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 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...
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 both cases the classifier is the head of the noun phrase. However, while in constructions with nominalized adjectives the classifier has referential properties (similar to...
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 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,...
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