{"id":11962,"date":"2019-03-04T06:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11962"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:47:12","slug":"syntax-square-3-5-yadav-gowda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/03\/04\/syntax-square-3-5-yadav-gowda\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/5 - Yadav Gowda (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ysg\/www\/\">Yadav Gowda<\/a> (MIT)<br><strong>Title<\/strong>: Moving Clauses<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: Tuesday, March 5, 1pm-2pm<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: 32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: <br>The first part of this talk will focus on the derivation and interpretation of so-called &#8216;Comp-internal clauses&#8217; in Bengali (Bhattacharya 2001). Clauses headed by the head-initial complementizer <em>je<\/em>&nbsp;normally appear obligatorily extraposed to the right of the (normally head-final) verb:<br>(1) ami bollam [je Apar?a deri korlo]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;said&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; C Aparna late did&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I said that Aparna was late.<br>However, when an element appears in first position within the clause (henceforth the PJE, or pre-<em>je<\/em>-element), these clauses obligatorily appear to the left of the verb, in the normal object position:<br>(2) ami [Aparna je deri korlo] bollam.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;aparna&nbsp; C&nbsp; late did&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; saidI said that Aparna was late.<br>I will present previously unnoticed facts about the binding and scope behavior of Comp-internal clauses which suggest that the PJE occupies its own matrix specifier, despite the fact that it appears to move along with the rest of the clause. I will argue that this mismatch suggests that Comp-internal clauses involve clausal pied-piping driven by long scrambling of the PJE.<br>In the second part of this talk, I will consider facts which suggest that clausal scrambling in other languages (Basque, Bavarian German, Kannada) may also be amenable to an analysis in which this movement is driven by a clause-internal element, and discuss how this supports previous arguments on the immobility of CPs (Koster 1978, Stowell 1981, and many others).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yadav Gowda (MIT)Title: Moving ClausesTime: Tuesday, March 5, 1pm-2pmLocation: 32-D461 Abstract: The first part of this talk will focus on the derivation and interpretation of so-called &#8216;Comp-internal clauses&#8217; in Bengali (Bhattacharya 2001). Clauses headed by the head-initial complementizer je&nbsp;normally appear obligatorily extraposed to the right of the (normally head-final) verb:(1) ami bollam [je Apar?a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11965,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}