{"id":14532,"date":"2022-02-22T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14532"},"modified":"2022-02-21T02:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:47:31","slug":"morphun-2-23-peter-grishin-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/02\/22\/morphun-2-23-peter-grishin-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 2\/23 - Peter Grishin (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Peter Grishin (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Omnivorous agreement for third person in Algonquian<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, February 23rd, 5pm - 6:30pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>A common view is that third person is underspecified (Harley and Ritter 2002, a.m.o.): first and second person have features that third person doesn&#8217;t (e.g. [PART]), but third person doesn&#8217;t have any features that first and second lack. This kind of featural representation beautifully captures the default nature of third person: for instance, things like expletives and default agreement are invariably third person in language after language after language.<\/p>\n<p>I want to show that, unfortunately, this view is untenable (see also Nevins 2007). Third person must have a feature that first and second person lack, because there is omnivorous agreement for third person. In Menominee, Innu-aim\u00fbn, and Plains Cree, the peripheral agreement suffix (standardly analyzed as a probe in C; Halle and Marantz 1993, Branigan and MacKenzie 1999, a.o.) shows the following pattern: it always agrees with the highest accessible third person DP, skipping over first and second persons. In fact, it doesn&#8217;t ever agree with first or second person DPs at all. In order to capture this behavior, the probe in C needs to be relativized to a feature that third persons have but first and second persons lack.<\/p>\n<p>What should this feature be? I want to have a discussion with the audience about the ramifications this has for our feature theory. Do we just want to add an extra privative feature [3] to the standard set of privative features [PART, AUTH, ADDR]? Or do we want binary features, with third persons specified [\u0096PART]? Additionally, if we have third person features, how do we capture the defaultness of third person crosslinguistically? I am not an expert here\u0097y&#8217;all&#8217;s input is warmly requested. Let&#8217;s think through these issues together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Peter Grishin (MIT) Title: Omnivorous agreement for third person in Algonquian Time: Wednesday, February 23rd, 5pm - 6:30pm Abstract: A common view is that third person is underspecified (Harley and Ritter 2002, a.m.o.): first and second person have features that third person doesn&#8217;t (e.g. [PART]), but third person doesn&#8217;t have any features that first [&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-14532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532","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=14532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14534,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions\/14534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}