{"id":11211,"date":"2018-08-18T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2018-08-18T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:43:00","slug":"special-summer-talk-jessica-coon-mcgill-thursday-823-1pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/08\/18\/special-summer-talk-jessica-coon-mcgill-thursday-823-1pm\/","title":{"rendered":"special summer talk: Jessica Coon (McGill) \u0097 Thursday 8\/23, 1pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/jessica.lingspace.org\">Jessica Coon<\/a> (McGill)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title: <\/strong><b class=\"\">\u00a0<\/b>Feature Gluttony and the Syntax of Hierarchy Effects \u00a0 (joint work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~keine\/\">Stefan Keine<\/a>, USC)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> Thursday, August 23, 1:00pm-2:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a032-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This\u00a0talk offers a new take on a family of hierarchy effect-inducing configurations,\u00a0with a focus on Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects (Anagnostopoulou 2005,\u00a0Nevins 2007) copular constructions (Coon, Keine, and Wagner 2017), and\u00a0dative-nominative configurations (Sigurdsson &amp; Holmberg 2008, Rezac 2008).\u00a0Following\u00a0previous work, we take these effects to arise in contexts in which\u00a0two accessible DPs are found in the same domain as a single agreeing probe\u00a0(B\u00e9jar &amp; Rezac 2003;\u00a0Anagnostopoulou 2005). We draw on Cyclic Agree in the\u00a0sense of B\u00e9jar &amp; Rezac (2009), according to which an articulated probe\u00a0continues probing if at least some\u00a0features are left unvalued after an Agree\u00a0relation.<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n B\u00e9jar\u00a0&amp; Rezac (2003) and many related accounts seek to derive hierarchy effects\u00a0from an\u00a0underapplication\u00a0of Agree and\u00a0concomitant failures of nominal licensing,\u00a0formalized as a Person Licensing\u00a0Condition (see also B\u00e9jar &amp; Rezac 2009, Baker 2011, Preminger to appear). By\u00a0contrast, we argue that hierarchy effects are the\u00a0result of an\u00a0overapplication\u00a0of Agree. We propose\u00a0that in hierarchy effect-inducing structures, a probe participates in more than\u00a0one valuation relation, effectively\u00a0\u0093biting off more than it can chew\u0094, a configuration\u00a0we refer to as\u00a0feature gluttony.\u00a0Feature gluttony\u0096\u0096i.e., the coexistence of multiple values on a single probe\u0096\u0096can\u00a0then create conflicting requirements for subsequent operations, leading to a\u00a0crash.<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n Our\u00a0account captures commonalities and differences across hierarchy constructions,\u00a0both in terms of the types and specifications of the features involved, as well\u00a0as in\u00a0the result of hierarchy violations and their possible repairs. In the\u00a0case of PCC configurations, a probe which interacts with more than one DP\u00a0creates an intervention\u00a0problem for clitic-doubling. In violations involving\u00a0agreement, gluttony in features may result in a configuration with no available\u00a0morphological output. Important\u00a0motivation for our account comes from the fact\u00a0that hierarchy effects commonly disappear in the absence of agreement.\u00a0This is unexpected\u00a0on a standard licensing\u00a0account, but it receives a principled explanation in\u00a0terms of gluttony: because the probe that otherwise creates the conflict is\u00a0absent, the conflict disappears.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jessica Coon (McGill) Title: \u00a0Feature Gluttony and the Syntax of Hierarchy Effects \u00a0 (joint work with Stefan Keine, USC) Date\/Time: Thursday, August 23, 1:00pm-2:30pm Location:\u00a032-D461 Abstract: This\u00a0talk offers a new take on a family of hierarchy effect-inducing configurations,\u00a0with a focus on Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects (Anagnostopoulou 2005,\u00a0Nevins 2007) copular constructions (Coon, Keine, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11215,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions\/11215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}