{"id":13410,"date":"2020-04-27T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2020-04-27T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T12:57:44","slug":"morphun-4-29-rafael-abramovitz-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/04\/27\/morphun-4-29-rafael-abramovitz-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 4\/29 - Rafael Abramovitz (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Rafael Abramovitz (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Person and predication in Koryak<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, April 29th, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Linguists across theoretical persuasions have noted that person has a more limited distribution of agreement possibilities than number and gender. Baker (2008) proposes that this has a universal structural explanation: the subject of adjectival or nominal predication, he argues, does not merge directly with an adjectival or nominal head, but instead with a higher head Pred(icate). The lack of person agreement on non-verbs emerges when that structural assumption is combined with the Structural Condition on Person Agreement (SCOPA), which bans 1\/2 person agreement on a head if the bearer of those features does not merge with that head. In this paper, I present novel data from Koryak (Chukotko-Kamchatkan), which I argue to be the most plausible attested counterexample to SCOPA, as nouns (1) and adjectives (2) (among others) in predicative position do show covarying person morphology.<\/p>\n<p>(1) (??mmo) ?aw??va-j??m<br clear='none'\/>\n1SG.ABS Koryak-1SG.PRED<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091I am a Koryak.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>(2) (????i) n-?-mej?-i?i<br clear='none'\/>\n2SG.ABS ADJ-EP-big-2SG.PRED<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091You are big.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>However, I will argue that in Koryak, Pred itself bears uninterpretable phi-features, and once it has agreed with the subject of predication, these features spread to Pred\u0092s complement by concord, thus defusing a possible counterexample to Baker\u0092s theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Rafael Abramovitz (MIT) Title: Person and predication in Koryak Time: Wednesday, April 29th, 5pm - 6:30pm Abstract: Linguists across theoretical persuasions have noted that person has a more limited distribution of agreement possibilities than number and gender. Baker (2008) proposes that this has a universal structural explanation: the subject of adjectival or nominal predication, [&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-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","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=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13424,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}