{"id":10653,"date":"2017-11-20T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2017-11-19T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T23:02:16","slug":"syntax-square-1121-stanislao-zompi-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/11\/20\/syntax-square-1121-stanislao-zompi-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/21 - Stanislao Zomp\u00ed (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Stanislao Zomp\u00ed<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0*ABA in case morphology and what it may teach us<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday November 21, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, I try to lay out a comprehensive survey of *ABA effects in case morphology, with an emphasis on case syncretism, case-based wholesale suppletion, and case-based stem-formative allomorphy. Building on work by Baerman et al. (2005), McFadden (2017), and Smith et al. (2017), I claim that all three of these phenomena are constrained by the following universal: No Vocabulary-Insertion rule can apply to both an inherent case and an unmarked core case (nominative\/absolutive) without also applying to another core case (accusative\/ergative). The case hierarchy that such *ABA effects motivate is thus one where the ergative consistently occupies the same \u0091middle field\u0092 as the accusative, instead of patterning with inherent cases. This offers a new kind of argument against approaches that treat the ergative as just another inherent case, and it favors instead those case-assignment theories that do put ergative and accusative in the same box. Prominent among these is Marantz\u0092s (1991) dependent-case theory, whereby accusative and ergative are both treated as dependent cases\u0097i.e. assigned to nominals that stand in an asymmetric c-command relation to another as-yet-caseless nominal nearby (cf. also Yip et al. 1987). In this light, I reinterpret Marantz\u0092s disjunctive case-assignment hierarchy as a proper containment hierarchy: [[[UNMARKED] DEPENDENT] INHERENT].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Stanislao Zomp\u00ed Title:\u00a0*ABA in case morphology and what it may teach us Date and time: Tuesday November 21, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0 In this presentation, I try to lay out a comprehensive survey of *ABA effects in case morphology, with an emphasis on case syncretism, case-based wholesale suppletion, and case-based stem-formative allomorphy. Building on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10655,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}