Syntax Seminar: Zhuo Chen
Campbell 3103D"Deconstructing yes-no questions: what moves and what doesn’t" Bailey (2013) and Holmberg (2016) propose that the formation of yes-no questions involves a polarity phrase (PolP), the head of which is a polarity variable with open value (), realized as a question particle -ko/-kö in Finnish and A-not-A in Mandarin. The polarity variable moves to the...
Syntax Seminar: Guisi Silvestri, Greg Kobele
Campbell 3103DSyntax-Semantics Joint Seminar
2122 Campbell HallGraduate Student Presentations (alphabetically) Colin Brown: Interrogative mood marking in Sm’algyax Zhuo Chen: Argument or adjunct: cognate objects in Dschang Marju Kaps: Information structural effects in coordination ambiguity resolution: Eyetracking evidence from Estonian Travis Major: Complementation via `say' serialization Maura O'Leary: Tense in nouns Richard Stockwell: The syntax of free relative clauses Beth Sturman: Exploring...
Syntax Seminar: Iara Mantenuto
Campbell 3103DSyntax Seminar w Hilda Koopman: A case study of Huave morphology-as-syntax
ZoomMy research focuses (in part) on the question to what extent morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. In this talk I will present a case study and reanalysis of the morpheme orders in Huave (San Francisco del Mar), a language isolate spoken in Oaxaca. Its variable morpheme...
Syntax Seminar – Dschang fest from LSA
ZoomZhuo Chen and Blake Lehman: An Argument analysis of cognate objects in Dschang (Yemba)) Colin Brown and Harold Torrence: Predicate Focus doubling in Dschang: implications for Clausal Syntax.