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Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Maayan Abenina-Adar, “Know whether-sentences and ever-free relatives”
Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Maayan Abenina-Adar, “Know whether-sentences and ever-free relatives”
In certaindiscourses, a know whether sentence is unacceptable when its answer iscommon knowledge as in (1). Similarly, an ever-free relative isunacceptable when the identity of its referent is known in some relevant way,as in (2).(1) A: Don'tforget your umbrella. It's going to rain today.B: Yes, Iknow { #whether, that } it's going to rain today. I...
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Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Byron Ahn “How to Build “Yourself” Up: Reflexive Anaphors from the Inside-Out”
Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Byron Ahn “How to Build “Yourself” Up: Reflexive Anaphors from the Inside-Out”
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...
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Phonetics Seminar: Byron Ahn (Princeton), “In Search of Intonational Variation and Systematicity beyond ToBI”
MAE_ToBI, the gold-standard of intonation annotation for American English, aims to provide an annotation system of the categorical (phonemic) aspects of intonation. In this way, a single MAE_ToBI label is used for multiple f0 contours; thus, by design, many aspects of the prosody are not transcribed. If the ToBI labels are a primary source for...
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Friends of Linguistics – Lectures by Benjamin Lewis & Natasha Abner
Friends of Linguistics – Lectures by Benjamin Lewis & Natasha Abner
Friends of Linguistics Event Flyer Directions to Charles E. Young Grand Salon
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Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Iara Mantenuro & Brice Roberts, UCLA “Classifiers as nP heads in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec”
Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Iara Mantenuro & Brice Roberts, UCLA “Classifiers as nP heads in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec”
Abstract: 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...
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Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig), “Structure Removal: A New Approach to Conflicting Representations”
Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Gereon Mueller (Universitaet Leipzig), “Structure Removal: A New Approach to Conflicting Representations”
Gereon 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,...