{"id":16641,"date":"2024-12-02T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16641"},"modified":"2024-12-28T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:06:15","slug":"syntax-square-12-03-keely-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/12\/02\/syntax-square-12-03-keely-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/03 \u0097 Keely New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/keely.news\">Keely New<\/a> (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>On the apparent lack of multiple wh-questions in Jakarta Indonesian <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong> Tuesday, December 3, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>It has been claimed that in certain languages (e.g. Italian, Irish, and Somali), it is impossible to form questions that include more than one wh-constituent. This is surprising because under prominent semantic analyses of questions, single and multiple wh-questions are derived through similar mechanisms (as noted by Dayal, 2016 and Kotek, 2019). I argue that the lack of multiple wh-questions should not be attributed to a language parameter. Focusing on Jakarta Indonesian as a case study, I will show that (i) the impossibility of multiple wh-questions is construction-specific rather than a language-wide pattern, and (ii) we can derive the impossibility of multiple wh-questions from independently observable constraints on question formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keely New (MIT) Title: On the apparent lack of multiple wh-questions in Jakarta Indonesian Time: Tuesday, December 3, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: It has been claimed that in certain languages (e.g. Italian, Irish, and Somali), it is impossible to form questions that include more than one wh-constituent. This is surprising because under [&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-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","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=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16733,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions\/16733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}