{"id":15775,"date":"2023-09-11T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15775"},"modified":"2023-09-11T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-9-12-giovanni-roversi-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/09\/11\/syntax-square-9-12-giovanni-roversi-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 9\/12 - Giovanni Roversi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Giovanni Roversi (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Binding and anti-cataphora in \u00c4iwoo: domain-based restrictions on interpretation?<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, September 12th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I report some work in progress, based on ongoing fieldwork, on how Condition C works in \u00c4iwoo, an Oceanic (< Austronesian) language from the Solomon Islands. The central puzzle is that Condition C (or more generally, the mechanism that determines whether two nominals can or cannot be coreferent) shows a non-uniform profile in this language. In certain types of clauses one seems to get perfectly traditional Condition C effects, where the important factor is c-command between two nominals and not linear precedence (e.g. \u0093His_i mother loves John_i\u0094, where \u0093his\u0094 precedes \u0093John\u0094 but doesn\u0092t c-command it, and coreference is possible). In other types of clauses, however, we see a completely different profile, where the (im)possibility of coreference seems to fully disregard structural factors (c-command) and only care about linear precedence. I will suggest a hypothesis whereby there\u0092s a particular high domain in the \u00c4iwoo clause which blocks cataphora, but not otherwise. This is very much work in progress, so I welcome any brainstorming and feedback!\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Giovanni Roversi (MIT)Title: Binding and anti-cataphora in \u00c4iwoo: domain-based restrictions on interpretation?Time: Tuesday, September 12th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: I report some work in progress, based on ongoing fieldwork, on how Condition C works in \u00c4iwoo, an Oceanic (< Austronesian) language from the Solomon Islands. The central puzzle is that Condition C (or more [&hellip;]\n<\/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-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","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=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}