{"id":15854,"date":"2023-10-02T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2023\/10\/02\/syntax-square-10-3-scope-marking-in-georgian-and-the-impossibility-of-long-distance-movement-part-2-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:28:38","slug":"syntax-square-10-3-scope-marking-in-georgian-and-the-impossibility-of-long-distance-movement-part-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/10\/02\/syntax-square-10-3-scope-marking-in-georgian-and-the-impossibility-of-long-distance-movement-part-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/3 - Scope-marking in Georgian and the impossibility of long-distance movement (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Scope-marking in Georgian, and the impossibility of long-distance movement<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 3rd, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<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'\/>\nwhat-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'\/>\nra-s?????? pikrobs??mariami, ??????[rom ??? ra-s? ????? ?&#8217;ams????\u009aota]?<br clear='none'\/>\nwhat-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 movement Time: Tuesday, October 3rd, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this work in progress, I present some observations about long-distance dependencies in Georgian. 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