{"id":11611,"date":"2018-10-29T06:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2018-10-28T20:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:26:31","slug":"syntax-square-1030-suzana-fong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/29\/syntax-square-1030-suzana-fong\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/30 - Suzana Fong"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speaker:<\/b>\u00a0Suzana Fong<\/a>\u00a0(MIT)<\/div>\n
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Title:\u00a0<\/b>Asymmetries in the licensing of bare nominals in Wolof<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Date and Time:<\/b>\u00a0Tuesday, October 30, 1-2pm<\/div>\n
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Location:<\/b>\u00a032-D461
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In this research in progress, I try to analyze some properties of the syntactic behavior of bare nominals (i.e. nominals without an overt determiner) in Wolof (Niger-Congo), (1c).<\/div>\n
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a.<\/div>\n
Awa defar na oto bi\/yi.<\/i>

\nAwa fix NA.3sg car the.SG\/the.PL<\/div>\n
‘Awa fixed the car\/the cars.’\u00a0<\/div>\n
b.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Awa defar na ab\/ay oto.<\/i>

\nAwa fix NA.3sg some.SG\/some.PL car

\n‘Awa fixed some car\/some cars.’<\/div>\n
c.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Awa defar na oto.<\/i>

\nAwa fix NA.3sg car

\nLit.: ‘Awa fixed car.’<\/div>\n
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Bare nominals in Wolof are apparently singular in that\u00a0(i)<\/i>\u00a0they can bind a singular reflexive, though not a plural one;\u00a0(ii)<\/i>\u00a0they cannot saturate a collective predicate, and\u00a0(iii)<\/i>\u00a0a sentence containing a bare nominal cannot be followed up by the question\u00a0how many<\/i>\u00a0targeting the bare nominal.<\/div>\n
However, added plural morphology elsewhere in the sentence “turns” bare nominals plural. A plural relative clause or plural genitive agreement render a bare nominal\u00a0(i)<\/i>\u00a0an adequate binder for a plural anaphor and\u00a0(ii)<\/i>\u00a0an appropriate argument for a collective predicate. Conversely, plural verbal morphology has no effect in the licensing of\u00a0(i)<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0(ii)<\/i>. The first asymmetry to explain, then, is why nominal-internal plural morphology in relative clauses and genitive agreement are able to “turn” a bare nominal plural, but verbal morphology does not have the same effect.<\/div>\n
A second asymmetry that I will describe is that\u00a0(iii)\u00a0<\/i>a\u00a0how many\u00a0<\/i>follow-up becomes felicitous due to the addition of plural morphology not only from a relative clause or genitive agreement, but also from verbal agreement.<\/div>\n
I will present a tentative analysis where bare nominals in Wolof come in two varieties, a singular and a plural one, number being determined by the type of Phi-P (Sauerland 2003) that tops off the bare nominal. With an additional stipulation of a featural difference between a singular and a plural Phi-P and some assumptions about binding, I will try to derive the binding and\u00a0how<\/i>\u00a0many<\/i>\u00a0data. I will also comment on how the analysis falls short of accounting for the collective predicate data.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker:\u00a0Suzana Fong\u00a0(MIT) Title:\u00a0Asymmetries in the licensing of bare nominals in Wolof Date and Time:\u00a0Tuesday, October 30, 1-2pm Location:\u00a032-D461 Abstract: \u00a0 In this research in progress, I try to analyze some properties of the syntactic behavior of bare nominals (i.e. nominals without an overt determiner) in Wolof (Niger-Congo), (1c). \u00a0 (1) a. Awa defar na oto […]<\/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-11611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611","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=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}