{"id":11278,"date":"2018-09-04T05:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:51:52","slug":"ling-lunch-96-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/04\/ling-lunch-96-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 9\/6: Richard Faure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.cnrs.fr\/rubrique219?lang=fr\">Richard Faure<\/a>\u00a0(Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u0092Azur, Universit\u00e9 Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS and Harvard University)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong>Wh-fronting is not wh-movement in colloquial French<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday, 9\/6, 12:30-1:50pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>French is said to be one of those languages that have the option to form wh-questions with in-situ (1a) or ex-situ whPs (1c). It is also assumed to have optional subject-verb inversion (1d). Moreover, wh-in-situ structures come actually in two guises, with or without a prosodic break before the whP (1a vs. 1b), a fact little addressed in the literature.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(1) a. Il\u00a0 \u00a0a\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0vu\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0qui?<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0he has seen who<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0b. Il\u00a0 \u00a0a\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0vu |\u00a0 qui?<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 he has seen who<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0c. Qui\u00a0 il\u00a0 \u00a0 a\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0vu?<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 who he has seen<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 d. Qui a-t-\u00a0 il\u00a0 \u00a0vu?<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0who has\u00a0 he seen<\/p>\n<p>Starting with these four patterns, I will show that 1) not every pattern belongs to the same variety of French, 2) wh-in-situ questions with a prosodic break, but not those without it pattern with wh-ex-situ in many respects (a source of much confusion in the previous studies): Intervention effects, expressivity, contrastive contexts. Focusing then on colloquial French and the patterns illustrated by (1a) (with no prosodic break) and (1c), I will show that questions like (1c) do not display all the features of wh-movement (e.g., no superiority effect in multiple questions), and claim that colloquial French is actually a bona fide wh-in-situ language, so that wh-fronting is not wh-movement. Finally I address the question as to what triggers wh-fronting in this variety of French and tentatively suggest that it is an Exclusion feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Richard Faure\u00a0(Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d\u0092Azur, Universit\u00e9 Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS and Harvard University) Title:Wh-fronting is not wh-movement in colloquial French Date and time: Thursday, 9\/6, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0 French is said to be one of those languages that have the option to form wh-questions with in-situ (1a) or ex-situ whPs (1c). It is also [&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-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","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=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11283,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}