{"id":11558,"date":"2018-10-15T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2018-10-15T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:00:26","slug":"syntax-square-1016-neil-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/15\/syntax-square-1016-neil-banerjee\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/16 - Neil Banerjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><b>Speaker:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neilb.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">Neil Banerjee<\/a> (MIT)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"left\"><b>Title:<\/b>\u00a0Embedded subject licensing properties of\u00a0<i>hope<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Date and Time:<\/b>\u00a0Tuesday, October 16, 1-2pm<\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><b>Location:<\/b>\u00a032-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <b>Abstract:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Iatridou (2017) notes that\u00a0<i>hope\u00a0<\/i>shows mixed properties in term of Pesetsky&#8217;s (1992) classification of verbs that take non-finite complements in that it allows both PRO and traces as subjects of the embedded infinitive.<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. I hope to win the race.<br clear='none'\/>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b. Alex is hoped to know the answer to your question.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will show that the behaviour of\u00a0<i>hope<\/i>\u00a0is systematically variable, but not mixed. Present-oriented uses behave like<i>\u00a0wager<\/i>\u00a0verbs in allowing traces but not PRO and future-oriented uses behave like\u00a0<i>demand<\/i>\u00a0verbs in allowing PRO but not traces.<\/p>\n<p>(2) *Alex is hoped to win the race.<\/p>\n<p>I adopt Pesetsky&#8217;s proposal that empty categories in this position are (anti-)licensed cross-clausally by the matrix verb and develop an account of the behaviour of\u00a0<i>hope<\/i>\u00a0based on Wurmbrand&#8217;s (2014) proposal that future infinitives contain a syntactic realisation of a future operator. I propose that a doxastic (un)certainty presupposition of the verb determines whether or not the future operator is optional, obligatory, or banned in the complement of a given verb, and that this operator is a barrier to licensing of traces. Thus, as noted by Martin (2001), only future infinitives will allow PRO in their subjects. Such an account links the cross-clausal empty category (anti-)licensing abilities of the verb to its semantics, rather than relying on syntactic selection as in Pesetsky (1992). This facilitates a movement away from theories that posit purely syntactic restrictions on the derivation to ones that are more interface-oriented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Neil Banerjee (MIT) Title:\u00a0Embedded subject licensing properties of\u00a0hope Date and Time:\u00a0Tuesday, October 16, 1-2pm Location:\u00a032-D461 Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0 Iatridou (2017) notes that\u00a0hope\u00a0shows mixed properties in term of Pesetsky&#8217;s (1992) classification of verbs that take non-finite complements in that it allows both PRO and traces as subjects of the embedded infinitive. (1) a. I hope to win the [&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-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","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=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}