Expletiveness in grammar and beyond

This paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for Universal Grammar. Looking into different instantiations of expletive subjects and impersonal pronouns, definite articles, negative markers and plu...

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Autores: Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894, Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Expletiveness
Syntactic expletives
Semantic expletives
Identity function
Speech acts
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spelling Expletiveness in grammar and beyondTsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253ExpletivenessSyntactic expletivesSemantic expletivesIdentity functionSpeech actsThis paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for Universal Grammar. Looking into different instantiations of expletive subjects and impersonal pronouns, definite articles, negative markers and plural markers in various natural languages, we reach the following generalizations: (i) expletive categories are deficient functional elements interpreted as introducing an identity function at the level of semantic representation, (ii) they can be divided into syntactic expletives, that occur to satisfy some syntactic relationship with another item in the clause, and semantic expletives, that stand in a semantic dependency with some c-commanding category, and (iii) expletive categories tend to develop additional meaning components that are computed beyond core grammar, at the level where speech act-related information is encoded. Our discussion reveals that all categories that have been traditionally considered as expletive in the linguistic literature are interpretable in grammar or beyond and, thus, do not violate Chomsky's Full Interpretation Principle. We conclude that there are no expletive elements in natural languages and that expletiveness is not a grammatically relevant concept. 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/311387https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.16995/glossa.5807reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3113872026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
title Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
spellingShingle Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894
Expletiveness
Syntactic expletives
Semantic expletives
Identity function
Speech acts
title_short Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
title_full Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
title_fullStr Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
title_full_unstemmed Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
title_sort Expletiveness in grammar and beyond
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894
Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
author Tsiakmakis, Evripidis|||0000-0001-6799-7894
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Espinal, M. Teresa|||0000-0002-8079-7253
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Expletiveness
Syntactic expletives
Semantic expletives
Identity function
Speech acts
topic Expletiveness
Syntactic expletives
Semantic expletives
Identity function
Speech acts
description This paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for Universal Grammar. Looking into different instantiations of expletive subjects and impersonal pronouns, definite articles, negative markers and plural markers in various natural languages, we reach the following generalizations: (i) expletive categories are deficient functional elements interpreted as introducing an identity function at the level of semantic representation, (ii) they can be divided into syntactic expletives, that occur to satisfy some syntactic relationship with another item in the clause, and semantic expletives, that stand in a semantic dependency with some c-commanding category, and (iii) expletive categories tend to develop additional meaning components that are computed beyond core grammar, at the level where speech act-related information is encoded. Our discussion reveals that all categories that have been traditionally considered as expletive in the linguistic literature are interpretable in grammar or beyond and, thus, do not violate Chomsky's Full Interpretation Principle. We conclude that there are no expletive elements in natural languages and that expletiveness is not a grammatically relevant concept.
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