{"id":16241,"date":"2024-04-15T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16241"},"modified":"2024-04-15T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-4-16-janayna-carvalho-ufmg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/04\/15\/syntax-square-4-16-janayna-carvalho-ufmg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/16 -  Janayna Carvalho (UFMG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>  Janayna Carvalho (UFMG)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Generic null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese and structure removal<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 16th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this presentation, I explore some sentential properties of generic null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). In particular, I look for an explanation for two of their properties: a) their restricted modal readings; b) their apparent ban on sequence of tense readings. I argue that these two disparate properties are due to the removal of part of the functional sequence of these clauses, due to a conflict between two probes \u0096 C and T \u0096 that could potentially value the external argument in these sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Janayna Carvalho (UFMG)Title: Generic null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese and structure removalTime: Tuesday, April 16th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In this presentation, I explore some sentential properties of generic null impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). In particular, I look for an explanation for two of their properties: a) their restricted modal readings; b) their [&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-16241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241","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=16241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}