{"id":13159,"date":"2020-02-03T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2020-02-02T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T21:09:58","slug":"syntax-square-2-4-stanislao-zompi-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/02\/03\/syntax-square-2-4-stanislao-zompi-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 2\/4 - Stanislao Zompi&#8217; (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Stanislao Zompi&#8217; (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>On some Distinctness effects in the English DP<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, February 4th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this talk, I focus on several apparently arbitrary quirks of English nominal constructions, such as the contrasts between <em>this tall a person<\/em> and *<em>a this tall person<\/em>, between <em>any taller a person<\/em> and *<em>an any taller person<\/em>, and between <em>what color car<\/em> and *<em>a what color car<\/em> \/ *<em>what color a car<\/em>. I argue that all these contrasts follow straightforwardly from Richards\u0092 (2010) Distinctness condition, banning any Spell-Out domain in which two nodes of the same type are in an asymmetric c-command relation. I also suggest that, under slightly less trivial assumptions, the Distinctness-based account might also be extended to the contrast between <em>a three year old kid<\/em> and *<em>a three years old kid<\/em>. I then conclude with a few more speculative remarks building toward a general theory of Distinctness repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Stanislao Zompi&#8217; (MIT) Title: On some Distinctness effects in the English DP Time: Tuesday, February 4th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I focus on several apparently arbitrary quirks of English nominal constructions, such as the contrasts between this tall a person and *a this tall person, between any taller a [&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-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","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=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13162,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}