{"id":13390,"date":"2020-04-20T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:53:18","slug":"syntax-square-4-21-athulya-aravind-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/04\/20\/syntax-square-4-21-athulya-aravind-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/21 - Athulya Aravind (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Athulya Aravind (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong> Locality in Malayalam anaphor binding<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 21st, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Dravidian long-distance anaphors (LDAs) pose a locality puzzle. Though they generally show strong anti-locality in binding \u0097 they cannot be bound by a local antecedent \u0097 in select environments, this requirement seems to be relaxed, licensing what looks like local binding. Drawing primarily on data from Malayalam, I will show that this apparent exceptionality is only apparent. The relevant environments involve a periphrastic progressive construction, comprising of a light verb and a PP embedding a nominalized complement. This bifurcation of the clause means that there is no selective &#8220;anti-anti-locality&#8221; in Dravidian LDA: LDA in these languages is uniformly anti-local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Athulya Aravind (MIT) Title: Locality in Malayalam anaphor binding Time: Tuesday, April 21st, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: Dravidian long-distance anaphors (LDAs) pose a locality puzzle. Though they generally show strong anti-locality in binding \u0097 they cannot be bound by a local antecedent \u0097 in select environments, this requirement seems to be relaxed, licensing what [&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-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","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=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13400,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions\/13400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}