Recursion across Domains -

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Résumé :
An exploration of two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - that looks in particular at the cognitive skills we must possess in order to manipulate language. Integrating cross disciplinary methodologies, it will be of importance to scholars and advanced students of syntax, cognitive linguistics, and language typology.

Sommaire:
Introduction: a map of the theoretical and empirical issues Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia, Andrew Nevins and Tom Roeper; Part I. Speech Reports, Theory of Mind and Evidentials: 1. False speech reports in Pirah?: a comprehension experiment Uli Sauerland; 2. Indirect recursion: the importance of second-order embedding and its implications for cross-linguistic research Bart Hollebrandse; 3. Recursion in language and the development of higher order cognitive functions: an investigation with children acquiring Brazilian Portuguese Let?cia M. S. Corr?a, Marina R. A. Augusto, Mercedes Marcilese and Clara Villarinho; 4. Embedding as a building block of evidential categories in Kotiria Kristine Stenzel; 5. Embedded imperatives in Mby? Guillaume Thomas; Part II. Recursion along the Clausal Spine: 6. Word order in control: evidence for self-embedding in Pirah? Cilene Rodrigues, Raiane Salles and Filomena Sandalo; 7. Switch-reference is licensed by both kinds of coordination: novel K?s?dj? data Rafael Nonato; 8. Clausal recursion, predicate raising and head-finality in Teneteh?ra F?bio Bonfim Duarte; 9. Recursion in Tupi-Guarani languages: the cases of Tupinamb? and Guarani Marcia Maria Damaso Vieira; Part III. Recursive Possession and Relative Clauses: 10. Recursive possessives in child Japanese Akikio Terunuma and Terue Nakato; 11. Recursion of possessives and locative phrases in Kawaiwete Suzi Lima and Pikuruk Kaiabi; 12. Relative clauses in Wapichana and the interpretation of multiple embedded 'uraz' constructions Luiz Amaral and Wendy Leandro; 13. Multiple embedding of relative clauses in Karitiana Luciana Storto, Karin Vivanco and Ivan Rocha; Part IV. Recursion in the PP Domain: 14. Recursion in the acquisition path for hierarchical syntactic structure Tom Roeper and Yohei Oseki; 15. Self-embedded recursive postpositional phrases in Pirah?: a pilot study Filomena Sandalo, Cilene Rodrigues, Tom Roeper, Luiz Amaral, Marcus Maia and Glauber Romling da Silva; 16. Strong continuity and children's development of DP recursion Ana T. P?rez-Leroux, Anny Castilla-Earls, Susana B?jar, Diane Massam and Tyler Peterson; 17. Prosody and recursion in Kuikuro: DPs vs PPs Bruna Franchetto; 18. The processing of PP embedding and coordination in Karaj? and in Portuguese Marcus Maia, Aniela Fran?a, Aline Gesualdi, Aleria Lage, Cristiane Oliveira, Marije Soto and Juliana Gomes.