{"id":15511,"date":"2023-04-10T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2023\/04\/10\/linglunch-4-13-will-oxford-mit-university-of-manitoba-2\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:46:38","slug":"linglunch-4-13-will-oxford-mit-university-of-manitoba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/04\/10\/linglunch-4-13-will-oxford-mit-university-of-manitoba-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 4\/13 - Will Oxford (MIT, University of Manitoba)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Will Oxford (MIT, University of Manitoba)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Contrastive, obligatory, and spurious voice<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, April 13th, 12:30pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Algonquian languages have a system of direct-inverse marking that is conditioned by a person hierarchy: 1\/2 &gt; 3 &gt; 3? &gt; 3? (where 3? and 3? represent obviative and &#8220;further obviative&#8221; third persons). Since a multi-level hierarchy such as this cannot be captured by a single feature, the apparent need to account for such hierarchies has led to some creative proposals about what syntax can do. I will argue that the Algonquian person hierarchy is in fact an illusion created by the use of marked voice morphology under three different conditions, which I refer to as &#8220;contrastive voice&#8221;, &#8220;obligatory voice&#8221;, and &#8220;spurious voice&#8221;. Each condition is responsible for one of the three rankings that make up the apparent hierarchy: the 3? &gt; 3? ranking reflects contrastive voice, the 3 &gt; 3? ranking reflects obligatory voice, and the 1\/2 &gt; 3 ranking reflects spurious voice. I will show how this dissolution of the hierarchy improves our understanding of the data and explore its implications for formal models of voice and agreement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Will Oxford (MIT, University of Manitoba) Title: Contrastive, obligatory, and spurious voice Time: Thursday, April 13th, 12:30pm - 2pm Abstract: Algonquian languages have a system of direct-inverse marking that is conditioned by a person hierarchy: 1\/2 &gt; 3 &gt; 3? &gt; 3? (where 3? and 3? represent obviative and &#8220;further obviative&#8221; third persons). Since [&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-15511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511","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=15511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15514,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions\/15514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}