{"id":11699,"date":"2018-11-26T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2018-11-25T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T22:22:06","slug":"mit-colloquium-1130-martina-martinovic-university-of-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/11\/26\/mit-colloquium-1130-martina-martinovic-university-of-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 11\/30: Martina Martinovic (University of Florida)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inamartinovic.com\/\">Martina Martinovic<\/a> (University of Florida)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Bi-clausal progressives in Wolof (partly joint work with Marie-Luise Schwarzer)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, November 30th, 3:30pm-5pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Place:\u00a0<\/strong>32-155<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In many languages, clauses predicating location and progressive constructions are related. Progressives often develop from or contain locative markers\/copulas, or entire locative constructions (Heine &amp; Reh 1984, Heine et al. 1991, Demirdache &amp; Uribe-Etxebarria 2000, Heine &amp; Kuteva 2002). Much work has shown that progressive constructions are often bi-clausal, consisting of a locative clause that embeds a nominalized complement clause or an adjunct (Comrie 1978, Bybee et al. 1994, Fontanals &amp; Simon 1999, Polinsky &amp; Comrie 2002, Laka 2006, Salanova 2007, Coon 2010).<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I discuss the syntax of default progressive construction in Wolof, which contain the element angi, in the literature most commonly considered to be progressive aspect. I reanalyze angi as a bimorphemic element composed of the A?-complementizer and a locative clitic. This is supported by the fact that progressive clauses can be extracted out of. Next, I propose that progressives in Wolof are biclausal, consisting of a locative clause that embeds a reduced imperfective infinitival clause. I give two pieces of evidence for this claim. First, PP modifiers can only follow the main verb in mono-clausal constructions in Wolof. In progressive constructions, however, they can precede the verb, suggesting that they are modifying a higher predicate. Second, progressive constructions cannot be negated, which would be puzzling under a mono-clausal analysis. A bi-clausal analysis straightforwardly accounts for this fact, because the two clauses that the progressives consist of \u0097 the locative clause and the reduced imperfective infinitival clause \u0097\u00a0 independently cannot contain negation. This work gives further cross-linguistic support for the bi-clausality of progressive structures, and enriches the typology of bi-clausal progressives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Martina Martinovic (University of Florida) Title:\u00a0Bi-clausal progressives in Wolof (partly joint work with Marie-Luise Schwarzer) Time:\u00a0Friday, November 30th, 3:30pm-5pm Place:\u00a032-155 Abstract: In many languages, clauses predicating location and progressive constructions are related. Progressives often develop from or contain locative markers\/copulas, or entire locative constructions (Heine &amp; Reh 1984, Heine et al. 1991, Demirdache &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}