{"id":15963,"date":"2023-11-13T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2023-11-13T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-11-14-zachary-satoshi-feldcamp-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/11\/13\/syntax-square-11-14-zachary-satoshi-feldcamp-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/14 - Zachary Satoshi Feldcamp (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Zachary Satoshi Feldcamp (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Paradoxical A-movement locality in locative inversion<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, November 14th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Locative inversion has a locality paradox. It involves movement of PP over the would-be DP subject, and is restricted in non-finite clauses, like topics (Stowell 1981). Yet inversion only occurs when DP is in an exceptional rightward position (Doggett 2004), and otherwise adheres to A-movement locality conditions. In particular, I show that locative inversion cannot be formed via subextraction from DP, unlike PP topicalization. <\/p>\n<p>I present an analysis that allows XP A-bar movement to exhibit A-movement locality. First, finite T has a disjunctive A-\/A-bar probe. This allows XP with A-bar features to move to spec,TP, but only if there is no closer DP. We gain a new understanding of Barss\u0092 generalization: reconstruction of DP into an XP predicate that undergoes A-bar remnant movement is impossible because DP could not have raised out of XP, XP being a closer goal to the disjunctive probe on T than DP.<\/p>\n<p>Second, locality is based not on c-command, but on D-precedence: G D-precedes K iff G precedes K or G irreflexively dominates K. This allows XP with phi- or A-bar features to move to spec,TP over a c-commanding DP only when DP is linearized to the right of the position from which XP moves. I show that a key prediction is borne out: in passive constructions, rightward movement of the DP internal argument demotes DP and promotes the PP dative argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Zachary Satoshi Feldcamp (MIT)Title: Paradoxical A-movement locality in locative inversionTime: Tuesday, November 14th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: Locative inversion has a locality paradox. It involves movement of PP over the would-be DP subject, and is restricted in non-finite clauses, like topics (Stowell 1981). Yet inversion only occurs when DP is in an exceptional rightward [&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-15963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963","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=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}