{"id":11743,"date":"2018-12-10T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2018-12-09T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:11:29","slug":"mit-colloquium-1213-gary-thoms-nyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/12\/10\/mit-colloquium-1213-gary-thoms-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 12\/13: Gary Thoms (NYU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Speaker:<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/as.nyu.edu\/faculty\/gary-thoms.html\"><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">Gary Thoms<\/span><\/a><b class=\"\"><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b>(NYU)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Title:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #212121; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;\">Variation and the amn\u0092t gap (<\/span>joint work with David Adger, Caroline Heycock and Jennifer Smith)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Time:<\/b> <strong><u class=\"\">Thursday<\/u><\/strong>, December 13th, 3:30pm-5pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Place:\u00a0<\/b>32-155<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Abstract:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #212121; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif;\"><span class=\"\">This talk is concerned with \u0093the amn\u0092t gap,\u0094 which refers to the absence\u00a0of a negated form for the finite auxiliary am in most varieties\u00a0of English. Bresnan (2001) notes that while the gap is persistent in\u00a0the varieties of North America and England, things are interestingly\u00a0different in Irish English and Scots: in Irish English, amn\u0092t may be\u00a0used in all syntactic contexts, and in Scots it may be used in inversion\u00a0contexts (\u0094amn\u0092t I coming with you\u0094) but not in declaratives\u00a0(\u0094I amn\u0092t coming with you\u0094). Using new data from the Scots Syntax\u00a0Atlas, I show that the empirical picture in Scotland is more complex\u00a0than what Bresnan described, and I develop an account of dialectal\u00a0variation with amn\u0092t in terms of Yang\u0092s (2016, 2017) Tolerance Principle,\u00a0where it is the productivity of the negative affixation rule which\u00a0is crucial.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Gary Thoms\u00a0(NYU) Title:\u00a0Variation and the amn\u0092t gap (joint work with David Adger, Caroline Heycock and Jennifer Smith) Time: Thursday, December 13th, 3:30pm-5pm Place:\u00a032-155 Abstract: \u00a0 This talk is concerned with \u0093the amn\u0092t gap,\u0094 which refers to the absence\u00a0of a negated form for the finite auxiliary am in most varieties\u00a0of English. Bresnan (2001) notes that while [&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-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743","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=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}