{"id":14423,"date":"2021-11-08T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:20:55","slug":"syntax-square-11-9-peter-grishin-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/11\/08\/syntax-square-11-9-peter-grishin-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/9 - Peter Grishin (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Peter Grishin (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Passamaquoddy peripheral agreement agrees with the lowest DP<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, November 9th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The Algonquian verbal template has a slot traditionally termed &#8220;peripheral agreement&#8221;, as it sits at the linearly rightmost edge of the verb. In Passamaquoddy, this agreement slot has an unusual distribution: it agrees with the lowest 3rd person DP in the clause after A movement in number, animacy, and obviation. (Other Algonquian languages show different agreement patterns with peripheral agreement, most of which are less problematic than Passamaquoddy; see Xu 2020, 2021 for discussion.)<\/p>\n<p>Following Bruening (2001, 2005, 2009), I assume that the external argument c-commands the internal argument in direct configurations, the internal argument A-moves above the external argument in inverse configurations, and that in a ditransitive the external argument and goal always c-command the theme. Peripheral agreement agrees with the single argument of an intransitive, the internal argument of a direct transitive, the external argument of an inverse transitive, and the theme of a ditransitive\u0097in other words, the lowest DP in the clause after A movement. Additionally, given peripheral agreement&#8217;s position following tense, and its disappearance in clause types that are plausibly reduced in size (the subordinative), we&#8217;re urged to place it quite high in the clausal spine, e.g. C. The resulting picture: you A-move all the DPs into their requisite positions, then you merge C with the peripheral agreement probe, and then it probes down for the lowest DP, in blatant violation of standard assumptions about the locality of Agree.<\/p>\n<p>With this puzzle in place, I discuss some possible (and impossible) avenues of attack to analyze this pattern, and open things up to the audience: please help me figure out what&#8217;s going on! Do we really have to rethink everything we know about Agree and the typology of agreement, or is there another option??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Peter Grishin (MIT) Title: Passamaquoddy peripheral agreement agrees with the lowest DP Time: Tuesday, November 9th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: The Algonquian verbal template has a slot traditionally termed &#8220;peripheral agreement&#8221;, as it sits at the linearly rightmost edge of the verb. In Passamaquoddy, this agreement slot has an unusual distribution: it agrees with [&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-14423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423","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=14423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}