@article{Lampart2017, author = {Lampart, Fabian}, title = {Form and Content, Again}, series = {Journal of Literary Theory}, volume = {11}, journal = {Journal of Literary Theory}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1862-5290}, doi = {10.1515/jlt-2017-0008}, pages = {74 -- 82}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The following statement suggests reconsidering recent debates on a theory of lyric in terms of form and content. Four aspects and issues of the ongoing debate are discussed. In a first step, it is necessary to establish the relation between authorial poetics and lyric theory, since it is often characterised by fuzzy boundaries. Secondly, in order to specify the problem of form in lyric theory, it is suggested to have a closer look at the performative in lyric practice. Another important aspect of form is the semantics of lyrical genres. Lyrical genres mark an area in which form and content are intertwined and in which aspects of the form itself become semantic. Finally, the author argues that we should discuss - if possible assisted by a didactics sensitive to literary texts - whether and how theoretical proposals could be transformed into a practice of teaching poetry.}, language = {en} } @article{VicenteBarrosMessicketal.2021, author = {Vicente, Luis and Barros, Matthew and Messick, Troy and Saab, Andres}, title = {On a nonargument for cleft sources in sluicing}, series = {Linguistic inquiry}, volume = {52}, journal = {Linguistic inquiry}, number = {4}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0024-3892}, doi = {10.1162/ling_a_00390}, pages = {867 -- 880}, year = {2021}, abstract = {On the basis of certain semantic intuitions, Barros (2012) argues that ellipsis does not require structural isomorphism between elided structure and its antecedent. We tackle this claim. Semantic intuitions cannot be a pointer to the analysis of silent structure. We provide empirical evidence that raises the question of to what extent semantic intuitions about plausible articulable syntax must inform one's analysis of silent structure. We conclude that the answer to this question must be crosslinguistically informed. We conjecture that ellipsis introduces ellipsis-specific interpretive mechanisms, so that intuitions about "how the unelided structure would be interpreted" are not empirically relevant.}, language = {en} }