{"id":12547,"date":"2021-02-22T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:46:41","slug":"linglunch-2-25-david-pesetsky-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/02\/22\/linglunch-2-25-david-pesetsky-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 2\/25 - David Pesetsky (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> David Pesetsky (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Lack of ambition<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Thursday, February 25th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Zoom<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In this talk, I suggest a non-standard strategy for explaining the limited range of semantics available to constructions in which certain elements of a normal finite TP are phonologically absent. These include English AUX-drop questions (Fitzpatrick 2006) and infinitival clauses (Wurmbrand 2014), where the proposal suggests an answer to some particularly vexing questions arising from the derivational (&#8220;Exfoliation&#8221;) theory of infinitivization that I have advanced elsewhere (Pesetsky 2019\/2021). The core idea attributes apparent restrictions on the constructions themselves to restrictions on a hearer&#8217;s creativity in positing possible identities for material deleted in the speaker&#8217;s derivation (&#8220;hearer&#8221; here understood as an abstract concept, including self-monitoring by the speaker). The key principle is the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principle of Unambitious Reverse Engineering (PURE)<\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\nWhen determining the identity of unpronounced material in the course of &#8220;reverse \u00adengineering&#8221; a speaker\u0092s syntactic derivation, the language system of the hearer considers only the minimally semantically contentful possibilities compatible with the morphosyntactic environment.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, Justin M. 2006. Deletion through movement. Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory 24:399\u0096431. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11049-005-3606-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11049-005-3606-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pesetsky, David. 2019\/2021. Exfoliation: towards a derivational theory of clause size. Unpublished ms., MIT. <a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/004440\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/004440<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wurmbrand, Susi. 2014. Tense and aspect in English infinitives. Linguistic Inquiry 45:403\u0096447. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/ling_a_00161\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/ling_a_00161<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: David Pesetsky (MIT) Title: Lack of ambition Time: Thursday, February 25th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Location: Zoom Abstract: In this talk, I suggest a non-standard strategy for explaining the limited range of semantics available to constructions in which certain elements of a normal finite TP are phonologically absent. These include English AUX-drop questions (Fitzpatrick 2006) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14018,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/14018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}