Speaker: Elise Newman (MIT)
Title: Referendum on nominal licensing
Time: Tuesday, February 25th, 1pm – 2pm
Location: 32-D461
Abstract: Come one, come all to a very informal discussion about nominal licensing! When I say nominal licensing, Im referring to one aspect of debates about case theory, namely whether case theory is about the distribution of nominals or just about their morphology. This is related to the head-licensing vs. dependent case theory debate, but not identical to it whether heads are responsible for assigning case or not, we still need to separately figure out whether the outcome is a set of predictions about where nominals can be, or a set of predictions about what they should sound like (or both).
Im not an expert on this topic, and you dont need to be an expert on this topic to participate! The goal is to learn from each other and crowd source examples and literature. I will prepare some discussion points and examples, and share some details of the model of case that I tend to use (with some of its problems). Please come share yours with us and try to think of good test cases to tease the two theories apart!