{"id":11071,"date":"2018-04-30T06:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2018-04-30T04:58:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:58:54","slug":"syntax-square-51-tanya-bondarenko-colin-davis-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/04\/30\/syntax-square-51-tanya-bondarenko-colin-davis-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 5\/1 - Tanya\u00a0Bondarenko &#038; Colin Davis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"il\">Tanya<\/span>\u00a0Bondarenko &amp; Colin Davis (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Parasitic gaps, covert pied-piping, and left branch extraction in Russian\u00a0<i>[FASL practice]<\/i><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_109079471\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, May 1st<\/span><\/span>, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>A well-known trait of Slavic languages is left branch extraction (LBE), the A&#8217;-movement of elements out of the left edge of the nominal phrase. While much of Slavic allows LBE, languages like English do not, requiring pied-piping of the entire nominal phrase instead.\u00a0 This difference presents a puzzle for syntactic theory, which we argue is clarified by the behavior of parasitic gaps (PGs; Engdahl 1983, Nissenbaum 2000) in Russian (Ivlieva 2007). We argue that patterns of PG licensing in LBE derivations teach us that LBE involves covert pied-piping of the containing NP, rather than true extraction out of NP.\u00a0 This result unites the syntax of Russian with non-LBE languages, indicating that both are subject to something like Ross&#8217; (1967\/1986) Left Branch Condition (LBC). Consequently, LBE in Russian must be (at least in the cases under discussion) derived by a PF operation like scattered deletion\u00a0(Fanselow &amp;\u00a0?avar 2005,\u00a0Bo\u009akovi?\u00a02015). This finding suggests that the difference between languages that allow so-called LBE, and those that do not, is the availability of this operation at the PF interface in the first group.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Tanya\u00a0Bondarenko &amp; Colin Davis (MIT) Title:\u00a0Parasitic gaps, covert pied-piping, and left branch extraction in Russian\u00a0[FASL practice] Date and time: Tuesday, May 1st, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: A well-known trait of Slavic languages is left branch extraction (LBE), the A&#8217;-movement of elements out of the left edge of the nominal phrase. While much of Slavic allows [&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-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071","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=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}