{"id":13492,"date":"2020-06-15T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T22:21:39","slug":"summer-talk-series-6-18-suzana-fong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/06\/15\/summer-talk-series-6-18-suzana-fong\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Talk Series 6\/18 - Suzana Fong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: Suzana Fong (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: <em>The A\/? Distinction as an Epiphenomenon<\/em>\u00a0(Safir 2019)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, June 18th, 12:30pm - 2pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8221;This article demonstrates that the A\/? distinction is an epiphenomenon that emerges from independently necessary properties of Merge and the interpretive components. A true explanation of the A\/? distinction requires that the distinction between the two classes of structures must emerge from a conspiracy of independently motivated principles and that the distinction should explain why the contrasts between A- and ?-constructions are precisely the ones they are. I argue that certain moved constituents must be structurally altered on the way to their landing sites; otherwise, they will interfere with Case and agreement relations. I propose that an optional instance of Merge, late attachment of a prepositional head to the moved DP, \u0093insulates\u0094 that DP from Case and agreement, but has consequences for what an insulated DP can antecede and\/or license. Insulation is optional, but limited by independently motivated interface requirements that determine its distribution. The distribution of insulation explains why A- and ?-structures differ in just the ways they do and not in other ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download:<\/strong><br clear='none'\/><a id=\"ow345\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/ling_a_00305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/ling_a_00305<\/a>. <br clear='none'\/> Pre-publication draft:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/002798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/002798.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Suzana Fong (MIT) Title: The A\/? Distinction as an Epiphenomenon\u00a0(Safir 2019) Time: Thursday, June 18th, 12:30pm - 2pm Abstract:\u00a0&#8221;This article demonstrates that the A\/? distinction is an epiphenomenon that emerges from independently necessary properties of Merge and the interpretive components. A true explanation of the A\/? distinction requires that the distinction between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}