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Colloquium Talk – Barbara Citko

Economy in PF-Reduction: Why and when (not) to elide multidominant structures? In this talk, reporting on joint work with Martina Gračanin-Yuksek, we examine two ways in which a syntactic structure can be PF-reduced (unpronounced): multidominance (MD) and ellipsis. If both ellipsis and MD are available in principle, the following questions arise: (i) what factors influence the choice between ellipsis and...

Colloquium Talk – Maria Gouskova

Location: Royce Hall 362 Phonological Selection in Small Sublexicons Affixes can impose phonological restrictions on the stems they attach to: only consonant-final stems, or stems no bigger than two syllables. These restrictions remain poorly understood and under-formalized. For example, Prosodic Morphology-era analyses characterize adjectival -er/-est affixation as selecting for a trochee, but it remains a...