{"id":10459,"date":"2017-10-09T06:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:11:41","slug":"ling-lunch-1012-itai-bassi-and-nick-longenbaugh-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/10\/09\/ling-lunch-1012-itai-bassi-and-nick-longenbaugh-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 10\/12 - Itai Bassi and Nick Longenbaugh (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/ibassi\/\">Itai Bassi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nslonge.scripts.mit.edu\/site\/\">Nick Longenbaugh<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Features on bound pronouns: an argument for a semantic approach [NELS practice]<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> Thursday, October 12, 12:30-1:50pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Phi-features (person, gender, number) seem not to be semantically interpreted when they appear on bound pronouns. For example, in (1) the bound &#8220;my&#8221; appears to contribute an unrestricted variable, rather than a variable restricted to the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Only I did my homework<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<em>(bound reading: no x other than the speaker did x&#8217;s homework: for any x)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On one influential approach (Kratzer 1998, Heim 2008, a.o.), bound pronouns enter the derivation without phi-features, which are then transferred to them at PF from the binder. The spelled out phi-features are therefore absent at LF. Recent works (Sauerland 2013, Jacobson 2012, Spathas 2010 a.o.) have taken a more semantic approach which denies this &#8216;LF-PF mismatch&#8217; view. Those works have argued that phi-features on bound pronouns in cases like (1) do get semantically interpreted, except that they don&#8217;t contribute to focus alternatives.<br clear='none'\/>\nThis talk provides a novel argument for the semantic approach. The argument comes from the observation that (non-trivial) phi-features appear on donkey pronouns - pronouns that show covariance without c-command:<\/p>\n<p>(2) Only the woman who is dating ME introduced me to her parents<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<em>(sloppy reading available)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We show why cases like (2) are a problem for the morpho-syntactic approach and how they are derived on the semantic approach. We further demonstrate how our implementation of the semantic approach is advantageous over the morpho-syntactic approach in accounting for the phenomenon of split binding (Rullmann 2004).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Itai Bassi and Nick Longenbaugh (MIT) Title: Features on bound pronouns: an argument for a semantic approach [NELS practice] Date\/Time: Thursday, October 12, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Phi-features (person, gender, number) seem not to be semantically interpreted when they appear on bound pronouns. For example, in (1) the bound &#8220;my&#8221; appears to contribute an [&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-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","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=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10462,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}