{"id":11723,"date":"2018-12-03T06:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11723"},"modified":"2018-12-03T03:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:59:04","slug":"syntax-square-1128-yadav-gowda-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/12\/03\/syntax-square-1128-yadav-gowda-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/4 - Yadav Gowda (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speaker:<\/b> Yadav Gowda<\/div>\n
Title:<\/b> Clausal downstepping and extraposition<\/div>\n
Date and Time:<\/b> Tuesday, December 4, 1-2pm<\/div>\n
Location:<\/b> 32-D461<\/div>\n
Abstract:<\/b><\/div>\n
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In this talk, I’ll argue for a surprising condition on the prosody of embedded CPs, which I’ll call\u00a0Clausal Downstepping:<\/b><\/p>\n

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(1)\u00a0Clausal Downstepping<\/b>: All phonological material within a CP must be immediately downstepped with respect to the phonological material of the head which immediately projects over it.<\/p>\n

Downstep is a cross-linguistically attested phenomenon in which high tones within a prosodic domain are lowered with respect to preceding high tones, triggered at specific points within an utterance. It has been well-established that in many languages, downstep has a strong connection to syntactic and prosodic structure.\u00a0I’ll give a brief primer on the relevant prosodic background and show the varying ways that (1) is satisfied cross-linguistically.<\/p>\n

Next, I’ll argue that (1), along with the inherently left-to-right nature of downstep, provides an explanation for the commonly attested phenomenon of clausal extraposition. Clausal extraposition, a phenomenon seen in many SOV (German, Hindi, Turkish, Persian) and VOS (Malagasy, Toba Batak) languages, involves clausal objects obligatorily appearing in a peripheral position (2) despite normal objects appearing in a non-peripheral position (3) .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(2) a. Frank hat mir erz\u00e4hlt [dass die Eintracht Meister wird]<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Frank has me told [that the Eintracht champion becomes]<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u0091Frank told me that Eintracht will become champions.\u0092<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 b. * Frank hat mir [dass die Eintracht Meister wird] erz\u00e4hlt<\/div>\n
(3) a. Frank hat mir [die Wahrheit] erz\u00e4hlt.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Frank has me [the truth] told<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u0091Frank told me the truth.\u0092<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 b. * Frank hat mir erz\u00e4hlt [die Wahrheit].<\/div>\n

Furthermore, I’ll argue that (1) provides better empirical coverage of the surface distribution of CPs in these languages than previous prosodic, syntactic, and semantic accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Yadav Gowda Title: Clausal downstepping and extraposition Date and Time: Tuesday, December 4, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I’ll argue for a surprising condition on the prosody of embedded CPs, which I’ll call\u00a0Clausal Downstepping: (1)\u00a0Clausal Downstepping: All phonological material within a CP must be immediately downstepped with respect to the phonological material […]<\/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-11723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723","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=11723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11729,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11723\/revisions\/11729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}