{"id":14549,"date":"2022-02-28T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2022-02-28T00:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:32:46","slug":"linglunch-3-3-emily-drummond-uc-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/02\/28\/linglunch-3-3-emily-drummond-uc-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 3\/3 \u0096 Emily Drummond (UC Berkeley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Emily Drummond (UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday March 3, 12:30-1:50pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461, <a href=\"https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/97228947368\">https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/97228947368<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Syntactic ergativity in Nukuoro<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The typology of ergative systems is constrained in several well-known ways, including i) Dixon&#8217;s (1994) generalization that no language is syntactically ergative without being morphologically ergative; and ii) Mahajan&#8217;s (1994, 1997) generalization that no ergative language has SVO word order. Based on primary fieldwork, I show that Nukuoro (Polynesian Outlier; Micronesia) is a counterexample to both of these generalizations, showing a pattern of syntactic ergativity without morphological ergativity in addition to having basic SVO word order. Despite this unusual cluster of properties, I argue that the Nukuoro extraction restriction can be explained using a familiar mechanism, namely systematic object inversion for nominal licensing (e.g., Coon et al. 2014; Ershova 2019). To account for Dixon&#8217;s generalization, I propose that ergative extraction restrictions are sensitive to\u00a0<i>abstract\u00a0<\/i>ergative Case, both in Nukuoro and cross-linguistically, as predicted by nearly all going analyses of such restrictions (Deal 2016, Polinsky 2017). Furthermore, I suggest that Nukuoro pre-verbal subjects are base-generated in the left periphery and control an empty category in Spec,<i>v<\/i>P, making SVO word order possible despite a restriction on ergative extraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Emily Drummond (UC Berkeley) Date and time: Thursday March 3, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461, https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/97228947368 Title:\u00a0Syntactic ergativity in Nukuoro Abstract: The typology of ergative systems is constrained in several well-known ways, including i) Dixon&#8217;s (1994) generalization that no language is syntactically ergative without being morphologically ergative; and ii) Mahajan&#8217;s (1994, 1997) generalization that no ergative [&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-14549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549","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=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}