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...
Syntax Seminar
Haines Hall 110Syntax Seminar: Show and tells!
Haines Hall 110Syntax Seminar: Hilda Koopman – Syntax Semantics mismatches and syntax phonology mismatches together: evidence from English, German, and Dutch
Haines Hall 110This is a practice talk for a workshop
Syntax Seminar: Hendrik Kim and Vahideh Rasekhi
Haines Hall 110Syntax Seminar: Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze
Haines Hall 110Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze will be giving two joint practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January. 1. Dialects "haven’t got" to be the same: modal...