BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Linguistics - UCLA - ECPv6.17.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of Linguistics - UCLA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T173000 DTSTAMP:20210119T171448Z CREATED:20210115T173549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T171448Z UID:27890-1611072000-1611077400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar - Show and Tell DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-11/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T173000 DTSTAMP:20210119T171324Z CREATED:20210115T173356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T171324Z UID:27887-1610467200-1610472600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar - Dschang fest from LSA DESCRIPTION:Zhuo Chen and Blake Lehman: An Argument analysis of cognate objects in Dschang (Yemba)) \nColin Brown and Harold Torrence: Predicate Focus doubling in Dschang: implications for Clausal Syntax. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-10/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210105T173000 DTSTAMP:20210119T170959Z CREATED:20210115T173308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T170959Z UID:27885-1609862400-1609867800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar w Hilda Koopman: A case study of Huave morphology-as-syntax DESCRIPTION:My 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 order has been argued in various papers by Yuni Kim (2008\, 2010\, 2015) to be driven by the phonology. I will show that a syntactic analysis is not only required\, but also feasible\, thus providing support for the morphology-as-syntax approach. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-w-hilda-koopman/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200609T170000 DTSTAMP:20200609T023014Z CREATED:20200527T014555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T023014Z UID:24586-1591718400-1591722000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Daniela Culinovich (UCLA) Ph.D. Colloquium talk DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/daniela-culinovich-ucla-ph-d-colloquium-talk-3/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200602T170000 DTSTAMP:20200602T020405Z CREATED:20200522T011511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T020405Z UID:24534-1591113600-1591117200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colin Brown and Harold Torrence (UCLA) TBA DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/daniela-culinovich-ucla-ph-d-colloquium-talk-2/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200526T170000 DTSTAMP:20200526T014558Z CREATED:20200522T011511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T014558Z UID:24533-1590508800-1590512400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Daniela Culinovich (UCLA) Ph.D. colloquium talk DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/daniela-culinovich-ucla-ph-d-colloquium-talk/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T173000 DTSTAMP:20200225T231510Z CREATED:20200130T181505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T231510Z UID:23103-1582646400-1582651800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Iara Mantenuto DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-iara-mantenuto/ LOCATION:Campbell 3103D CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T170000 DTSTAMP:20200224T211901Z CREATED:20200211T013919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T211901Z UID:23293-1582556400-1582563600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Joint Seminar DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Presentations (alphabetically) \nColin Brown: Interrogative mood marking in Sm’algyax\nZhuo Chen: Argument or adjunct: cognate objects in Dschang\nMarju Kaps: Information structural effects in coordination ambiguity resolution: Eyetracking evidence from Estonian\nTravis Major: Complementation via `say’ serialization\nMaura O’Leary: Tense in nouns\nRichard Stockwell: The syntax of free relative clauses\nBeth Sturman: Exploring exclamation intonation URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-joint-seminar/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall CATEGORIES:Semantics Seminar,Syntax Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Carson Sch%C3%BCtze":MAILTO:cschutze@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T173000 DTSTAMP:20200218T231517Z CREATED:20200130T181505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200218T231517Z UID:23102-1582041600-1582047000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Guisi Silvestri\, Greg Kobele DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-guisi-silvestri-greg-kobele/ LOCATION:Campbell 3103D CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T173000 DTSTAMP:20200212T231508Z CREATED:20200130T181504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T231508Z UID:23101-1581436800-1581442200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Zhuo Chen DESCRIPTION:“Deconstructing yes-no questions: what moves and what doesn’t” \nBailey (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 left periphery to obtain sentential scope\, overtly in Finnish but covertly in Mandarin. Using novel data and diagnostics from two mutually intelligible Mandarin dialects\, Wuhu and Nanjing Chinese\, I argue that (i) yes-no questions involve at least two distinct functional projections\, a question phrase (QuP) and a PolP; and (ii) what moves in yes-no question is a Q-operator base-generated at Spec QuP\, whereas the polarity variable is interpreted in-situ throughout the computation and does not move. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-zhuo-chen/ LOCATION:Campbell 3103D CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T175000 DTSTAMP:20200205T184538Z CREATED:20200129T181633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T184538Z UID:23086-1580832000-1580838600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ling 262B Syntax Seminar DESCRIPTION:Join us for a practice job talk with Travis Major. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/ling-262b-syntax-seminar/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T180000 DTSTAMP:20191204T171508Z CREATED:20191202T170830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191204T171508Z UID:22376-1575388800-1575396000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Harold Torrence DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-harold-torrence/ LOCATION:Haines A28 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T180000 DTSTAMP:20191017T155105Z CREATED:20191017T154345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T155105Z UID:21764-1574179200-1574186400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Zhou Chen Haines A28 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-zhou-chen/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T180000 DTSTAMP:20191107T230709Z CREATED:20191017T154320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T230709Z UID:21762-1573574400-1573581600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:*POSTPONED* Syntax Seminar: David Goldstein Haines A28 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-david-goldstein/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T180000 DTSTAMP:20191105T191909Z CREATED:20191105T180705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T191909Z UID:22059-1572969600-1572976800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar - Ed Keenan DESCRIPTION:Meet in Haines A28 \nRecursive Morphology in Malagasy Reciprocals \nEd Keenan     Baholy Ralalaoherivony \nWe show that verbal affix reciprocals in Malagasy have several classically lexical properties:  allomorphs\, voice conditioning\, semantic drift\, several non-compositional forms.  But we also show that two (maybe three) types of syntactically derived predicates also host reciprocal morphology (and meaning).  So the Lexicon/Syntax parameter for reciprocals (Reinhart and Siloni 2005; Siloni 2012) is not motivated in Malagasy.  We also argue that in some syntactic cases reciprocal morphology appears more than once even though only one reciprocal action is asserted.  This motivates a kind of recursive analysis which is novel as far as I know (which is not very far\, so I’m open to hearing about other morphological processes with this pattern). URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-ed-keenan-2/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T180000 DTSTAMP:20191017T154911Z CREATED:20191017T154249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T154911Z UID:21760-1572364800-1572372000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Reports from NELS Haines A28 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-reports-from-nels/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T180000 DTSTAMP:20191023T201319Z CREATED:20191017T154208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T201319Z UID:21758-1571760000-1571767200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar- No Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-ed-keenan/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000 DTSTAMP:20191017T154803Z CREATED:20191017T154120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T154803Z UID:21756-1571155200-1571162400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Tim Stowell "On Episodic Uses of Dispositional Predicates" Haines A28 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-tim-stowell-on-episodic-uses-of-dispositional-predicates/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T180000 DTSTAMP:20191017T153727Z CREATED:20191001T164521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T153727Z UID:21390-1569945600-1569952800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar "Organization and Round Table" - Haines A20 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-haines-a20/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190405T160000 DTSTAMP:20190405T194505Z CREATED:20190402T194506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190405T194505Z UID:18787-1554472800-1554480000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Seminar: "Evidence Worlds in Attitude Verbs"\, Betul Erbasi (USC) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-evidence-worlds-in-attitude-verbs-betul-erbasi-usc/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190312T160000 DTSTAMP:20190312T190015Z CREATED:20190219T184327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T190015Z UID:18122-1552402800-1552406400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar - Deborah Wong & Richard Stockwell "Elided antecedents: sluicing with except-phrases" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-deborah-wong-richard-stockwell/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Carson Sch%C3%BCtze":MAILTO:cschutze@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190305T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190305T160000 DTSTAMP:20190304T163949Z CREATED:20190304T163949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190304T163949Z UID:18289-1551798000-1551801600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:No Syntax Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/no-syntax-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190226T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190226T150000 DTSTAMP:20190226T190027Z CREATED:20190225T190008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T190027Z UID:18202-1551189600-1551193200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: no meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-no-meeting-5/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T160000 DTSTAMP:20190220T184509Z CREATED:20190205T170009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190220T184509Z UID:17698-1550588400-1550592000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: no meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-no-meeting-3/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T160000 DTSTAMP:20190212T173005Z CREATED:20190211T173045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T173005Z UID:17835-1549983600-1549987200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: no meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-no-meeting-4/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T160000 DTSTAMP:20190206T171507Z CREATED:20190204T170025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190206T171507Z UID:17686-1549378800-1549382400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: no meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-no-meeting-2/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T160000 DTSTAMP:20190130T164600Z CREATED:20190129T164407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T164600Z UID:17600-1548774000-1548777600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: no meeting DESCRIPTION:No meeting this week URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-no-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T160000 DTSTAMP:20190116T001505Z CREATED:20190111T001533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T001505Z UID:17164-1547564400-1547568000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar - Vahideh Rasekhi: "Two types of why in syntax: Evidence from Why-stripping in Persian" DESCRIPTION:Two types of why in syntax: Evidence from Why-stripping in Persian \nThis talk is an attempt to get audience feedback on my work in progress and prepare for my presentation at “Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50”\, which will be held at the University of Chicago in April. \nIn this work\, I provide an account of why-stripping in Persian (1)\, in which there is a wh-phrase cherā ‘why’ and a non-wh-phrase remnant (e.g. chips).This structure looks similar to sluicing with why\, as in (2)\, in which there is only a wh-phrase remnant cherā ‘why’. The question is whether why in these constructions has the same/different properties. I argue that why in these constructions has distinct properties and the mechanism of deriving these sentences is different. \n(1) Ayda chips khord\, vali ne-midoon-am cherā CHIPS\n Ayda chips ate.3sg but neg-know-1sg why chips\n ‘Ayda ate chips but I don’t know why chips (but not something else).’ \n(2) Ayda chips khord\, vali ne-midoon-am cherā\n Ayda chips ate.3sg but neg-know-1sg why\n ‘Ayda ate chips but I don’t know why. \nI propose that in why-stripping (1)\, why functions as ‘how come’ and is base-generated in the Spec of Int(errogative)P (Rizzi 2001)\, in the left periphery. On the other hand\, in sluicing (2)\, why functions as a regular wh-phrase in wh-questions and is focus fronted to the Spec of FocP\, prior to TP ellipsis. \nI discuss cross-linguistic generalizations and the predictions we can make regarding the positions in which why can be base-generated across languages. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-vahideh-rasekhi-two-types-of-why-in-syntax-evidence-from-why-stripping-in-persian/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T180000 DTSTAMP:20181205T231518Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181205T231518Z UID:15542-1544025600-1544032800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Ethan Poole DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-9/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T180000 DTSTAMP:20181128T230045Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T230045Z UID:15541-1543420800-1543428000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze DESCRIPTION:Richard Stockwell and Carson Schütze will be giving two joint practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January. \n1. Dialects “haven’t got” to be the same: modal microvariation in English\nWe propose a unified analysis of dialectal differences between British (Br) and North American (NoAm) English regarding ‘have-got’ – its modal scope with respect to negation and its behaviour in verb phrase ellipsis (VPE). The outright ungrammaticality of negated universal deontic ‘have-got’ in NoAm is attributed to LF reconstruction of modal ‘have’ being blocked by the overt spellout of its trace as ‘got’; whereas in Br\, deontic modality resides in ‘got’ and no reconstruction problem arises. Meanwhile\, the ‘have’ of ‘have-got’ survives VPE in Br\, but undergoes it in NoAm where ellipsis means there is no overt ‘got’. \n2. Objectless Locative Prepositions in British English\nThis paper clarifies the cross-dialectal landscape and challenges Griffiths & Sailor’s (2015\, 2017) (G&S) A-movement analysis of objectless locative prepositions (OLPs) in British English\, e.g. This film-i has monsters in __i. OLPs are restricted to in and on for southern speakers\, reflecting a need for the possession to be inherent. We argue in favour of a null pronominal analysis\, which still covers G&S’s A-movement data\, but extends empirically to bound variable interpretations and typologically to Germanic R-pronouns. URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-8/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR