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  1. Dec 2015
  2. Sep 2015
    1. IQ is determined by dividing a score in an intelligence test (the mental age) by chrono-logical age.

      That sounds strange. Would that mean that 60yr old would get half the IQ of a 30yr old based on the same results to a test?

    2. Müller, Stefan. 2014d. Kernigkeit: Anmerkungen zur Kern-Peripherie-Unterscheidung.In Andreas Nolda, Athina Sioupi & Antonio Machicao y Priemer (eds.),Zwischen kernund peripherie(studia grammatica 76

      ...In Antonio Machicao y Priemer, Andreas Nolda & Athina Sioupi (eds.), Zwischen Kern und Peripherie ;)

    3. X theory,76–162X theory, 80X-Theory,76,77,95,97,98,127,131,153,158,160,169,245,429,498,519,520,528,640,789X Theor

      There are many Index-entries which appears twice or in this case 4 times. It is probably a problem of the scope of \index \index{\textbf{x}} =/= \index{x}

    4. it is not possible to havea combination ofthewith a nominal constituent if this constituent was not already builtup from lexical material by Merge

      Probably, it would be helpful to know why one would like to analyse fragments of phrases. Fragments are not utterances, they don't have a truth value, they only appear as parts of bigger phrases and their grammaticality can not be judged. Furthermore fragments are highly ambiguous. "und auf die" e.g. could be a part of "Er wartet auf Maria ["und auf die" Kinder"], or "Er trinkt wieder ["und auf die" Kinder hat er wieder nicht aufgepasst]." In these 2 structures, what is coordinated are completely different things (PPs or CPs). It is the complete structure which reveals the function and the combinatorial potential of its parts.

    5. by ten Hacken will never bea problem

      I thought that ten Hacken's problem was based rather on the assumption of "maximally-specific values", and since features must be maximally-specific, there is a problem saying that "cousins" has the value "gen", since "underspecified" is not maximally specific. One could say that values are "as maximally specific as necessary", but since the cases in 6 require gender marking it is problematic to assume that its plural don't (according to maximal specificity of values)

    6. I showedthat spurious ambiguities arise for a particular analysis of verbal complexes in Germanwhen one resolves the values of a binary feature (flip). This can be avoided by thecomplicated stipulation of a value in certain contexts

      It is not quite clear where the feature "FLIP" has been discussed, and what is the connection of FLIP and spurious ambiguities with gender.

    7. with ditransitive verbs inX Theory. InX Theory, it is assumed that a headis combined with all its complements at once

      But cf. Larson, Richard K. 1988. On the Double Object Construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19: 335-391. for a binary analysis of double object constructions in English, and the theories developing the VP shells (and later the Little vP).

    8. For problems of sufferers of Williams Syndrome in the area of morphosyntax, seeKarmiloff-Smith et al.(1997). The discussion about Williams Syndrome is summarizednicely inKarmiloff-Smith(1998)

      move to footnote

    9. However, gender is normally a grammatical notion

      The numerous (gender)masculine forms in German which can be used for both sexus-feminine and sexus-masculine are further examples, e.g.: "Jeder hat es gelesen." >> sex-masc and sex-fem "Jede hat es gelesen." >> only sex-fem. The (gender)masculine form in German does not encode sexus, more than that, it is underspecified with respect to it.

    1. n the case that adverbs and prepositions cannot be assigned to a particular class,then adverbs are normally used as a kind of “left over” category in the sense that allnon-inflecting words, which are neither prepositions, conjunctions nor interjections, areclassed as adverbs

      This paragraph is slightly confusing

    2. Larson as-sumes that the littlevcontributes a causative semantics

      A minor point: The idea of causative light verbs was not used by Larson 1988. (I think it started in Hale & Keyser 1993.) Larson also didn't use the term 'little v' (I am not sure, but I think that term was introduced in Chomsky's black book).

    3. of the featuredouble slash

      Double slash is introduced more thoroughly around p.305. I would consider introducing it more thoroughly on p.284, or at least putting a comment that you are going to discuss it more fully on p. 305.

    4. as well as those who assume that the noun formsthe head of the phrase

      --> while others assume that the noun is the head of the phrase. Ich würde auch Bruening hier zitieren, da du ihn schon in der Bibliographie hast. Ich würde hier auch den Begriff "DP" bzw. "DP hypothesis" einführen, da der Begriff "DP" später auftaucht.

    5. theory, which

      The comma makes this have a non-restrictiveinterpretation (it is billed both as a theory and as being able to explain all languages). The expression "can explain all languages" might be better as 'is applicable to all languages'.

    6. Neg head,

      I don't know if you say it elsewhere, but Neg heads bother me in that they require non-local selection. The intermediate Neg projection doesn't interfere with the strict sequence of auxiliaries and their ability to determine the inflectional fom of the V/Aux immediately below them (He might not have been being interviewed, He might have not been being interviewed etc.). One could use the Minimalist device of Agree to make sure that each Aux probes down to the next lowest V and alters its form. The probe could get past Neg, so that part of the problem disappears. But something would have to guarantee the correct order of English auxilaries, which in English is invariable. If we appeal to the Cinque hierarchy to predict that, we get problems like (a) the need to have several different Neg positions (e.g. for these seen in the examples above and (b) what to do with languages like German, where we get alternations of the type "er kann das gemacht haben" vs. "er hat das machen können". (I think there was an explicit claim that the Pollock theory of Neg requires non-local selection in Thomas Ernst 1992 "Phrase structure of English negation" in Linguistic REview).

    7. This problem can be solved either

      It might perhaps be worth mentioning that the problem for (12) does not exist if one assumes the DP hypothesis.

  3. Jul 2015
  4. May 2015
    1. n on various grammatical theories, Müller fills what was a major gap in the literature.” Karen Lehmann, Zeitschrift ür Rezen- sionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “Stefan Müller’s recent introductory textbook, “Grammatiktheorie”, is an as- tonishingly comprehensive and insightful survey for beginning students of the present state of syntactic theory.” Wolfgang Sternefeld und Frank Richter, Zeit- schrift ür Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 “This is the kind of work that has been sought after for a while. [...] The im- partial and objective discussion offered by the author is particularly refreshing.” Werner Abraham, Germanistik, 2012

      Umrandungen

  5. Apr 2015
    1. tonation. This finding is not consistent with the hypothesis that temporal information is part of representations for intonational categories, contra H2 as well. Response times are only slightly higher when intonation is made ambiguous,

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    2. eover, if duration was a secondary (compared to f0 contour) prosodic cue to sentence modality contrasts, we would expect a stronger effect of tempo manipulation when intonation is ambiguous (bXfAdQ vs bXfAdA vs bXfAdS: see

      c10

    3. pulations is stronger if melodic information is made ambiguous or unavailable. The fact that our resynthesis procedure only yielded stimuli with acoustically (and not perceptually) ambiguous melodic information does not allow us to draw definitiv

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    1. 'We've tried that before, and nobody would take you,' said his mother; 'we must sell Milky-white and with the money start a shop, or something.'

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