{"id":10891,"date":"2018-03-05T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10891"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:56:08","slug":"syntax-square-36-colin-davis-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/03\/05\/syntax-square-36-colin-davis-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/6 - Colin Davis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/colinpbdavis\/\">Colin Davis<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Parasitic Gaps and the Structures of Multiple Movement<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday March 6, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I present some work in progress about the structure of derivations where multiple A&#8217;-movement chains overlap. These derivations show interesting complexities that do not (and could not) arise in derivations with only one A&#8217;-movement (Pesetsky 1982, Richards 1997). Towards deepening our understanding of this issue, I use Nissenbaum&#8217;s (2000) findings about parasitic gap licensing as a diagnostic for the multiple specifier structures created by successive-cyclic movement through vP in these derivations.<\/p>\n<p>This test reveals a puzzle: While Richard&#8217;s (1997) theory of specifier formation predicts tucking-in structures at vP in these scenarios, I show via parasitic gap licensing that (at least sometimes) tucking-in fails to occur. Observations about parasitic gaps in superiority violating D-linking from Nissenbaum provide another instance of the same puzzle. It seems to be the case that the structure at vP, tucked-in or not, reflects the final order of the moved phrases. This is exactly what we predict under the hypothesis of Order Preservation (Fox &amp; Pesetsky 2005). However, it remains mysterious how derivations can &#8216;know&#8217; what vP configurations to form based on what the final result of the derivation will be. I do not have a good solution, but I hope discussing these puzzles will help.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Colin Davis Title: Parasitic Gaps and the Structures of Multiple Movement Date and time: Tuesday March 6, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I present some work in progress about the structure of derivations where multiple A&#8217;-movement chains overlap. These derivations show interesting complexities that do not (and could not) arise in derivations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}