https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia cs-CZ lb@phil.muni.cz (Linguistica Brunensia) journals@phil.muni.cz (Technická podpora OJS FF MU) Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 OJS 3.2.1.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42311 Marcin Wągiel, Markéta Ziková Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42311 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38591 Locality has long been regarded as a key factor constraining "non-local" syntactic dependencies. There has also been proposed another locality requirement, Anti-Locality, which prohibits "too-local" syntactic dependencies. This paper aims to account for the (im)possibility of extraposition from subjects in terms of Anti-Locality. Johnson (1985) observes that extraposition is only allowed from the D-structure object position. Put differently, extraposition from subjects of unergative/transitive predicates (henceforth, external subjects) is prohibited, whereas extraposition from subjects of unaccusative/ passive predicates (henceforth, internal subjects) is allowed. We argue that this contrast is best explained by Erlewine's (2020) Spec-to-Spec Anti-Locality Condition. Building on Fox – Nissenbaum's (1999) QR-and-late-merger analysis of adjunct extraposition from objects, we propose that adjunct extraposition from subjects is derived via two distinct operations: parallel movement of host NPs (Chomsky 2008) and late-merger of adjuncts (Lebeaux 1988). A host subject NP undergoes covert focus A-bar movement and overt A-movement simultaneously, with an extraposed adjunct introduced in the derivation via late-merger. Under a cartographic view (Belletti 2004; Cruschina 2011), we propose that the landing site for the host NP's covert focus A-bar movement is the Spec position of TP-internal Foc(us)P, and that extraposition from external subjects is ruled out precisely because covert focus A-bar movement of the host NP from Spec,vP to Spec,TP-internal FocP violates the Spec-to-Spec Anti-Locality Condition. The Anti-Locality analysis further predicts that when an additional XP—such as a sentence adverbial—intervenes in the host NP's movement path, extraposition from external subjects should be permitted, avoiding Anti-Locality-violating configurations. We demonstrate that this prediction is borne out. Naoki Nakamura Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38591 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38652 The German memory predicates noch wissen ('still know') and sich erinnern ('refl remember') are each used to report two kinds of remembering that are commonly considered clearly distinct in philosophy and cognitive science: experiential remembering of personally experienced events and fact-only remembering of propositions. This methodological paper brings together my existing semantic and experimental work on memory reports involving these predicates. It discusses the questions (i) to which extent experiments on memory predicates can be decisive between formal semantic accounts and (ii) which methodological challenges arise from the multi-disciplinary nature of debates on different kinds of remembering. I argue that to do justice to the usage of memory predicates, individual judgements about other people's cognition must be given a place in the composition. However, any semantic account fulfilling this requirement becomes harder to falsify and the decision between many possible formal accounts is reduced to a modelling choice. Emil Eva Rosina Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38652 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38585 This paper discusses the role of the reportative subjunctive in the factivity-assertivity-alternation in German and Polish. It contributes to research stating that factivity is not an inherent feature of a predicate but an effect of structural configurations. We show that cognitive and emotive factives can have both a factive and a non-factive interpretation, depending on the syntactic frame they appear in. Factive meanings arise when an embedded indicative clause is introduced by the complementizer dass in German and że in Polish. In German, the presence of a complementizer forces an embedded verb to appear head-final. In Polish, there is no such restriction. German additionally allows for the complementizer-less verb-second subordinate clauses, but only with matrix communication verbs. In this case, an embedded proposition functions as an independent (mediated or shifted) assertion. Our crucial point is that this V2-order is acceptable with factive verbs like regret, be happy, remember, find out, etc. if an embedded verb is marked for the reportative subjunctive. What happens then is that the factive matrix verb is reinterpreted as a verb of communication. In Polish, the complementizer-alternation fulfills the same function. If the subordinate clause is being introduced by jakoby instead of że, the embedded proposition expresses an assertion, towards which a matrix subject has a cognitive or an emotional attitude (stating to have found out, expressing with regret, etc.). Crucially, in both German and Polish, subjunctive clauses, in contrast to indicative clauses, cannot be coreferent with a proform. This indicates that the former, in contrast to the latter, are born as reports, and that the latter, in contrast to the former, have a nouny origin. The goal of this paper is to describe the factivity-assertivity-alternation in German and Polish and to present an outline of a theoretical explanation. Karolina Zuchewicz, André Meinunger Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38585 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/39075 This paper provides a novel analysis of the Mandarin Chinese perfective particles -le and -guo, based on observations regarding their ability to obtain the resultative reading and the exhaustivity inference in certain question-answer pairs. I argue that these differences follow from the different at-issue contents these two particles allow. While -le allows various constituents in the sentence to at-issue, the at-issue content of a -guomarked sentence is always the existence/instantiation of the event. The study concludes by examining cross-linguistic patterns in tense-aspectual constructions and discusses potential implications for understanding similar distinctions in other languages. Ruoying Zhao Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/39075 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38533 This note presents a novel observation and proposes a modification of an existing analysis to account for it. The novel observation is that an exceptive, i.e. an adverbial phrase headed by the word "except", gives rise to oddness when the noun phrase containing it as an adjunct is combined with a cardinal determiner, i.e. one which comes with a presupposition about the number of elements in the denotation of its complement. Thus, there is a contrast between the sentence "all members of the Beatle except John Lennon gave an interview", which is perfectly acceptable, and the sentence "all four members of the Beatles except John Lennon gave an interview", which is odd, the difference between "all" and "all four" being that the latter presupposes that its complement NP denotes a set containing four members. The existing analysis of exceptives which I propose to modify in order to account for such contrasts is that presented in Vostrikova (2021). According to this analysis, exceptives are eliptical clauses. Thus, Vostrikova claims that the logical form of the sentence "all members of the Beatles except John Lennon gave an interview" would be something like "all members of the Beatles gave an interview except John Lennon did not give an interview". The modification I make to Vostrikova's analysis consists in minimally changing one part in the three-part truth condition which she assigns to exceptive constructions. This minimal change results in undefinedness when noun phrases containing exceptives combine with cardinal determiners. I also present a brief discussion of the analysis of exceptives proposed by von Fintel (1993) which takes exceptives to be NP modifiers, and one proposed by Moltman (1995) which takes exceptives to be DP modifiers. Tue Trinh Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/38533 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42145 Marcin Wągiel Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/42145 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/41716 Martin Henzelmann Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/41716 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/41359 Radim Lacina Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/41359 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40172 Michaela Boháčová Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40172 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40757 Adéla Kereková Copyright © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs https://journals.phil.muni.cz/linguistica-brunensia/article/view/40757 Ne, 30 lis 2025 00:00:00 +0100