{"id":16396,"date":"2024-09-09T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16396"},"modified":"2024-09-09T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T10:02:00","slug":"linglunch-9-12-adam-przepiorkowski-university-of-warsaw-polish-academy-of-sciences-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/09\/09\/linglunch-9-12-adam-przepiorkowski-university-of-warsaw-polish-academy-of-sciences-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 9\/12 - Adam Przepiorkowski  (University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Adam Przepiorkowski  (University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Towards a Minimalist Theory of Coordination<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 12th, 12:30pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>To say that linguists do not agree on the syntactic structure of coordination is to say very little.   Are phrases such as <i>Lisa and Bart<\/i> endocentric or exocentric?  If they are endocentric, are they headed by one of the conjuncts (e.g., <i>Lisa<\/i>), or by the conjunction (e.g., <i>and<\/i>)?  If they are headed by the conjunction (Conj), is their category ConjP?  Or is it perhaps the case that the conjunction takes over some of the features of \u0096 \u0093agrees with\u0094 \u0096 one of the conjuncts, so that <i>Lisa and Bart<\/i> is effectively an NP rather than a ConjP?  Each of these options is implemented in a number of linguistic analyses.<\/p>\n<p>Existing accounts often ignore \u0096 or try to explain away \u0096 coordination of unlikes: unlike categories (e.g., <i>Bart is <u>a rascal and proud of it<\/u><\/i>), unlike cases (in languages such as Polish), and unlike grammatical functions (e.g., <i><u>What and when<\/u> to eat to stay healthy?<\/i>).  In this talk, I&#8217;ll argue that direct coordination of unlikes is real and that it provides arguments for the essentially exocentric nature of coordination.  I&#8217;ll also recall arguments for the flat structure of n-ary coordinations, such as <i>Lisa, Bart, and Maggie.<\/i>  Taken together, these aspects of coordination provide evidence for the existence of a general \u0096 not just binary \u0096 SetMerge operation in language.  I&#8217;ll offer some initial thoughts on the nature of this operation, to be more fully developed during my stay at MIT in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Adam Przepiorkowski (University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, MIT)Title: Towards a Minimalist Theory of CoordinationTime: Thursday, September 12th, 12:30pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: To say that linguists do not agree on the syntactic structure of coordination is to say very little. Are phrases such as Lisa and Bart endocentric or exocentric? If they are [&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-16396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396","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=16396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}