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Looking for Cognitive Foundations of Functional Sequences

Publication date: 21.03.2019

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Special Volume, Special Volume 1 (2019), pp. 53 - 75

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.19.006.10986

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Franc Lanko Marušič
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
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Petra Mišmaš
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
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Rok Žaucer
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
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Looking for Cognitive Foundations of Functional Sequences

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With the multiplication of various functional projections, syntactic structures became very complex entities. Approaches like Cartography (e.g. Cinque and Rizzi 2008) went one step further than most other approaches, proposing that each sentence comprises of a number of universal, strictly ordered functional projections. In the noun phrase, the strictly ordered functional projections are said to be responsible not only for the relative order of numerals, demonstratives and nouns (cf. Cinque 2005), but also for the universal order of various types of adjectives (cf. Hetzron 1978; Sproat and Shih 1991; Cinque 1994; Scott 2002, etc.). Cinque and Rizzi (2008) discuss possible origins of the many hierarchies of functional projections and suggest that they might derive from general cognition. If cognition and its restrictions are behind the hierarchy of functional projections, then the order of projections hosting adjectives should be reflected in various non-linguistic cognitive processes. We designed several experiments to test this hypothesis. Our experiments did not confirm our hypothesis; but as we have also identified problems in the design of our experiments, our results do not warrant a clear rejection of the hypothesis either.

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Special Volume, Special Volume 1 (2019), pp. 53 - 75

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-3236

Franc Lanko Marušič
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-3236 Orcid
All publications →

Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-875X

Petra Mišmaš
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-875X Orcid
All publications →

Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-6937

Rok Žaucer
Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-6937 Orcid
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Center for Cognitive Science of Language and School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13 SI-5000, Nova Gorica Slovenia

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