{"id":13068,"date":"2019-12-02T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2019-12-02T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-12-3-suzana-fong-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/12\/02\/syntax-square-12-3-suzana-fong-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/3 - Suzana Fong (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Suzana Fong (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>The syntactic distribution of bare nominals in Wolof<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, December 3rd, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this research in progress, I try to analyze the positions where a bare nominal (BN) in Wolof (Niger-Congo) can or cannot occur. An example of BN in the object position of a transitive verb can be found in (1).<\/p>\n<p>(1) Roxaya jang-na     xibaar.<br clear='none'\/>\n    Roxaya read-NA.3SG newspaper<br clear='none'\/>\n    \u0091Roxaya read a newspaper.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>So far, the following generalizations have emerged:<\/p>\n<p>(2) i.   A BN can be the object of a transitive verb, but it has to be adjacent to that verb.<br clear='none'\/>\n    ii.  There are clauses where another lower argument can be introduced, namely, a causee, an applied argument, or a dative argument. In that case, a BN can be the theme argument, but it no longer obeys the aforementioned adjacency condition.<br clear='none'\/>\n    iii. BNs cannot be the other lower argument (i.e. causee, anapplied argument, or a dative argument), irrespective of adjacency with the verb.<br clear='none'\/>\n    iv.  BNs cannot be the subject of a finite clause.<br clear='none'\/>\n    v.   BNs can be the subject of a nonfinite clause (more precisely, a bare perceptual complement). vi. BNs can be focused\/clefted.<br clear='none'\/>\n    vi.  A BN direct object that is modified by a relative clause can bleed the adjacency requirement. However it still cannot be the subject of a finite clause.<\/p>\n<p>(2-ii) and (2-vi) are strikingly similar to a pattern that Branan (to appear) analyzes in Kikuyu. This presentation will be an exercise in applying Branan\u0092s (to appear) proposal to Wolof BNs. I will introduced auxiliary ingredients as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Suzana Fong (MIT)Title: The syntactic distribution of bare nominals in WolofTime: Tuesday, December 3rd, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In this research in progress, I try to analyze the positions where a bare nominal (BN) in Wolof (Niger-Congo) can or cannot occur. An example of BN in the object position of a transitive verb can [&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-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068","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=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}