{"id":16180,"date":"2024-03-18T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16180"},"modified":"2024-03-17T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:55:58","slug":"syntax-square-3-19-keely-new-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/03\/18\/syntax-square-3-19-keely-new-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/19 - Keely New (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Keely New (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>There&#8217;s no deletion in <em>meN<\/em>-deletion<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, March 19th, 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 Indonesian\/Malay, there is an optional verbal prefix <em>meN-<\/em> which is widely taken to be the subject voice marker since it correlates with subject voice SVO word order, and when it is present, only the subject may be A\u0092-extracted. In object voice OSV word order, <em>meN-<\/em> is obligatorily absent, and only the object may be A\u0092-extracted. The well-known &#8220;<em>meN<\/em>-deletion&#8221; generalisation is, therefore, that movement of the object over the verb in Indonesian\/Malay results in deletion of meN (Saddy 1991, Fortin 2006, Aldridge 2008, Cole et al. 2008, Sato 2012, Georgi 2014 among others). Under such a perspective, the optional absence of <em>meN-<\/em> in subject voice is derived from a separate process from the obligatory absence of meN in object voice. Most analyses remain silent on the optionality of meN in subject voice. In this talk, I argue against a view where \u0093<em>meN<\/em>-deletion\u0094 is triggered by movement of a DP across the verb. Drawing from data in Jakartan Indonesian, I propose that the choice between flavours of functional Voice\/v head is one-to-one with the overt presence\/absence of <em>meN-<\/em> prefix on the verb. In doing so, I argue that word order in Indonesian\/Malay is but an epiphenomenal correlate of voice in the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keely New (MIT) Title: There&#8217;s no deletion in meN-deletion Time: Tuesday, March 19th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In Indonesian\/Malay, there is an optional verbal prefix meN- which is widely taken to be the subject voice marker since it correlates with subject voice SVO word order, and when it is present, only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180","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=16180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}