{"id":10517,"date":"2017-10-23T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2017-10-22T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T23:43:00","slug":"syntax-square-1024-sherry-chen-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/10\/23\/syntax-square-1024-sherry-chen-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/24 - Sherry Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sherrychen.org\/\">Sherry Chen<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Double topicalization, I find really interesting<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday October 24, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether Chinese topics are syntactically constrained remains a debatable issue. In this talk, I present on-going work suggesting that in double topicalization constructions, the base- generated topic must precede the moved topic, and if both topics are derived via movement, the two intersecting movement paths must be in a \u0093nested\u0094 relation (i.e. the Path Contain ment Constraint, Pesetsky (1982)). This challenges the view that Chinese topics are only constrained by a semantic \u0093aboutness\u0094 relation with the comment clause (cf. Xu and Lan- gendoen, 1985), and provides new cross-linguistic evidence for PCC effects (see Appendix).<\/p>\n<p>For the second part of this talk, I discuss a new puzzle regarding topicalization in embedded environments. Specifically, I observe that for certain predicates in non-asserted contexts (Hooper &amp; Thompson, 1973; Miyagawa, to appear), embedded topicalization is possible only if the matrix subject binds a pronoun or a reflexive\u00a0<em>ziji<\/em>\u00a0in the embedded clause.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sherry Chen (MIT) Title: Double topicalization, I find really interesting Date and time: Tuesday October 24, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0 Whether Chinese topics are syntactically constrained remains a debatable issue. In this talk, I present on-going work suggesting that in double topicalization constructions, the base- generated topic must precede the moved topic, and if [&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-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517","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=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}