{"id":10669,"date":"2017-11-27T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2017-11-25T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T03:00:12","slug":"syntax-square-1128-elise-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/11\/27\/syntax-square-1128-elise-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/28 - Elise Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h7 \" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"Bk\">\n<div class=\"G3 G2\">\n<div id=\":1dl\">\n<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div id=\":16w\" class=\"ii gt adP adO\">\n<div id=\":12r\" class=\"a3s aXjCH m15ff4d040e0c678d\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Elise Newman (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Middles produce easily if you have enough stuff<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday November 28, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>It has been proposed in the literature that Anti-locality (Abels 2003, Erlewine 2016) can help us understand a number of subject-object asymmetries in A-bar movement. However, it has been stipulated that such a restriction cannot exist for A-movement due to the idea that subjects move string-vacuously to Spec TP. In this talk, I argue that such subject-object asymmetries also occur with A-movement, and that they also can be explained by Anti-locality. I propose that middles are a direct reflection of this, as can be seen by regarding novel facts about middle formation that previous semantic accounts cannot explain.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Middles look like inchoative unaccusatives except for a few key differences:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>They have unexpressed external arguments<\/li>\n<li>They have an adverb restriction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(1) a. The ice melted (quickly) (all by itself).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 b. The book read *(quickly) (*all by itself).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I propose that objects of middles move through the canonical subject position on their way to Spec TP. The adverb restriction is a result of the object\u0092s sensitivity to Anti-locality as it undergoes this movement chain. The two (arguably 3) types of adverb restrictions pattern with how embedded the object is at the beginning of the derivation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Elise Newman (MIT) Title:\u00a0Middles produce easily if you have enough stuff Date and time: Tuesday November 28, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0 It has been proposed in the literature that Anti-locality (Abels 2003, Erlewine 2016) can help us understand a number of subject-object asymmetries in A-bar movement. However, it has been stipulated that such a [&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-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","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=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10671,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}