{"id":13790,"date":"2020-10-19T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13790"},"modified":"2020-10-18T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T20:09:21","slug":"linglunch-10-22-stanislao-zompi-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/10\/19\/linglunch-10-22-stanislao-zompi-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 10\/22 - Stanislao Zomp\u00ec (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Stanislao Zomp\u00ec (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Distinctness effects in English nominals<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, October 22nd, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this paper, I focus on several purported idiosyncrasies of English nominals, such as the contrasts between <em>this tall a person<\/em> and *<em>a this tall person<\/em>, between <em>any taller a person<\/em> and *<em>an any taller person<\/em>, and between <em>what color car<\/em> and *<em>a what color car<\/em> \/ *<em>what color a car<\/em>. I argue that all these contrasts follow straightforwardly from Richards\u0092 (2010) Distinctness condition, banning any Spellout domain in which two instances of the same functional category stand in an asymmetric c-command relation. I also suggest that, under slightly less trivial assumptions about the timing of Distinctness repairs, a Distinctness-based account might be extended to the contrasts between <em>how many color cars<\/em> and *<em>how many colors cars<\/em> and between <em>a three-year-old kid<\/em> and *<em>a three years old kid<\/em>. Along the way, I also use these case studies to shed light back on the underpinnings of Distinctness and the mechanics of its repairs, arguing, in particular, that Distinctness violations must be repaired within the smallest maximal projection in which they occur, and that Distinctness-enforcing movement must, whenever possible, take precedence over Distinctness-enforcing deletion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Stanislao Zomp\u00ec (MIT) Title: Distinctness effects in English nominals Time: Thursday, October 22nd, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Abstract: In this paper, I focus on several purported idiosyncrasies of English nominals, such as the contrasts between this tall a person and *a this tall person, between any taller a person and *an any taller person, and [&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-13790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790","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=13790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13792,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions\/13792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}