The Semantic Basis for Subject/object Asymmetries in English
Honegger, Mark Andrew
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Description
Title
The Semantic Basis for Subject/object Asymmetries in English
Author(s)
Honegger, Mark Andrew
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Morgan, Jerry
Department of Study
Linguistics
Discipline
Linguistics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Linguistics
Language
eng
Abstract
However, there are sentences which show an asymmetry between the temporal location of the subject in the eventuality and other constituents in the sentence, such as Aunt May resembled Sally, where Aunt May is dead and Sally is alive. The state of resembling cannot be contained wholly in the past and exclude the present. In such a situation, neither Sally nor the resembling is located by the tense but only Aunt May. The simplest hypothesis that captures these facts is to stipulate that the tense combines only with the subject and not anything else in the sentence.
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