Lynen Fellowship - Case and Coordination

Lynen 奖学金 - 案例与协调

• 批准号: 1451098
• 负责人: Jonathan Bobaljik
• 金额: $ 3.46万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lynen; Fellowship; Case; Coordination

This project, funded primarily by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), affords an opportunity for an international collaboration, allowing a German post-doctoral scholar to conduct research in theoretical morphosyntax at the University of Connecticut, with a research group led by Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik. The research project aims to provide a better understanding of unbalanced case forms in coordination. In major European languages, two conjoined noun phrases normally bear the same case forms - in a sentence like "The prize will be given to [us and them]," both pronouns in the bracketed expression are in the accusative form as both serve as the object of the preposition to. It is known that in many languages, only one of the noun phrases in a conjunction will bear the case form appropriate to the conjunction as a whole in this way. For example, in the Uralic language Mari, only the second noun in a conjoined object phrase bears the regular case for the syntactic context the other expression is unmarked.While sporadic examples are known, this project on the one hand undertakes a cross-linguistic survey of these constructions (which have not been systematically surveyed in the literature) and on the other hand develops case studies of selected examples, particularly from Uralic, a theoretically rich group of understudied languages. Theoretically, the research builds on Weisser's (2014) doctoral research on asymmetries in clausal coordination, where it is argued that apparently symmetrical coordinations have an internal hierarchical structure. Research questions to be asked bear on a number of broad themes in linguistic theory including the relationship between case and agreement (asymmetries in coordination are much more well studies in agreement than in case), the role of linear order versus structure in morphological and syntactic generalizations. More broadly, by conducting a broad, cross-linguistic survey along with selected case studies informed by specific research hypotheses, the project contributes to a more refined understanding both of cross-linguistic diversity and the limits of such variation.

该项目主要由亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会（Alexander von Humboldt Foundation）（德国）资助，为国际合作提供了机会，允许德国的博士后学者在康涅狄格大学的理论形态学研究中进行研究，并由乔纳森·鲍尔吉克（Jonathan Bobaljik）博士领导。该研究项目旨在更好地了解协调中的不平衡案例形式。在主要的欧洲语言中，两个相互结合的名词短语通常具有相同的情况形式 - 在诸如“奖品将授予[美国和他们）之类的句子中，括号表达式中的两个代词都以宾语形式为宾语形式，因为这两者都作为介词的对象。众所周知，在许多语言中，连词中只有一个名词短语会以这种方式形成适合整个连词的情况。例如，在乌拉拉语语言中，只有一个连接的对象短语中的第二个名词对句法上下文的常规案例构成了定期案例，而另一个表达式则没有标记。虽然知道了零星的示例，但该项目一方面对这些结构进行了跨语言调查（在其他案例中尤其是在文献中进行了尤其是在文献中进行了系统的调查）研究的语言。从理论上讲，这项研究基于Weisser（2014）关于Clausal协调中不对称的博士研究，并认为显然对称的协调具有内部层次结构。关于语言理论的许多广泛主题，包括案例和一致性之间的关系（协调中的不对称性比在形态和句法概括中，线性顺序与结构的作用更为良好）。从更广泛的角度来看，通过进行广泛的跨语言调查以及由特定研究假设所启示的选定案例研究，该项目有助于对跨语言多样性和这种差异的局限性更加完善。