| January 30 | Organizational Meeting |
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| February 7 | Shota Momma | "Reflexes of successive cyclic movement in English production" | |
| Joint meeting with Psycho Workshop in N400 at 10am | |||
| February 13 | Snow!! | ||
| February 20 | Özge Bakay | "An Experimental Investigation of Conjunct Agreement in Turkish" | |
| Joint meeting with Psycho Workshop in N458 at 9am
Several languages exhibit multiple agreement strategies with coordinated phrases such that a verb may agree with the entire phrase or one of its conjuncts, (i.e. full or partial agreement). Availability of partial agreement is often formulated with syntactic as well as post-syntactic processes. Here we report three acceptability rating tasks on Turkish, which systematically examined verbal agreement strategies with preverbal and postverbal coordinated subjects. Our results show (i) partial agreement with subject phrases coordinated with ve `and' and veya `or', (ii) sensitivity in partial agreement to conjunct types such as pronouns and (iii) between- and within-participant variance, suggesting the presence of different grammars. |
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| February 27 | Rajesh Bhatt | "Relative Clauses and some parallels with comparatives" | |
| Rajesh gives us a quick and sketchy introduction to relative clauses and indicates how comparatives can be seen as having the same kind of structure. | |||
| March 6 | Beccy Lewis | On Thoms and Sailor (2018) | |
| Beccy will present the material in this paper as preparation for her colloquium talk on March 7. | |||
| March 13 | Satoru Ozaki | Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis | |
| Satoru will practice the talk he is to give at GLOW. | |||
| March 27 | Joey Sabbagh | Pseudo-Cleft analyses of Wh-Questions: A Tagalog Case Study | |
| While virtually all research on wh-questions in Tagalog assumes that they have a bi-clausal (pseudo-)cleft structure, this work argues against this analysis. I re-visit two of the primarily empirical arguments for the presumed pseudo-cleft structure that have been cited in the literature and argue that such arguments are weak, inconclusive, and/or contradicted by previously unobserved data. The evidence, I argue, lends support to a `conventional’ analysis of wh-questions for Tagalog in which they are derived by wh-movement. The arguments to be made center around a number of phenomenon, including: Second positions clitics, the distribution of modals, (obligatory) pied-piping, and reconstruction effects. More broadly, this work may be viewed as part of a larger claim that no language exclusively requires wh-questions to take the form of a pseudo-cleft. Though the claim to the contrary appears frequently for Austronesian languages (Tagalog, Malagasy, among others), Adger & Ramchand have also (recently) made the claim for Gaelic. | |||
| April 3 | Lulu Guo | "Analysing Chinese A-not-A questions with Right-node Raising" | |
| The present study provides novel data from Chinese A-not-A questions that cannot be accounted for in classical analyses of A-not-A derivations (Huang 1991; Huang et al. 2009). This work ultimately shows that the [V-not-VP] type of A-not-A questions (where materials are missing from the VP preceding the negator) is not derived from reduplication (Huang 1991) and is better captured as cases of Right-node Raising phenomena, constrained by general prosodic phrasing principles. | |||
| April 10 | Mariana Calderón | tba | |
| April 17 | Timea Szarvas | tba | |
| April 24 | Helen Chen | tba | |
| May 1 | Noa Bassel | tba | |
| May 8 | Elliot Murphy | The Merge Hypothesis through the Lens of Statistical Physics | |
| Joint meeting with the Acquisition/Recursion Group |