{"id":16135,"date":"2024-03-11T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:02:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:02:05","slug":"roversi-published-in-nllt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/03\/11\/roversi-published-in-nllt\/","title":{"rendered":"Roversi accepted for publication at NLLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More great news about fourth-year graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/giovanniroversi.com\/\">Giovanni Roversi<\/a>: Giovanni&#8217;s paper &#8220;Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from \u00c4iwoo&#8221; has been accepted for publication at Natural Language and Linguistic Theory! In the paper, Giovanni observes that the \u00c4iwoo language doesn\u0092t contain possessives like \u0093my\u0094 or \u0093her(s)\u0094. Instead, all it has is a possessive verb, so that \u0093my dog\u0094 is more literally something like \u0093the dog that I have\u0094, and \u0093his sister\u0094 is \u0093the one he has as a sister\u0094. This empirical fact ends up having repercussions for our theories of syntactic categories: something that we thought was usually nominal can actually be verbal as well. Congratulations, Giovanni!<\/p>\n<p>You can read the pre-print on lingbuzz here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/006565.\">https:\/\/ling.auf.net\/lingbuzz\/006565.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how we recently congratulated Giovanni in the department:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-22-at-10.25.34.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-16141\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-02-22-at-10.25.34.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More great news about fourth-year graduate student Giovanni Roversi: Giovanni&#8217;s paper &#8220;Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from \u00c4iwoo&#8221; has been accepted for publication at Natural Language and Linguistic Theory! In the paper, Giovanni observes that the \u00c4iwoo language doesn\u0092t contain possessives like \u0093my\u0094 or \u0093her(s)\u0094. Instead, all it has is a possessive verb, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16163,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16135\/revisions\/16163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}