{"id":1599,"date":"2010-05-10T05:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:04:28","slug":"syntax-square-511-mitcho-erlewine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/05\/10\/syntax-square-511-mitcho-erlewine\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 5\/11: Mitcho Erlewine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the last Syntax Square of the semester* on Tuesday, 1-2PM.  <b>Mitcho Erlewine<\/b> will present &#8220;Independent Dependency and the Mandarin b? Comparative.&#8221;<BR><\/p>\n<p>SPEAKER: Mitcho Erlewine<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTIME: Tuesday, 5\/11, 1-2PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPLACE: 32-D461<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTITLE: Independent Dependency and the Mandarin b? Comparative<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most recent analyses of the Mandarin b? comparative have posited a syntax with only one copy of the predicate in the derivation (Xiang 2003, Erlewine 2007, Lin 2009). In this talk I will argue that this assumption cannot explain a range of comparative data. I refer to this new hypothesis \u0097 that the Mandarin comparative must have two copies of the predicate, one for each of the compared items \u0097 as Independent Dependency. We will also touch on the phenomena of internal argument comparison with a restricted distribution that no theory on the market can currently account for. I will then hone in on two analyses \u0097 an ellipsis approach and a multidominance approach \u0097 which are compatible with Independent Dependency and show that they also give a natural account for the internal argument comparatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Stay tuned for Syntax Square: Summer Edition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the last Syntax Square of the semester* on Tuesday, 1-2PM. Mitcho Erlewine will present &#8220;Independent Dependency and the Mandarin b? Comparative.&#8221; SPEAKER: Mitcho Erlewine TIME: Tuesday, 5\/11, 1-2PM PLACE: 32-D461 TITLE: Independent Dependency and the Mandarin b? Comparative Most recent analyses of the Mandarin b? comparative have posited a syntax with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}