{"id":10234,"date":"2017-09-05T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10234"},"modified":"2017-09-03T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:33:27","slug":"ling-lunch-97-colin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/09\/05\/ling-lunch-97-colin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 9\/7 - Colin Davis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Colin Davis (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong>  Intermediate Stranding, Constraints on Movement, and Cyclic Linearization<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday, September 7, 12:30-1:50pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I argue that certain rarely considered facts about stranding point us towards a particular understanding of some general issues in syntactic theory, namely: The theory of phasal domains\/spellout, and the nature of movement operations. In particular, using data from English, West Ulster English, Afrikaans, Polish, and Russian, I examine scenarios where material is pied-piped with one step of movement and stranded with a subsequent step, stranding that material at an intermediate position in the clause. I show that this phenomenon of intermediate stranding is subject to the following descriptive generalization:<\/p>\n<p>(1). <em>Intermediate stranding is only possible when the stranded material is, or can be, linearly to the right of the material that continues to move leftward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I argue that the Cyclic Linearization theory of phase spellout (Fox & Pesetsky 2005, Ko 2014) and a theory of movement as driven by Probe-Goal Agree (Chomsky 1995, Ko 2014, van Urk 2015), and thus constrained by c-command, precisely predicts exactly this generalization, while the commonly held theory of phases, and a view of movement as free and untriggered, cannot. These results also point us to a new perspective on what constrains movement out of moved elements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Colin Davis (MIT) Title: Intermediate Stranding, Constraints on Movement, and Cyclic Linearization Date and time: Thursday, September 7, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: I argue that certain rarely considered facts about stranding point us towards a particular understanding of some general issues in syntactic theory, namely: The theory of phasal domains\/spellout, and the nature of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}