Letter to the editor on seeing an elephant: concluding the debate (for now)
This contribution is part of the Debate section that dialogues with the two-part paper "The Syntax of Existential Constructions" by Shlomo Izre'el from Tel-Aviv University published in Volume 11 in 2022. This letter is a reply to Rivka Halevy in the same section and published in Volum...
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| description | This contribution is part of the Debate section that dialogues with the two-part paper "The Syntax of Existential Constructions" by Shlomo Izre'el from Tel-Aviv University published in Volume 11 in 2022. This letter is a reply to Rivka Halevy in the same section and published in Volume 11 in 2022 and to Pavel Ozerov in the same section and published in Volume 12 in 2023. First, I will refer to Rivka Halevy’s rejoinder, where she mainly addressed typological issues, among which the syntactical status of the pivot is especially intriguing. I will then deal with Pavel Ozerov’s rejoinder, who addressed the theoretical framework upon which my analysis of the existential-presentative constructions was based. Here I will deal with the complexities in defining and analyzing a syntactic predicate and its relations to the pragmatic notion of comment. In guise of a conclusion, I will touch upon some general observations on the study of language. |
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| spelling | ojs-article-200712024-11-19T15:41:25Z Letter to the editor on seeing an elephant: concluding the debate (for now) Izre'el, Shlomo Izre'el, Shlomo Existentials Prosody Information structure This contribution is part of the Debate section that dialogues with the two-part paper "The Syntax of Existential Constructions" by Shlomo Izre'el from Tel-Aviv University published in Volume 11 in 2022. This letter is a reply to Rivka Halevy in the same section and published in Volume 11 in 2022 and to Pavel Ozerov in the same section and published in Volume 12 in 2023. First, I will refer to Rivka Halevy’s rejoinder, where she mainly addressed typological issues, among which the syntactical status of the pivot is especially intriguing. I will then deal with Pavel Ozerov’s rejoinder, who addressed the theoretical framework upon which my analysis of the existential-presentative constructions was based. Here I will deal with the complexities in defining and analyzing a syntactic predicate and its relations to the pragmatic notion of comment. In guise of a conclusion, I will touch upon some general observations on the study of language. Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2024-11-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Text application/pdf https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/joss/article/view/20071 10.20396/joss.v13i00.20071 Journal of Speech Sciences; Vol. 13 (2024): Continuous Publication; e024001 Journal of Speech Science; v. 13 (2024): Continuous Publication; e024001 2236-9740 eng https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/joss/article/view/20071/14450 Global; Contemporany Copyright (c) 2024 Shlomo Izre'el https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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