Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology (Sounds – Meaning – Communication)

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Constraints on Structure and Derivation
in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology
SOUNDS – MEANING – COMMUNICATION
LANDMARKS IN PHONETICS, PHONOLOGY
AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS

Edited by Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Editorial Board:
Eugeniusz Cyran (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Adam Głaz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Haike Jacobs (Radboud University (Nijmegen), The Netherlands)
Henryk Kardela (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Przemysław Łozowski (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
Bert Peeters (Australian National University (Canberra) and Griffith University
(Brisbane), Australia)

VOLUME 4

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and Derivation
in Syntax, Phonology
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Title: Constraints on structure and derivation in syntax, phonology and mor-
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Description: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, [2017] | Series: Sounds -
meaning - communication; Vol. 4
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Subjects: LCSH: Linguistic change–Variation. | Language and languages–
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Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................................................7
Part One: Constraints on structure and derivation in syntax
Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik
Translations or transgressions? Syntactic convergence with the source
in two medieval vernacular Psalters ........................................................................19
Nadežda Christopher
The “bagel problem” in Russian – The Dynamic Syntax approach ......................51
Judit Farkas and Gábor Alberti
The Hungarian hatnék-noun expression: A hybrid construction .....................71
Aleksandra Gogłoza
PCC effects in English, Icelandic and Polish – A unified analysis ....................101
Réka Jurth
On alternating experiencer verbs in Hungarian .................................................131
Katarzyna Mroczyńska
Beyond ergative languages – The antipassive construction in Polish ...............157
Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska
Syntax of load verbs in Old English ......................................................................177
Part Two: Constraints on structure and derivation in
phonology and morphology
Anna Bloch-Rozmej
Geminates in Polish: Structure and phonological behaviour ............................193
M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia
N morphology and its interpretation: The neuter in Italian
and Albanian varieties ............................................................................................213
6 Contents
Leonardo M. Savoia and Benedetta Baldi
Enhancing stressed /a/ low frequency components in the context
of sonorants. Some proposals on phonological representations .......................237
Steven Schaefer
A Fresh look at English “combining forms”: Structure, identification
and pronunciation ...................................................................................................263
Sławomir Zdziebko
Opacity across interfaces: The story of Polish resultative adjectives ................283
Foreword
The present volume is a collection of twelve papers centred around the notion of
constraints. The works gathered here address, in particular, the problem of con-
straints imposed on structure and derivation in syntax, phonology and morphology.
Constraints have played a significant role in syntactic theorising ever since the
seminal work by Ross (1967). Although widely adopted and recognised, constraints
have not been extensively studied in the literature, with a few exceptions, includ-
ing Müller and Sternefeld (2000) and Graf (2013). In the literature two highly
disputed issues regarding constraints concern the relation between constraints and
operations, and the explanatory power of constraints. Recently in the Minimalist
Program the question whether constraints are superior to operations or the other
way round has been addressed by two rival camps – derivationalists (Epstein et al.
1998; Epstein and Seely 2002; 2006) and representationalists (Brody 1995; 2000;
2002). The former argue for the supremacy of operations over constraints, whereas
the latter make representations the focal point of the theory and impose constraints
on their shapes. Besides the Minimalist Program, constraints have figured promi-
nently in Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar
and the Optimality Theory (Graf 2013).
The typology of constraints proposed by Müller and Sternefeld (2000) is based
on five types of constraints, namely: representational, derivational, global, trans-
local, and transderivational. Representational constraints apply to single phrase
structures, locally bounded or unbounded, whereas derivational constraints affect
locally bounded derivations. Global constraints operate in unbounded syntactic
derivations. Translocal constraints hold of collections of trees, while transderiva-
tional constraints are applicable to collections of derivations. Although the distinc-
tions between constraints that Müller and Sternefeld (2000) put forward are clear
cut, it is not an easy task to determine which class a specific constraint belongs to.
Locality constraints, including islands, for example, are regarded by Müller and
Sternefeld (2000) as derivational, whereas the Empty Category Principle is viewed
as an instance of a representational constraint. In turn, the Projection Principle is
classed by Müller and Sternefeld (2000) as a global constraint, whereas the Avoid
Pronoun Principle is treated as a translocal constraint. Finally, the Shortest Move-
ment Principle of Chomsky (1995) is taken to belong to transderivational con-
straints. Graf (2013) observes that the borderlines between the particular constraint
types are blurry. It is often the case that one type of constraint can be subsumed
under another. This happens, for instance, in the case of the Merge-over-Move
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preference of Chomsky (1995; 2000), which may be understood as either global or
transderivational.
Part I of the book, called “Constraints on structure and derivation in syntax”
comprises seven chapters, each of which focuses on some constraint-related
theoretical problem. The constraint explicitly analysed in chapter 4 by Aleksan-
dra Gogłoza is the Person Case Constraint, which seems to be a representational
constraint. Other papers make less explicit references to constraints. In chapter 1
the constraints imposed by the translator’s native grammar and the function of
the text are taken into account in analysing the syntax of two translations of the
Psalter. In chapter 2 the focus is laid on the constraints on parsing two negative
polarity items within the confines of Dynamic Syntax. Chapter 3 scrutinises the
constraints applicable to one type of deverbal nominalisation. Chapter 5 examines
the constraints on the event and argument structure of psychological verbs. Finally,
chapter 6 investigates the constraints underlying structural alternations available
for the load class verbs.
In chapter 1, Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik analyses the treatment of syntactic
patterns in two medieval renditions of the Psalter in order to determine to what
extent the translations have replicated the syntax of the Latin original. A special
focus is laid on the similarities and the differences between the two translations
of the Psalter – the English one by Richard Rolle and the Polish one by Walanty
Wróbel – and the original as regards pronominal subject omission in finite clauses
and the treatment of the copula. On the basis of a careful data analysis, the author
convincingly argues that syntactic convergence did not serve as a highly rated prin-
ciple in either text. It is emphasised that neither author rendered the two syntactic
phenomena scrutinised in the chapter in a systematic way. Whereas Rolle retained
the covert copulas of the Latin text, he used overt pronominal subjects, instead of the
covert ones, present in the original. Moreover, Wróbel, who was free to replicate the
syntax of the original verbatim on account of the syntactic similarities between Pol-
ish and Latin, did not stick to the syntax of the original, but remodelled the (c)overt
contexts in either direction. The overall conclusion is that the syntactic patterns
of the original are treated in the two translations in an equally unsystematic way.
In chapter 2, Nadežda Christopher examines the complementary distribution
between two types of Russian negative polarity items introduced by means of ni-
and by means of libo-. Ni-words occur wherever predicate negation is involved,
while libo-items appear in all non-veridical contexts, with the exception of predi-
cate negation. Following Pereltsvaig (2006), Christopher calls this distribution pat-
tern the “bagel problem.” The author shows that although the analysis proposed by
Pereltsvaig (2006) within the framework of Distributed Morphology accounts for