{"id":15142,"date":"2022-11-07T06:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:51:17","slug":"lf-reading-group-11-9-anastasia-tsilia-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/11\/07\/lf-reading-group-11-9-anastasia-tsilia-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group (11\/9) - Anastasia Tsilia (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date and time<\/strong>: Wednesday 11\/02, 1-2pm
\nIn-person location<\/strong>: 32-D461
\nZoom link<\/strong>: https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/94298987190<\/p>\n

Title<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0”Quasi-ECM” constructions in Modern Greek: Evidence for semantic lowering<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

MG displays certain attitudinal constructions where an attitude verb may take\u00a0an accusative object (henceforth ACC DP<\/strong>) followed by a subjunctive CP. Kotzoglou and Papangeli (2007) dub this the \u0093quasi-ECM\u0094 construction.\u00a0The basic pattern is the following:<\/p>\n

(1)
\nI Maria theli ton Yani<\/strong> \/o Yanis [na tin aghapai].
\nThe.nom\u00a0Maria.nom\u00a0want.prs\u00a0the.acc\u00a0Yani.acc\u00a0\/the.nom\u00a0Yani.nom\u00a0[comp her.acc\u00a0love.subj].
\n`Maria wants John to only love her.\u0092<\/p>\n

Hadjivassiliou et al. (2000); Kotzoglou and\u00a0Papangeli (2007); Kotzoglou (2013, 2017) provide considerable evidence that the ACC DP is\u00a0base-generated in the matrix clause. We provide additional arguments that this is indeed the case, and we argue that these are proleptic constructions as opposed to object control?.\u00a0Contrary to what\u00a0is usually assumed in the literature, given the right context, the pro<\/em> can be in object position too:<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0Context:\u00a0Yanis is a political activist and part of an organization run by me. I want to raise awareness about<\/em>
\nthe organization and I think that getting someone arrested will give us some publicity to this end.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Thelo ton Yani [na ton silavi i astinomia].
\nWant.prs\u00a0the.acc Yani.acc [comp him.acc arrest.subj\u00a0the.nom police.nom].
\n`I want the police to arrest Yanis.’<\/p>\n

Cross-linguistically, prolepsis marks a de re<\/em> (e.g. German (Salzmann, 2017), Nez Perce (Deal,\u00a02018)) or a de re<\/em> and a third reading (e.g. Tiwa (Dawson and Deal, 2019)). We argue that in MG\u00a0de dicto<\/em> readings are also possible:<\/p>\n

(3) Context:\u00a0Little Petros is in kindergarten and he and his friends believe that green dogs exist. One day they are talking about green dogs and Petros bets that exactly three of them will show up at his party.<\/i><\/p>\n

O Petrakis theli akrivos tris prasinus skilus [na erthun sto parti].
\nThe Petros.dim\u00a0want.prs\u00a0exactly three.pl\u00a0green.acc.pl dog.acc.pl\u00a0[comp come.subj.pl in-the party].\u00a0
\n`Little Petros wants exactly three green dogs to come to the party.’<\/p>\n

This attitude report does not commit the speaker to the existence of green dogs; in Fodor’s terms (Fodor,\u00a01970), the embedded subject is read opaquely. Thus,\u00a0proleptic constructions are not always interpreted transparently,\u00a0<\/span>contrary\u00a0to what has been\u00a0assumed up to now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We provide an analysis in terms of semantic lowering, as well as argue that prolepsis in Modern Greek still has more restricted truth conditions than its non-proleptic equivalent derived from movement. Namely, there is a requirement that the DP is part of what\u00a0causes the CP to happen. So, (1) with the ACC is only felicitous if Yanis takes some kind of action\u00a0to m?ake the CP hold. ?This suggests that prolepsis is not simply a mechanism to exclude de dicto<\/em> readings, but a way to\u00a0express some marked meaning in general (which we\u00a0formalise for Modern Greek). Finally, we<\/span>\u00a0hint at\u00a0an implicational hierarchy of prolepsis,\u00a0suggesting that if a language has a de dicto<\/em> reading, then it also has a third and a de re<\/em> one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date and time: Wednesday 11\/02, 1-2pm In-person location: 32-D461 Zoom link: https:\/\/mit.zoom.us\/j\/94298987190 Title:\u00a0\u00a0”Quasi-ECM” constructions in Modern Greek: Evidence for semantic lowering Abstract: MG displays certain attitudinal constructions where an attitude verb may take\u00a0an accusative object (henceforth ACC DP) followed by a subjunctive CP. Kotzoglou and Papangeli (2007) dub this the \u0093quasi-ECM\u0094 construction.\u00a0The basic pattern is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15167,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}