J. M. M. Brown | Andreas Schmidt | Marta Wierzba (Eds.) OF TREES AND BIRDS A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow Universitätsverlag Potsdam OF TREES AND BIRDS J. M. M. Brown | Andreas Schmidt | Marta Wierzba (Eds.) OF TREES AND BIRDS A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow Universitätsverlag Potsdam Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de/ abrufbar. Universitätsverlag Potsdam 2019 http://verlag.ub.uni-potsdam.de/ Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam Tel.: +49 (0)331 977 2533 / Fax: 2292 E-Mail: [email protected] Soweit nicht anders gekennzeichnet ist dieses Werk unter einem Creative Commons Lizenzvertrag lizenziert: Namensnennung 4.0 International Um die Bedingungen der Lizenz einzusehen, folgen Sie bitte dem Hyperlink: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de Umschlaggestaltung: Sarah Pertermann Druck: docupoint GmbH Magdeburg ISBN 978-3-86956-457-9 Zugleich online veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der Universität Potsdam: https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-42654 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426542 Contents Preface ................................. xiii J.M. M. Brown, Andreas Schmidt, Marta Wierzba I Morphological branch 1 The instrumental -er suffix ..................... 3 Susan Olsen Bienenfresserortungsversuch: compounding with clause-embedding heads .................... 15 Barbara Stiebels Leben mit Paradoxien ........................ 27 Manfred Bierwisch Zur Analysierbarkeit adverbieller Konnektive ......... 37 Ilse Zimmermann Measuring lexical semantic variation using word embeddings ........................ 61 Damir Cavar II Syntactic branch 75 Intermediate reflexes of movement: A problem for TAG? .. 77 Doreen Georgi Towards a Fanselownian analysis of degree expressions ... 95 Julia Bacskai-Atkari v A form-function mismatch? The case of Greek deponents .. 107 Artemis Alexiadou Why is a predicate inversion analysis problematic? Insights from existential, locative and possessive constructions . 119 Joanna Błaszczak Can unaccusative verbs undergo passivization in German? . 135 Gereon Müller On doubling unconditionals .................... 155 Radek Šimí k Wie und wo Ambiguität Ungrammatikalität vortäuscht ... 171 André Meinunger A note on apparent sluicing in Malagasy ............ 185 Craig Thiersch III Information-structural branch 211 Verum focus and negation ..................... 213 Caroline Féry, Anja Arnhold On uninterpretable features .................... 231 Josef Bayer Accusative Unaccusatives ..................... 243 Elena Titov Beware of ‘discourse markers’ ................... 257 Henry Fominyam, Thuan Tran vi Contents IV Empirical branch 273 Is it a bird? Is it a mammal? Perspectives on the learnability / trainability of new grammatical constructions ...... 275 Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Matthias Schlesewsky Im Korpus gibt’s keine Vögel nicht: A corpus study on Negative Concord in Eastern German dialects ....... 287 Malte Zimmermann Experimenting with Lurchi: V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts .......................... 307 Jana Häussler, Anne Mucha, Andreas Schmidt, Thomas Weskott, Marta Wierzba Noch kindlich oder schon jugendlich? Oder gar erwachsen? Betrachtung von Komplexitätsmerkmalen altersspezifischer Texte ..................... 323 Manfred Stede Splits and Birds ............................ 335 Stavros Skopeteas Multistability in speech and other activities .......... 343 Adamantios Gafos V Language branch 361 An anthropic principle in lieu of a “Universal Grammar” .. 363 Hubert Haider Schritte in der Sprachentstehung und -entwicklung ..... 383 Dieter Wunderlich Plato on nature (φύσις) and convention (συνθήκη) ...... 395 Peter Staudacher vii VI Memories 413 Erinnerungen an die Gründung des Instituts für Linguistik an der Universität Potsdam .................. 415 Gisa Rauh viii List of Tables 5.1 Measuring lexical semantic variation: Bag-of-Words in Context Counts ....................... 63 5.2 Measuring lexical semantic variation: Left and right combined BoW context vectors . 64 5.3 Measuring lexical semantic variation: Number of types in FastText models by language . 70 5.4 Measuring lexical semantic variation: FastText vocabu- lary overlap between languages . 70 5.5 Measuring lexical semantic variation: Proportional lexi- cal overlap by language pair . 71 5.6 Measuring lexical semantic variation: Predicted context words using FastText .................... 71 20.1 Negative Concord in Eastern German dialects: NC- occurrences across dialects . 298 20.2 Negative Concord in Eastern German dialects: Fre- quency of NC in translations of Wenker Sentence 39 . 302 21.1 V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts: overall results of the experiment . 315 21.2 V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts: results including ‘motivation’ manipulation . 315 22.1 Noch kindlich oder schon jugendlich: syntaktische Kom- plexitätsindikatoren . 325 ix List of Figures 21.1 V2 and agreement violations in poetic contexts: results of the experiment . 316 22.1 Noch kindlich oder schon jugendlich: Beispieltexte aus den drei Textquellen . 326 22.2 Noch kindlich oder schon jugendlich: Word cloud für die Kinder-Texte . 329 23.1 Splits and Birds: Linearization of quantified noun phrases in Aristophanes’ Birds . 339 24.1 Multistability in speech and other activities: speech movement data . 346 24.2 Multistability in speech and other activities: speech movement data . 347 24.3 Multistability in speech and other activities: vortex pat- terns (flying birds) . 348 24.4 Multistability in speech and other activities: phase por- traits of speech vs. non-speech . 351 24.5 Multistability in speech and other activities: model pre- dictions ............................353 x List of Abbreviations AHP Argument Prominency Hierarchy ALW Anzahl langer Wörter AS argument structure AT auxiliary tree AUC accusative unaccusative construction AW Anzahl der Wörter BoW bag of word(s) bpm beats per minute CS conceptual structure DiP discourse particle DSL durchschnittl. Satzlänge DSW durchschnittl. Wortlänge in Silben ET elementary tree E-Text an Erwachsene adressierter Text GFFS Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow GHT Guilfoyle, Hung & Travis (1992) IS Information structure IT initial tree J-Text an Jugendliche adressierter Text K-Text an Kinder adressierter Text L1 first language PF phonological form PIE Proto-Indo European QVE quantificational variability effect SF semantic form SLI specific language impairment TAG Tree Adjoining Grammar TTR Streuung der Konnektorenmenge UG universal grammar xi Glossary 1 first person part partitive 2 second person pass passive 3 third person pass2 adhortative ‘gehören’ acc accusative passive ade adessive pass3 adhortative ‘bleiben’ agr agreement passive antip antipassive pass4 reflexive ‘lassen’ passive asp aspect pl plural at actor pivot voice pfv perfective aux auxiliary prs present Cat grammatical category prt particle cl classifier prep prepositional comp complementizer prog progressive conn connegative pst past ct circumstantial pivot 1pst first past voice 2pst second past dat dative pt verbal particle decl declarative ptcp participle det determiner refl reflexive fem feminine rel relativizer fut future sm subject marker gen genitive sg singular inf infinitive sbjv subjunctive instr Instrumental tt theme pivot voice l Austronesian linker top topic marker lnk linking element unm unmarked masc masculine covert controlled n nasal argument NAct non-active morphology neg negative neut Neuter nom nominative noml nominalization obl oblique xii Preface1 J.M. M. Brown, Andreas Schmidt, Marta Wierzba Universität Potsdam This volume is dedicated to Gisbert Fanselow on the occasion ofhis60th birthday. We provide in this preface a short socio-historical context showing how the contributions in the volume link to Gisbert’s ongoing work. The range and prolificness of Gisbert’s work has led us to tryoutsev- eral approaches. In our first drafts, we compiled lists of specific themes where Gisbert has written influential papers. In grammatical theory, for instance, some of the topics were superiority effects, partial wh- movement, scrambling, and discontinuous noun phrases. However there were too many individual areas in the end, and something of the heart of Gisbert’s work was lost in the listing. We next wrote a draft focussing on the contributions and how they could be linked to Gisbert’s work from the point of view of their con- tent. However here too, what came out most prominently, more than any one theme or topic, was Gisbert’s openness as a scholar and teacher. Each of the papers in this volume presents original work by colleagues of Gisbert, some of which were inspired by Gisbert’s writing, or by ques- tions he asked and suggestions he gave during colloquia, whilst bird- 1. We would like to thank both Caroline Féry and Artemis Alexiadou for their advice and support in planning this volume. Thanks also go to the authors for their interesting and diverse contributions, and for their prompt responses and detailed comments dur- ing the typesetting process. Our student assistants Johannes Rothert and Ulrike May provided invaluable support with the bibliographies. We would also like to thank Sarah Pertermann for the difficult task of bringing syntax and ornithology together intosuch a beautiful cover design, and the Universitätsverlag Potsdam for their support during the editing