Talks/Events
The UCLA Linguistics Department proudly sponsors a wide range of research talks. Our flagship series is the Linguistics Colloquium, which includes distinguished visiting speakers and is addressed to a general audience of linguists. Specialist talks cover a variety of areas, and are most often given by in-house speakers.
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| Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Keir Moulton; "Clause Positions" |
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Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
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| It's recently been shown for a number of languages that complement clauses bear deeper similarities to relative clauses than previously thought (Adyghe (Circassian): Caponigro and Polisnky 2011; English (Kayne 2008); Arsenjevic 2009; Indo-Aryan, Bayer 1995, 1999). We argue that this has a reflex at the syntax-semantics interface: finite CPs can't combine directly with verbal material. (Evidence for this comes from event nominalization (Stowell 1981, Grimshaw 1990).) We show how this forces various movements for composition (namely, remnant AspP fronting), which ultimately deliver the right-peripheral position of CPs attested in English and many OV languages. |
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