{"id":13342,"date":"2020-03-30T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2020-03-30T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T10:06:00","slug":"lf-reading-group-4-1-peter-grishin-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/03\/30\/lf-reading-group-4-1-peter-grishin-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 4\/1 - Peter Grishin (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Peter Grishin (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Scrapping clauses with clausal anaphors<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, April 1st, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>Zoom<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I argue that an understudied variety of clausal ellipsis in English, in which the clausal complement of a clause-embedding verb goes missing,demonstrates the existence of a null ModP anaphor (in the binding-theoretic sense), which I&#8217;ll call PROModP. I call this kind of ellipsis &#8220;scrapping&#8221; (Sentential Complement Reduction in ACD Positions). I present a close study of the properties of scrapping, demonstrating that it isn&#8217;t Null Complement Anaphora, that it&#8217;s subject to a requirement that it appear in ACD environments, that the gap contains a structurally reduced clause that maximally contains a low modality phrase, and that scraps are subject to a requirement that their antecedent c-command them at LF. I argue that analyzing the gap as containing the following structure \u0097 [Op PROModP], an operator adjoined to PROModP \u0097 is able to predict this constellation of facts. The anaphoric properties of PROModP require that it receive its denotation from a c-commanding antecedent, and the requirement that PROModP be bound by a c-commanding ModP requires that it QR from within that ModP to adjoin to it, in order to be bound, thus deriving (a weak form of) the ACD generalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Peter Grishin (MIT)Title: Scrapping clauses with clausal anaphorsTime: Wednesday, April 1st, 1pm - 2pmLocation: ZoomAbstract: I argue that an understudied variety of clausal ellipsis in English, in which the clausal complement of a clause-embedding verb goes missing,demonstrates the existence of a null ModP anaphor (in the binding-theoretic sense), which I&#8217;ll call PROModP. I call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}