{"id":14103,"date":"2021-04-26T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14103"},"modified":"2021-04-26T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-4-27-cater-chen-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/04\/26\/syntax-square-4-27-cater-chen-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/27 - Cater Chen (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Cater Chen (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Three [anti [long-distance dependency] effects in Mandarin BEI-construction<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 27th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The Mandarin BEI-construction, where BEI introduces an eventuality that is<br clear='none'\/>\npredicated of the subject of BEI, shows mixed properties in terms of A- vs. A?-<br clear='none'\/>\nmovement, similar to the English tough-construction. Compared to other types of A?-<br clear='none'\/>\ndependencies, the BEI-construction is more constrained: long-distance dependencies<br clear='none'\/>\nbetween the subject of BEI and an object gap cannot be established when the external<br clear='none'\/>\nargument of the eventuality predicate introduced by BEI is existentially closed, or<br clear='none'\/>\nwhen the subject of BEI and the object gap are separated by a finite clause boundary<br clear='none'\/>\n(Huang 1999; Ting 1998; a.o.).<\/p>\n<p>I propose that the BEI-construction involves composite A\/A?-movement followed<br clear='none'\/>\nby A-movement, similar to Longenbaugh\u0092s (2017) analysis of the tough-construction:<br clear='none'\/>\nthe mixed A\/A?-properties of the BEI-construction are the expected result of<br clear='none'\/>\ncomposite A\/A?-movement; the (derived) subject of BEI A-moves to Spec, IP without<br clear='none'\/>\nviolating the Ban on Improper (A?- after A-) Movement.<\/p>\n<p>I also propose to distinguish between compound and simple BEI-construction:<br clear='none'\/>\nIn a compound BEI-construction, BEI heads two projections; the inner BEI serves the<br clear='none'\/>\nfunction of v, while the outer BEI corresponds to passive Voice. In a simple BEI-<br clear='none'\/>\nconstruction, BEI heads only one projection, and it corresponds to passive Voice.<\/p>\n<p>I will present three arguments for the current proposal: First, when two DPs A?-<br clear='none'\/>\nmove from the complement to BEI, only the DP closer to BEI can be the subject of<br clear='none'\/>\nBEI. Secondly, in a simple BEI-construction, the case-less DP must be the subject of<br clear='none'\/>\nBEI. Lastly, only the subject of a finite clause can hyper-raise to be the subject of BEI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Cater Chen (MIT)Title: Three [anti [long-distance dependency] effects in Mandarin BEI-constructionTime: Tuesday, April 27th, 1pm - 2pmAbstract: The Mandarin BEI-construction, where BEI introduces an eventuality that is predicated of the subject of BEI, shows mixed properties in terms of A- vs. A?- movement, similar to the English tough-construction. Compared to other types of A?- [&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-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103","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=14103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}