Alan Day's doubling construction

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Nation
Keyword(s):  
Doubling Construction

Comments on verb doubling construction in Japanese

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiya Kawai
Keyword(s):  
Final Particle ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Embedded Contexts ◽  
Verb Tense ◽  
Verb Doubling

AbstractThe analysis offered in “Verb doubling construction in Japanese” is critically reviewed. The analysis yield verb doubling construction (VCD) by moving a verb-tense complex (VTC) in T to C, and phonetically realizing both the moved VTC in C and its copy in T. The analysis suffers from various shortcomings. Among them, it relies upon a problematic formulation of Doubly Filled Comp Filter, and the analysis incorrectly predicts the possibility of VDC in embedded contexts. The present study offers a brief outline of a plausible alternative of VDC that involves a phonetically null sentence-final particle (SFP) whose phonetic content is copied from the predicate at the phonetic interface.

scholarly journals Infinite series of quaternionic 1-vertex cube complexes, the doubling construction, and explicit cubical Ramanujan complexes

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (06) ◽  
pp. 951-1007
Author(s):  
Nithi Rungtanapirom ◽  
Jakob Stix ◽  
Alina Vdovina
Keyword(s):  
Arbitrary Dimension ◽  
Congruence Subgroups ◽  
Quaternion Algebras ◽  
Ramanujan Graphs ◽  
Dimension Formula ◽  
Cubical Sets ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Residually Finite Groups ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Effective Use

We construct vertex transitive lattices on products of trees of arbitrary dimension [Formula: see text] based on quaternion algebras over global fields with exactly two ramified places. Starting from arithmetic examples, we find non-residually finite groups generalizing earlier results of Wise, Burger and Mozes to higher dimension. We make effective use of the combinatorial language of cubical sets and the doubling construction generalized to arbitrary dimension. Congruence subgroups of these quaternion lattices yield explicit cubical Ramanujan complexes, a higher-dimensional cubical version of Ramanujan graphs (optimal expanders).

Subject pronoun doubling in Agul

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 955-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur A. Maisak
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Clitic Doubling ◽  
Subject Pronoun ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Person Agreement

The paper describes the doubling of free personal pronouns in Agul, an East Caucasian language spoken in Daghestan, Russia. The doubling construction consists of a subject pronoun in the canonical preverbal position, paired with an identical instance of the same pronoun immediately following the verb. The first pronoun is usually adjacent to the “verb–pronoun” combination, though it can optionally be separated by another constituent. In the oral corpus consulted for the analysis, the construction is found most often with the primary verb of speech in clauses introducing a quote (e.g. ‘I said I, …’). I argue that the doubling pattern originated as the conflation of a preverbal subject with a very frequent “verb–subject” word order used with highly topical referents. The function of the doubling construction is therefore postulated to draw additional attention to the referent. A brief comparison of Agul doubling and related phenomena in other languages (e.g. person agreement and clitic doubling) is also offered.

scholarly journals The ban on headless XP-movement is not narrow syntactic

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. e021024
Author(s):  
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Remnant Movement ◽  
Doubling Construction

This paper argues that the ban on headless XP-movement should not be captured in narrow syntactic terms. That is, there is no constraint in the syntactic computation preventing remnant movement of a phrase from which the head has been extracted, i.e., so-called Takano’s Generalization is wrong. This is demonstrated through a case study of the emphatic doubling construction in Rioplatense Spanish, which requires a derivation proceeding exactly along these lines. It is further argued that the relevant prohibition should be stated as a condition that applies at PF: A preliminary conjecture on the nature of this prohibition is also offered.

A note on the girth-doubling construction for polygonal graphs

2010 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ákos Seress ◽  
Eric Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Polygonal Graphs

Perfect doubling

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Koeneman ◽  
Marika Lekakou ◽  
Sjef Barbiers
Keyword(s):  
Small Clause ◽  
Present Perfect ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Target State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Comparative Treatment

The focus of this paper is the syntax of the so-called perfect doubling construction as it occurs in dialects of Dutch, namely cases of compound tenses featuring an additional, participial have (or be). We examine the properties of the construction on the basis of recent fieldwork research, and propose an analysis, whose starting point is the assumption that auxiliary doubling as such does not exist; what we have, rather, is the perfect tense of a lexical have (and be), which takes an adjectival (small clause) complement. Dialects vary with respect to the kinds of complement these lexical verbs can take. Our micro-comparative treatment takes into account related constructions, such as the geographically restricted so-called undative construction, as well as variants thereof that exist in the standard language. Keywords: syntactic doubling; (adjectival) participles; auxiliaries; present perfect; target state; resultant state; undative construction; possession

Subject Doubling, Free Inversion, and Null Argument Languages

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Roberge
Keyword(s):  
Subject Position ◽  
Clitic Doubling ◽  
Null Argument ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Doubling Construction ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Subject Clitics

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, I shall propose a unified account of the subject doubling construction and point out its similarities and differences with respect to object doubling — the so-called clitic doubling. The discussion is based on Trentino, a northern dialect of Italian, and Colloquial French. I will argue that it is not desirable to establish a connection between subject doubling and free inversion as is implicitly assumed in Safir (1982). Rather, it seems preferable to assume that the subject clitics are generated in the AGR element of INFL and that they are associated with pro in subject position. The possibility of subject doubling is then related to a parameter making reference to the optionality of Case absorbtion or spell-out by the clitic.

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