{"id":13786,"date":"2020-10-19T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2020-10-18T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:45:25","slug":"syntax-square-10-20-elise-newman-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/10\/19\/syntax-square-10-20-elise-newman-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/20 - Elise Newman (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Elise Newman (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Revisiting UTAH: an informal discussion!<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 20th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Put your lexical semantics hats on and come discuss argument structure with me! Some questions I have been pondering include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do \u0093theta positions\u0094 mean in the Y-model?<\/li>\n<li>Do heads \u0093assign\u0094 theta roles in the syntax?<\/li>\n<li>What is the right division of labor between syntax\/semantics when it comes to explaining structural generalizations about arguments?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I surely won\u0092t have all the answers, but here are some readings I have found helpful for those who want to do some homework: Levin &amp; Rappaport Hovav (2005), Harley (2011), Marantz (2013), and the recent round table discussion featuring Gillian Ramchand, Heidi Harley, and Artemis Alexiadou (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1_bjHrMunWo)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Elise Newman (MIT) Title: Revisiting UTAH: an informal discussion! Time: Tuesday, October 20th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: Put your lexical semantics hats on and come discuss argument structure with me! Some questions I have been pondering include: What do \u0093theta positions\u0094 mean in the Y-model? Do heads \u0093assign\u0094 theta roles in the syntax? 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-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","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=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}