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Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward Movement Jason Overfelt, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1. Introduction. The existence of rightward movement faces at least two serious challenges. First, Ross (1967) argued that it is subject to stricter locality conditions than, for instance, wh- movement. Second, Akmajian (1975) argued that rightward movement is not obviously successive- cyclic in the
Microsoft Word - 2013-lund.doc Variation and the architecture of grammar. Where are parameters? Where is lexicalization? Data. I base my study on Italian dialects, favored by the existence of large corpora of data collected with contemporary formal grammars in mind (Atlante Sintattico Italiano, Padua; Manzini & Savoia 2005). Among the most systematically studied phenomena are those involving perso
1 (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in Translation Evelina Leivada 1 & Pedro Tiago Martins 1,2 1 Universitat de Barcelona, 2 Center of Linguistics of the University of Porto Approaching language from a biolinguistic perspective entails adopting a view of Language that is tenable from a biological, neuro-cognitive point of view. Making progress in biolinguistics corresponds to making progress in term
Microsoft Word - GLOW.docx pro as a minimal NP: towards a unified theory of pro-drop Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) In recent years, there has been a return to Perlmutter’s (l971) insight that the implicit subject in the Null Subject Languages (NSL) is a fully specified pronoun that is deleted in PF (cf. Holmberg 2005 and Roberts 2010). This view has been motivated by the observatio
GLOW 36 Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 The 36th GLOW will take place at Lund University from 2nd to 6th April 2013 (Colloquium April 3–5, workshops April 2nd and 6th). Host SOL, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University supported by The Birgit Rausing Language Programme Venue SOL, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University Main Colloquium April 3–5, 2013 THEME: FRE
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GLOW 2013 Workshop III April 6 DIACHRONIC WORKINGS IN PHONOLOGICAL PATTERNS Organizers: Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden/Meertens Instituut), Tobias Scheer (Nice-Sophia Antipolis) Contact: scheer@unice.fr Invited speaker: Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh Deadline for submission: November 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2013 Submission of abstracts: https://www.easychair.org/c
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GLOW 2013 Workshop I April 2 BIOLINGUISTICS Organizer: Anna Maria di Sciullo (Université du Québec à Montréal) Contact: disciullo4@gmail.com Invited speakers: Robert Berwick, MIT Charles Yang, UPenn Deadline for submission: November 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2013 Submission of abstracts: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glow36 This workshop addresses fundamental q
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GLOW 36, Lund April 3, 2013 Abstract composite possessor case in Udmurt* Anke Assmann Svetlana Edygarova Doreen Georgianke.assmannuni-leipzig.de jedygaromappi.helsinki.fi georgiuni-leipzig.de Timo Klein Philipp Weissertimo.kleinuni-leipzig.de philipp.weisseruni-leipzig.de 1 Introduction Observation: In Udmurt (Uralic), the possessor bears genitive or ablative. The case values are in complementary
Repairing Final-Over-Final Constraint Violations: Evidence from Basque verb clusters∗ Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS) Bill Haddican (CUNY-Queens College) April 5, 2013 1 Introduction • Focus: The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC), a generalization originally by Holmberg (2000) about the interaction between dominance relations and {head, complement} ordering cross-linguistically (Hawkins, 1983, 1995; Holm
glow handout Beata Moskal (http://homepages.uconn.edu/~bam09006) Limits on Noun-suppletion Generative Linguistics in the Old World 36 Lund, Sweden, April 2013 1/16 Limits on Noun-suppletion* Beata Moskal, University of Connecticut (beata.moskal@uconn.edu) 1 Introduction Suppletion: a single lexical item is associated with two phonologically unrelated forms, the choice of form depending on the morp
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Deriving the Functional Hierarchy Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius CASTL, University of Tromsø GLOW 36, Lund University April 4, 2013 1 Introduction 1.1 The problem (1) The Minimalist Program strives to go beyond “explanatory ade- quacy” (an explanation of how language can be learned) to develop a plausible account for how human linguistic ability could have evolved (Chomsky 2005 inter alia).
Glow 36, at Lund: Workshop on Diachronic Workings in Phonological Patterns 1 Palatalisation and the Role of Morphological Bases Across the Italian Lexicon Sam Steddy, MIT, steddy@mit.edu ABSTRACT: I propose that a palatalisation rule in Italian misapplies because of Base-to-Derivative correspondence effects. In previous work I showed that the rule misapplies in verbal morphology because verbs stan
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Anti-reconstruction, anti-agreement and the dynamics of A-movement Gary Thoms University of Edinburgh GLOW 36, Lund April 3-5, 2013 1. Introduction • Empirical focus of this paper: A-reconstruction, i.e. reconstruction in A-chains, typically for scope. (1) An Austrian is likely to win the race. a. there is an Austrian that is likely to win the race: ∃> likely b. it is likely that an Austrian will
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1 Visser’s Generalization and the c-command condition on Control Jacek Witkoś (wjacek@amu.edu.pl) & Sylwiusz Żychliński (sylwiusz@amu.edu.pl) 1. Introduction The major focus of this presentation is Visser’s Generalization (Visser 1973), an observation that holds of very similar terminal strings in (1a-b), where the passive transformation is compatible with an Object Control predicate (cf. 2b) but
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Dinka and the architecture of long-distance extraction∗ Coppe van Urk (cvanurk@mit.edu) Norvin Richards (norvin@mit.edu) Massachusetts Institute of Technology GLOW 36, Lund University In the Nilotic language Dinka Nyarweng, both C and v have the EPP property: one XP must sit in their specifier (1) and (2): (1) CP XP C’ C TP . . . (2) vP XP v’ v VP . . . In this talk, we show that this system provi
Version: 26 March 1 Colloquium Program: GLOW 36, Lund University Wednesday April 3 Venue: The main lecture hall 1 08:30-18:00 Registration open – Please register 09:00-09:15 Welcome and announcements 09:15-10:15 Eric Reuland and Anna Volkova (Utrecht) Reflexivity without reflexives 10:15-11:15 Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein and Philipp Weisser (Leipzig) Possessor case in Udmurt: A local r
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GLOW 36, 2013, Lund University, Sweden http://konferens.ht.lu.se/glow-36/glow-home/ Version: 26 March Wednesday April 3 Venue: The main lecture hall 1 08:30-18:00 Registration open – Please register 09:00-09:15 Welcome and announcements 09:15-10:15 Eric Reuland and Anna Volkova (Utrecht) Reflexivity without reflexives 10:15-11:15 Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein and Philipp Weisser (Leipzig
Version: 26 March GLOW 36 Workshop III – Diachronic Workings in Phonological Patterns (Saturday 6 April, 2013) Venue: H435 1 Workshop Program 09:00-12:00 Registration open – Please register 09:45–10:30 Daniel Silverman (sjsu) On the evolution of heterophony: lexical semantic pressures on phonological alternations 10:30–10:45 Coffee/Tea Break 10:45–11:30 Sam Steddy (MIT) Palatalisation Across the I
A neoparametric approach to variation and change in English modals Elizabeth Cowper & Daniel Currie Hall Theoretical background How can syntactic structures vary from one language to another, or from one stage to another in the history of a single language? The strongest version of the cartographic approach to syntax says, in effect, that they cannot: “if some language provides evidence for […] a
