{"id":14383,"date":"2021-10-25T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14383"},"modified":"2021-10-24T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T22:03:31","slug":"syntax-square-10-26-giovanni-roversi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/10\/25\/syntax-square-10-26-giovanni-roversi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/26 - Giovanni Roversi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Giovanni Roversi (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Possessives in \u00c4iwoo as relative clauses<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 26th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I will present preliminary work on possessive structures in \u00c4iwoo (Oceanic; Solomon Islands). I will argue that a possessive construction like \u0093my dogs\u0094 really underlyingly is a relative clause from which the theme is being extracted, i.e. \u0093the dogs [such that] I have (them)\u0094. I will present converging evidence from agreement morphology, voice morphology, and syntax and word order facts, and I will argue that a relative clause-based analysis is able to both account for and capture a few facts\/generalizations that would otherwise remain unexplained.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Giovanni Roversi (MIT) Title: Possessives in \u00c4iwoo as relative clauses Time: Tuesday, October 26th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: I will present preliminary work on possessive structures in \u00c4iwoo (Oceanic; Solomon Islands). I will argue that a possessive construction like \u0093my dogs\u0094 really underlyingly is a relative clause from which the theme is being extracted, [&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-14383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383","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=14383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14385,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}