John Moore

• PhD
• Professor at University of California, San Diego

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic behavior of object arguments in Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in central Sudan. In particular, we focus on multiple object constructions (ditransitives, applicatives, and causatives) and show that these objects exhibit symmetrical syntactic behavior; e.g., any object can passivize or be realized...

This article analyzes the way in which migration control laws are metaphorically conceptualized in the voices of individuals who demonstrate emotional solidarity with irregular immigrants. The metaphors studied are shown to constitute a coherent conceptual corpus that reveals their users’ ideology. These metaphors present a cultural narrative that...

Frente a los estudios del discurso político relacionado con la inmigración, que se han ocupado preferentemente del retrato del inmigrante efectuado por sus detractores, este trabajo descubre la imagen del inmigrante según la dibujan las voces de ideología contraria, que lo defienden y respaldan haciendo uso de un discurso de resistencia, que cuesti...

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic behavior of object arguments in Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in central Sudan. In particular, we focus on multiple object constructions (ditransitives, applicatives, and causatives) and show that these objects exhibit symmetrical syntactic behavior; e.g., any object can passivize or be realized...

This work grew out of presentations at a 1999 LSA Institute workshop, which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of David Perlmutter and Paul Postal's 1974 LSA Institute course (where the theory of relational grammar (RG) was first presented). While the papers in this volume all bear on the issue of GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS (or GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS, h...

This article exemplifies LANGUAGE-INTERNAL EXPLANATION. It seeks to document and to explain the inability of Russian impersonal clauses to be infinitival. We argue that this gap is the consequence of two independent facts of Russian grammar: a case restriction on a silent expletive pronoun and the requirement that subjects of infinitival clauses be...

This book develops a theory of semantically induced argument encodings based on the proto-property argument selection proposal of David Dowty. Such a theory is designed to cover much of the empirical terrain of mapping/linking theories in identifying the principles of correspondence between the lexical semantics of predicates and the grammatical fu...

What are DATIVE SUBJECTS? This paper argues that this term hasbeen applied to two distinct constructions. In one, the surface subjectis in the dative case. In the other, a dative-marked nominal that behaveslike a subject in certain respects is not, we claim, a surface subject. Dative nominals of the second type have been analyzed in Relational Gram...

This paper will examine a class of morphosemantic alternations, where the semantic contrast is in terms of TELICITY, and the encoding alternation is realized on the object argument in affirmative clauses containing personal verb forms.

There have been essentially two types of theoretical approaches to account for the grammatical relations associated with the causee argument of causative constructions. Ignoring the specifics of particular theories, there are transitivity based approaches in which the causee is a direct object when the embedded clause is intransitive, and an indire...

This paper presents evidence from Turkish Raising Constructions that argues that A-chains should potentially terminate in a pronominal element. This is motivated by the possibility of raising from finite clauses in some varieties of Turkish. However, these Raising constructions do exhibit Specified Subject Condition effects, arguing for a theory of...

This paper argues that OBJECT CONTROLLED RESTRUCTURING constructions in Spanish (introduced with predicates such as permitir 'permit') challenge common analyses that treat Restructuring predicates as LIGHT VERBS or modals/auxiliaries (e.g. Roberts 1997). It further argues, counter Kayne (1989), that Object Controlled Restructuring cannot be assimil...

This paper examines two types of causative construction in Spanish, referred to here as hacer1and hacer2constructions. Various properties of these constructions suggest that they should respectively be analyzed as involving ECM and object control. Notwithstanding , hacer2constructions contrast with uncontroversial object control constructions in te...

This book discusses a class of Reduced Constructions which exhibit both mono- and bi-clausal characteristics. In Spanish, as well as other Romance languages, the most salient mono-clausal characteristic is the possibility of clitic climbing, i.e. the possibility of an object clitic attaching to a verb that is higher (in the appropriate sense) than...

1. Goals ¾ Explore a proposal for MORPHOSYNTACTIC LEXICAL OPERATIONS which combines LEXICAL MAPPING THEORY and Dowtyian ARGUMENT SELECTION. ¾ Demonstrate that the modest domain over which Dowtyian argument selection was originally formulated can be extended for wider empirical coverage, contra claims by Davis and Koenig (2000). 2. Challenges posed...