Syntax-Semantic Seminar: First Spring Meeting
Campbell Hall 2122Syntax-Semantics Seminar: John Gluckman
Campbell Hall 2122Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Maayan Adar
Campbell Hall 2122Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Maayan Abenina-Adar, “Know whether-sentences and ever-free relatives”
Campbell Hall 2122In certaindiscourses, a know whether sentence is unacceptable when its answer iscommon knowledge as in (1). Similarly, an ever-free relative isunacceptable when the identity of its referent is known in...
Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Byron Ahn “How to Build “Yourself” Up: Reflexive Anaphors from the Inside-Out”
Campbell Hall 2122Explorations of reflexivity have looked at how a set of reflexive anaphors distribute in larger structures (particularly in clauses), taking for granted that reflexive anaphors constitute a natural class to...
Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Iara Mantenuro & Brice Roberts, UCLA “Classifiers as nP heads in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec”
Campbell Hall 2122Abstract: In Mixtec, nominal classifiers can occur both in compound-like constructions and in nominal constructions with adjectives. (1) tí-ñòñò CFR:3animal-honey ‘bee’ (2) ti-lo’ò CFR:3sphere-small.SG ‘small one’ We claim that in...
Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig), “Structure Removal: A New Approach to Conflicting Representations”
Campbell Hall 2122Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig) A standard assumption of earlier versions of generative grammar was that transformations can remove syntactic structure -- either complete subtrees of a phrase marker (as in...