{"id":16650,"date":"2024-11-18T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2024-12-28T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:59:54","slug":"syntax-square-11-19-norvin-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/11\/18\/syntax-square-11-19-norvin-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/19 \u0097 Norvin Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/norvin\/\"> Norvin Richards<\/a> (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Agreement by proxy, improper movement, and Passamaquoddy long-distance agreement <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, November 19, 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>A substantial literature (Butt 1993, 1995, Bhatt 2005, Legate 2005, Baker and Willie 2010&#8230;) entertains the idea that in some cases in which two heads in the clausal spine (call them X and Y) bear agreement morphology with a single DP (call it Z), what is happening is not that X and Y both Agree with Z, but rather than Y Agrees with Z, and X Agrees with Y. The relevant cases typically involve structures in which plausible conditions on the locality of Agree would ban Agree between X and Z, but would allow Agree between X and Y and between Y and Z.<\/p>\n<p>Legate (2005) names this phenomenon Cyclic Agreement, but since this is uncomfortably close to Cyclic Agree (Rezac 2003, etc) I will rename it Agreement by Proxy. In the talk, I&#8217;ll suggest some other kinds of phenomena that can be explained via an appeal to Agreement by Proxy, including &#8220;phase unlocking&#8221;, improper movement, and some of the conditions on long-distance agreement in Passamaquoddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Norvin Richards (MIT) Title: Agreement by proxy, improper movement, and Passamaquoddy long-distance agreement Time: Tuesday, November 19, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: A substantial literature (Butt 1993, 1995, Bhatt 2005, Legate 2005, Baker and Willie 2010&#8230;) entertains the idea that in some cases in which two heads in the clausal spine (call them [&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-16650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650","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=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16724,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions\/16724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}