{"id":13093,"date":"2019-12-09T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2019-12-08T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:59:28","slug":"syntax-square-12-10-yadav-gowda-mit-and-danfeng-wu-mit-run-chen-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/12\/09\/syntax-square-12-10-yadav-gowda-mit-and-danfeng-wu-mit-run-chen-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/10 - Yadav Gowda (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT), Run Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speakers: <\/strong> Yadav Gowda (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT), Run Chen (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>LSA Practice talks: Intervention in Wolof Clitic Climbing and Superiority Effect in Albanian Multiple Wh-movement<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, December 10th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Intervention in Wolof Clitic Climbing<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Authors:<\/strong> Yadav Gowda &amp; Danfeng Wu<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Clitic movement from an embedded infinitive (\u0091clitic climbing\u0092) is a hallmark property of restructuring (Rizzi 1978 i.a.). We show data from Wolof which shows clitic climbing requires linear adjacency of verbal heads &#8212; that is, nothing can intervene linearly between the embedded verb and the matrix verb. The relationship of such \u0091verb clustering\u0092 phenomena to restructuring, and how verb clusters arise, is still the subject of debate (Wurmbrand 2017). Our data contributes to this debate, showing a) in a language which doesn\u0092t exhibit other \u0091verb clustering\u0092 phenomena (e.g. reordering verbal heads, morphology sharing), linear adjacency is required for restructuring; b) contrary to expectations, linear adjacency in Wolof restructuring constructions doesn\u0092t arise through complex head-formation (pace Haider 2003, supporting Wurmbrand 2007). Furthermore, we argue that both this simple linear adjacency requirement and `verb clustering&#8217; phenomena are driven by Selectional Contiguity (Richards 2016).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Superiority Effect in Albanian Multiple Wh-movement<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Run Chen<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> This study examines the order of wh-phrases in Albanian multiple wh-questions. Despite SVO and OVS orders, I argue that Albanian wh-movement follows the Superiority Effect, through a mechanism generating a rightmost highest specifier. OVS order constructions are subject to Haplology Effect and Word Order Freezing, showing the presence of a multiple wh-fronting step in the derivation. The study highlights a general observation of opacity and cross-linguistic wh-question environment. Linear order does not reveal hierarchical structure, as a typically leftmost wh-phrase is pronounced rightmost. This rightward wh-movement analysis may explain future findings of languages claimed to not follow the Superiority Effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Yadav Gowda (MIT) and Danfeng Wu (MIT), Run Chen (MIT) Title: LSA Practice talks: Intervention in Wolof Clitic Climbing and Superiority Effect in Albanian Multiple Wh-movement Time: Tuesday, December 10th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Title: Intervention in Wolof Clitic Climbing Authors: Yadav Gowda &amp; Danfeng Wu Abstract: Clitic movement from an embedded infinitive [&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-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","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=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}