Mark Steedman (Informatics Edinburgh)<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00\u201312:30 Greenberg proposed as his 20th Universal a generalization about the possible language-specific orders over the elements of the noun-phrase (NP).\u00a0Greenberg’s original statement has been modified a number of times, and a number of attempts have been made to explain its various reformulations in terms of “constraints on movement” of those elements within a single primary ordering corresponding to a universal order of merger or dominance, defined ultimately by their semantic types<\/p>\n The present paper begins by proposing a new generalization concerning the orderings allowed over the elements of the NP in rigid and more freely ordered languages. This generalization can be parsimonously captured in a theory of grammar without movement or other syntactic “action-at-a-distance” between non-contiguous elements. This theory predicts that only two of the twenty four permutations over these four elements are universally excluded. This prediction constitutes a formal universal, in that it follows from the theory of grammar itself, and appears to be both qualitatively and statistically confirmed by the data<\/p>\n The paper goes on to show that the same generalization appears to hold over a number of cases of order alternations in clausal serial-verb constructions in a number of languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Combinatory Universal Grammar Mark Steedman (Informatics Edinburgh) Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00\u201312:30 3.10 Dugald Stewart Building Greenberg proposed as his 20th Universal a generalization about the possible language-specific orders over the elements of the noun-phrase (NP).\u00a0Greenberg’s original statement has been modified a number of times, and a number of attempts have been made to explain … Continue reading 15 May: Mark Steedman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n3.10 Dugald Stewart Building<\/p>\n