{"id":13884,"date":"2020-11-16T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13884"},"modified":"2021-04-24T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:51:52","slug":"syntax-square-11-17-cater-chen-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/11\/16\/syntax-square-11-17-cater-chen-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/17 - Cater Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Cater Chen (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>The tough path to passive<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, November 17th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The\u00a0Mandarin BEI-construction, where BEI introduces an eventuality proposition that the subject of BEI undergoes, is known to show mixed A-\/A?-behavior similar to the English tough-construction. An analysis of the BEI-construction that has been widely accepted involves base-generation of the subject of BEI and A?-movement of a null operator to the left periphery of the eventuality complement, akin to Chomsky\u0092s treatment of the tough-construction. In this talk, I argue that a different derivation of the BEI-construction must be possible (and the default), due to its distinct behaviour when interacting with IP-external topicalization (that shows A?-behavior under the standard diagnostics) and IP-internal topicalization and focalization (that shows mixed A-\/A?-behavior), which have also been proposed to involve null operator movement. Specifically, I use the subject-oriented long-distance reflexive ziji as a diagnostic for subjecthood to reveal that two moved objects must conform to a nesting path when BEI-construction and IP-external topicalization are involved, but they must conform to a crossing path when BEI-construction and IP-internal topicalization\/focalization are involved. By comparison, when two objects undergo IP-external topicalization and\/or IP-internal topicalization\/focalization, no systematic nesting\/crossing asymmetry is found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Cater Chen (MIT) Title: The tough path to passive Time: Tuesday, November 17th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: The\u00a0Mandarin BEI-construction, where BEI introduces an eventuality proposition that the subject of BEI undergoes, is known to show mixed A-\/A?-behavior similar to the English tough-construction. An analysis of the BEI-construction that has been widely accepted involves base-generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884","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=13884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13884\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}