{"id":15224,"date":"2022-12-12T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T16:57:15","slug":"syntax-square-12-6-ksenia-ershova-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/12\/12\/syntax-square-12-6-ksenia-ershova-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square (12\/13) - Ksenia Ershova (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Ksenia Ershova (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Manifestations of syntactic ergativity: disassociating high absolutive syntax from the ergative extraction constraint<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, December 13, 1pm - 2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D462<strong><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/strong><br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Syntactic ergativity is broadly defined as the sensitivity of syntactic rules to the distinction between subjects of transitive verbs (= ergative) on the one hand and objects of transitive verbs and subjects of intransitive verbs (= absolutive) on the other hand. The defining property of syntactically ergative languages is taken to be the ergative extraction constraint: while absolutive arguments are accessible for extraction, A\u0092-movement of the ergative argument is ungrammatical (Deal 2016; Polinsky 2017, a.o.). A prominent analysis of syntactic ergativity involves the movement of the absolutive object to a position above the ergative agent (Aldridge 2004,2008; Coon et al. 2014,2021; Tollan and Clemens 2021, a.o.). In this talk, I argue that high absolutive syntax does not straightforwardly predict the ergative extraction constraint. Despite appearing to be a drawback of this approach, I claim that this is a desirable aspect of the theory. I support this claim with data from West Circassian, a language that displays syntactic ergativity in a range of grammatical domains but does not display a ban on ergative extraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ksenia Ershova (MIT) Title: Manifestations of syntactic ergativity: disassociating high absolutive syntax from the ergative extraction constraint Time: Tuesday, December 13, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D462 Abstract: Syntactic ergativity is broadly defined as the sensitivity of syntactic rules to the distinction between subjects of transitive verbs (= ergative) on the one hand and objects [&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-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","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=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15238,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions\/15238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}