{"id":16558,"date":"2024-10-21T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16558"},"modified":"2024-12-28T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:35:39","slug":"syntax-square-10-22-yiannis-katochoritis-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/10\/21\/syntax-square-10-22-yiannis-katochoritis-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/22 -  Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 22, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Austronesian Malagasy and Nilotic Dinka Bor share non-trivial parallels: (i) an Austronesian voice\/pivot system, where one (any) DP argument of the clause is promoted to a syntactically and discourse-wise prominent pivot position; (ii) clausebound promotion to pivot exhibits core properties of A-movement; (iii) promotion to pivot may be long-distance, so that a matrix pivot is thematically linked to an embedded gap; (iv) long-distance pivot movement proceeds via Phase Unlocking.<\/p>\n<p>Based on fieldwork in Malagasy, I present two empirical findings: (i) The Malagasy-Dinka parallelism breaks down in long-distance pivot movement: in Dinka it retains its A-properties, whereas in Malagasy it suddenly only exhibits core A\u0092-properties relative to arguments of the matrix clause; (ii) In Malagasy, embedded CP complements that either become the matrix pivot themselves or allow their own pivot to be extracted to the matrix clause, must first undergo (covert) A-movement to the matrix pivot position.<\/p>\n<p>To explain their difference, I make the two following proposals: (i) Dinka and Malagasy differ in the structural height of Phase Unlocking: it happens by matrix v in Dinka, but by matrix C in Malagasy; (ii) their difference in the locus of Phase Unlocking is a conspiracy of three factors: (1) head V-movement in Dinka vs. phrasal roll-up VP-movement resulting in smuggling of the theme pivot in Malagasy; (2) different \u0092alignment\u0092, contingent on the order of Agree and Merge at the v\/Voice cycle: ACC-like in Dinka, split-ERG-like in Malagasy; (iii) Dinka\u0092s composite pivot probe is not sensitive to partial A-intervention, whereas Malagasy\u0092s is.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis has several implications: (i) the Dinka pivot is a clausal topic with A-properties, dissociated from subjecthood, whereas the Malagasy pivot is both a topic and surface subject; (ii) Phase Unlocking may exceptionally undo the scope-island status of CPs for (covert) QR, allowing cross-clausal inverse scope; (iii) Phase Unlocking is not an \u0091altruistic\u0092 primitive of the grammar, but only occurs if the unlocking Agree operation is independently available locally: unlike Dinka, Malagasy v\/Voice does not unlock the CP complement phase because it never gets the chance to directly Agree-interact with the internal argument during the derivation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT) Title: Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka Time: Tuesday, October 22, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Austronesian Malagasy and Nilotic Dinka Bor share non-trivial parallels: (i) an Austronesian voice\/pivot system, where one (any) DP argument of the clause is promoted to a syntactically and discourse-wise prominent pivot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16559,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions\/16559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}