{"id":15836,"date":"2023-09-04T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2023\/09\/04\/syntax-square-9-5-tanya-bondarenko-harvard-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-9-5-tanya-bondarenko-harvard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/09\/04\/syntax-square-9-5-tanya-bondarenko-harvard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 9\/5 - Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Scope-marking in Georgian, and the impossibility of long-distance movement<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, September 5th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this work in progress, I present some observations about long-distance dependencies in Georgian. Georgian is a language that lacks long-distance wh-movement, (1): wh words cannot be extracted across a finite clause boundary. To express the meaning of a long-distance question, a construction with wh scope marking is used, (2), where a wh-expression in the embedded clause co-occurs with the wh-word ra &#8220;what&#8221; in the matrix clause.<\/p>\n<p>(1) ? Long-distance wh extraction<br clear='none'\/>\n       *ra-s1?????? pikrobs??mariami,  ??????[rom ??? t1?   ?&#8217;ams??????\u009aota]?<br clear='none'\/>\n         what-ACC     thinks?      Mariam.NOM???COMP????     is.eating???  Shota.NOM<br clear='none'\/>\n         \u0091What does Mariam think that Shota is eating?\u0092<\/p>\n<p>(2) ?   Wh scope marking<br clear='none'\/>\n         ra-s??????    pikrobs??mariami,  ??????[rom ??? ra-s?   ????? ?&#8217;ams????\u009aota]?<br clear='none'\/>\n         what-ACC     thinks?      Mariam.NOM???COMP??what-ACC??is.eating??Shota.NOM<br clear='none'\/>\n         \u0091What does Mariam think that Shota is eating?\u0092<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I argue that the construction in (2) does not involve a long-distance dependency: the two wh-expressions are not part of the same movement chain. I propose that a version of the indirect dependency approach (Dayal 1994) can account for the properties of wh scope marking in Georgian: the two wh-words undergo movement in each of their respective clauses to a position between VoiceP and TP (Borise 2023), and then the embedded CP is adjoined to the matrix one. <\/p>\n<p>If this analysis is on the right track, it suggests that true long-distance dependencies are absent in Georgian, and the question is: why? At the end of the talk, I will offer some speculations I have, and solicit suggestions on where to look for the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard)Title: Scope-marking in Georgian, and the impossibility of long-distance movementTime: Tuesday, September 5th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In this work in progress, I present some observations about long-distance dependencies in Georgian. Georgian is a language that lacks long-distance wh-movement, (1): wh words cannot be extracted across a finite clause boundary. To express [&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-15836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836","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=15836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}