{"id":11883,"date":"2019-02-25T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:24:10","slug":"ling-lunch-2-28-colin-davis-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/02\/25\/ling-lunch-2-28-colin-davis-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 2\/28 - Colin Davis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/colinpbdavis\/\">Colin Davis<\/a> (MIT Linguistics) <br><strong>Title:<\/strong>&nbsp;Why extraposition is rightward <br><strong>Time:<\/strong>&nbsp;Thursday, 2\/28, 12:30-1:50pm<br><strong>Location:<\/strong>&nbsp;32-D461 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In  this work in progress, I&#8217;ll offer an approach to some word order  puzzles about extraposition. Fox &amp; Nissenbaum (1999) proposed that  extraposition is derived by  covert movement to the right, followed by late merge (Lebeaux 1999,  a.o.) to that covert rightward position. Even if we accept that  string-vacuous movement can in some sense have linear direction, this  account does not straightforwardly apply to extraposition  from phrases that undergo overt leftward movement. One of my central  concerns will be this issue. I&#8217;ll argue that we can derive the  possibility of extraposition from overtly moved phrases as well as  covertly moved ones, without stipulating a linear direction  to covert movement, through the interaction of the following concepts.  #1: Spellout linearizes entire phases at once, and must not generate  ordering contradictions (Fox &amp; Pesetsky 2005, a.o.). #2: Late merge  can only apply to the linear edge of a phase (NIssenbaum  2000). #3. Late merge can apply even to embedded phases (Fox 2017).  Removing the hypothesis that covert movement is ordered provides insight  into why extraposition fails when its source DP is deleted by ellipsis  (Takahashi &amp; Ohtaka 2017). This account leads  to difficulty in deriving William&#8217;s Generalization (=the height of an  extraposed phrase determines the scope of its &#8220;source&#8221;), without a more  constrained notion of how extraposition is ordered, which I won&#8217;t have  time to tackle here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:&nbsp;Colin Davis (MIT Linguistics) Title:&nbsp;Why extraposition is rightward Time:&nbsp;Thursday, 2\/28, 12:30-1:50pmLocation:&nbsp;32-D461 Abstract: In this work in progress, I&#8217;ll offer an approach to some word order puzzles about extraposition. Fox &amp; Nissenbaum (1999) proposed that extraposition is derived by covert movement to the right, followed by late merge (Lebeaux 1999, a.o.) to that covert rightward position. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}