{"id":12089,"date":"2019-04-17T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12089"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:12:04","slug":"ling-lunch-4-18-conor-mcdonough-quinn-university-of-southern-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/04\/17\/ling-lunch-4-18-conor-mcdonough-quinn-university-of-southern-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 4\/18 - Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine)<br><strong>Title:<\/strong> Animacy, obviation, inverse, and delightful phonological subtleties: a call to look more at Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqew(Maliseet) and relatives, and helps for formal theory from endangered language pedagogy<br><strong>Time:<\/strong> Thursday, 4\/18, 12:30-1:50pm<br><strong>Location:<\/strong> 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\">Starting with core discussions of three traditionally thorny phenomena Algonquian morphosyntax:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Algonquian grammatical animate status as formal \u0093mission creep\u0094 from semantic animacy, via highly constrained analogical \u0093families\u0094 that shift over time and space, but are reliably productive for any given speaker.<\/li><li>Proximate-obviative as marking referential entailment dependency: in 3rd+3rd Goal-Theme configurations (verbal-ditransitive or nominal-possessive), the Theme cannot be proximate relative to the obviative Goal; only the reverse.  E.g. in [HER MOTHER], [MOTHER] must always be obviative.  This restriction seems tied crucially to the observation that knowing the complete reference of [MOTHER] in [HER MOTHER] entails knowing the reference of HER.<\/li><li>Inverse for 3?{1,2} configurations in Algonquian languages being only strictly required for clause-types realized morphosyntactically as possessed nominals: in them, core transitive arguments are introduced via a Goal-Theme (Possessor-Possessee) configuration, and so are subject to a Person-Case Constraint effect.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then briefly note three other features in desperate need of in-depth research: (a) head-marking for oblique (spatial, manner, temporal, etc.) arguments; (b) nominal tense; (c) standalone Secondary Objects (= morphosyntactically same as ditransitive Themes, but with no overt\/interpreted Goal argument).  Also briefly sketched are three under-researched phonetic-phonological phenomena: (a) iambic weak\/strong-schwa alternations + related rich initial\/final consonant clusters; (b) contrastive pitch-accent + final vowel deletion alternations; (c) preaspiration and gemination in a voicing-noncontrasting phonational system.  Finally, we observe how being &#8220;reduced to&#8221; minimalist, non-technical, and pragmatic-communicatively-grounded presentations of these kinds of unfamiliar linguistic phenomena\u0097namely, doing what it takes to teach them genuinely effectively to adult learners\u0097creates fertile ground for innovative rethinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A longer version of the abstract can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/yvhv7w29sjt9nmd\/CQuinn-AnimacyObviationInversePhono.pdf?dl=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Conor McDonough Quinn (University of Southern Maine)Title: Animacy, obviation, inverse, and delightful phonological subtleties: a call to look more at Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqew(Maliseet) and relatives, and helps for formal theory from endangered language pedagogyTime: Thursday, 4\/18, 12:30-1:50pmLocation: 32-D461 Abstract: Starting with core discussions of three traditionally thorny phenomena Algonquian morphosyntax: Algonquian grammatical animate status as formal [&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-12089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089","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=12089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12093,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}