complement is a recipient of the action of the verb. Second, a -marked objects occupy a diferent position in the structure from non a -marked objects: while the former occupy the complement of proc(ess), the latter occupy a modifer position. By establishing these two diferences, we provide a unifed explanation for the special properties of DOM