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 END:VTIMEZONE 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T180000 DTSTAMP:20181114T223006Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T223006Z UID:15539-1542211200-1542218400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Hendrik Kim and Vahideh Rasekhi DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-6/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T180000 DTSTAMP:20181107T223018Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181107T223018Z UID:15538-1541606400-1541613600@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Dominique Sportiche: What Non Obligatory tells us about Obligatory control and Binding DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-5/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T180000 DTSTAMP:20181030T221557Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T221557Z UID:15537-1541001600-1541008800@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Hilda Koopman - Syntax Semantics mismatches and syntax phonology mismatches together: evidence from English\, German\, and Dutch DESCRIPTION:This is a practice talk for a workshop URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-4/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T180000 DTSTAMP:20181024T221519Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181024T221519Z UID:15536-1540396800-1540404000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Show and tells! DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-3/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T180000 DTSTAMP:20181017T220032Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T220032Z UID:15535-1539792000-1539799200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Ed Keenan - A Difference between Quantifiers in Natural Language and in Logic DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-2/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T180000 DTSTAMP:20181010T103007Z CREATED:20181006T103036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T103007Z UID:15534-1539187200-1539194400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar/ LOCATION:Haines Hall 110 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180928T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180928T160000 DTSTAMP:20180928T101512Z CREATED:20180926T101507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T101512Z UID:15251-1538143200-1538150400@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax Seminar: Richard Stockwell - A view of free relatives from Minimalist Grammars; Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams-The structure of silence; a look at children's comprehension of sluicing DESCRIPTION: URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-seminar-richard-stockwell-a-view-of-free-relatives-from-minimalist-grammars-victoria-mateu-and-nina-hyams-the-structure-of-silence-a-look-at-childrens-comprehension-of-sluicing/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T150000 DTSTAMP:20180601T184525Z CREATED:20180529T183023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180601T184525Z UID:13416-1527861600-1527865200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig)\, "Structure Removal: A New Approach to Conflicting Representations" DESCRIPTION:Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig) \nA standard assumption of earlier versions of generative grammar was that transformations can remove syntactic structure — either complete subtrees of a phrase marker (as in transformations like Passive\, Equi NP Deletion\, or Indefinite Object Deletion)\, or just certain nodes or shells (see\, e.g.\, Tree Pruning as envisaged by Haj Ross\, or Chomsky’s concept of S-bar Deletion). Subsequently\, based on a more principled approach to syntactic transformations with the Projection Principle at its core\, the hypothesis that trees could genuinely shrink in this way was generally abandoned. Current minimalist approaches maintain this assumption by postulating that syntactic operations can make trees grow (via Merge) or stay the same size (via Agree) but can never make them shrink. Against this background\, and with the Projection Principle long gone\, I will argue that there is every reason to postulate a general operation Remove that is as a complete mirror image of Merge and obeys exactly the same constraints (e.g.\, featural triggers\, strict cyclicity). Evidence for Remove is partly conceptual (upon closer inspection\, such an operation turns out to be implicitly adopted in standard approaches to minimalist syntax anyway)\, but mainly empirical (also see Chomsky (2014)\, Pesestky (2016)). I will illustrate the empirical relevance of Remove on the basis of six case studies from the syntax of German: (i) passive\, (ii) applicatives\,\n(iii) ellipsis\, (iv) restructuring\, (v) complex prefields\, (vi) tough-movement (= modal passive). URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-gereon-mueller-universitaet-leipzig-structure-removal-a-new-approach-to-conflicting-representations/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180525T160000 DTSTAMP:20180525T183033Z CREATED:20180523T183122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180525T183033Z UID:13311-1527256800-1527264000@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Iara Mantenuro & Brice Roberts\, UCLA "Classifiers as nP heads in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn Mixtec\, nominal classifiers can occur both in compound-like constructions and in nominal\nconstructions with adjectives. \n(1) tí-ñòñò\n CFR:3animal-honey ‘bee’ \n(2) ti-lo’ò\n CFR:3sphere-small.SG ‘small one’ \nWe claim that in both cases the classifier is the head of the noun phrase. However\, while in\nconstructions with nominalized adjectives the classifier has referential properties (similar to\nthose of English one)\, in the compound the referential property is not available.\nThis paper offers a possible morphosyntactic account in the Distributed Morphology (DM)\nframework for the different occurrences of classifiers in Mixtec. Adapting an analysis offered for\nEnglish compounds (Harley\, 2009) we propose that in all instances of classifiers we are dealing\nwith heads of nominal nP projections\, but that in compounds the non-head noun incorporates URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-iara-mantenuro-brice-roberts-ucla-classifiers-as-np-heads-in-san-sebastian-del-monte-mixtec/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T160000 DTSTAMP:20180518T183005Z CREATED:20180514T183004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T183005Z UID:13162-1526652000-1526659200@linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Byron Ahn "How to Build "Yourself" Up: Reflexive Anaphors from the Inside-Out" DESCRIPTION:Explorations 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 which the grammar can make explicit reference (e.g.\, with binding principles). In this talk\, we will look more closely at how the internal structure of English “self-phrases” relates to their external distribution. We will conclude that self-phrases are morphosyntactically composed of (minimally) a possessive pronoun and a √SELF morpheme\, and that the reflexive distribution of an expression like “herself” comes about by a nominal-internal REFL morpheme being a local relationship with the nominal D head. This means that an English-style reflexive anaphor (i.e. a “self-phrase” whose distribution is constrained by binding principles) is a derived object; as such\, a reflexive anaphor is not a static [+anaphor] object in the lexicon. I will then speculate about grammatical operations involved in checking the phi-features of the pronominal component of the “self-phrase” (probably not Agree) and some intersections with semantics (types of meanings available depending on anaphoric form). URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-and-semantics-seminar-byron-ahn-how-to-build-yourself-up-reflexive-anaphors-from-the-inside-out/ LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122 CATEGORIES:Syntax Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR