{"id":16315,"date":"2024-05-06T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16315"},"modified":"2024-05-06T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-5-7-charlie-yan-qmul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/05\/06\/syntax-square-5-7-charlie-yan-qmul-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 5\/7 - Charlie Yan (QMUL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Charlie Yan (QMUL)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>On the locality profile of verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, May 7th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Within Mandarin Chinese root clauses, verb doubling effects are attested in either a clause-medial or clause-initial position (Cheng 2007; Meadows and Yan 2023; a.o.). I treat this contrast as VP-fronting to a lower or higher position in the clausal spine. Crucially, I show in this talk that cross-clausal VP-fronting to the lower, clause-medial position is only possible out of a limited class of complement clauses, unlike VP-fronting to the clausal periphery. I offer an approach to such movement restrictions based on the Williams Cycle (Williams 2003, 2013; Poole 2022), and predictions about VP-fronting across multiple levels of embedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Charlie Yan (QMUL)Title: On the locality profile of verb doubling in Mandarin ChineseTime: Tuesday, May 7th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: Within Mandarin Chinese root clauses, verb doubling effects are attested in either a clause-medial or clause-initial position (Cheng 2007; Meadows and Yan 2023; a.o.). I treat this contrast as VP-fronting to a lower or [&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-16315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315","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=16315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}