{"id":16832,"date":"2025-02-10T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16832"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T01:20:31","slug":"omri-tau-interdisciplinary-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/02\/10\/omri-tau-interdisciplinary-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Doron talk @ TAU Interdisciplinary Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth-year graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/omridoron.com\/\">Omri Doron<\/a> gave a talk at <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Tel Aviv University&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Colloquium on January 23rd, 2025, with the title &#8220;Revisiting pronominal copulas&#8221;. \u00a0Here is the abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Hebrew nonverbal sentences sometimes contain what looks like a pronoun between the subject and the predicate (\u0093Pron\u0094), which agrees with the subject (1). It is a part of a broader corsslinguistic pattern of particles that resemble a pronoun on the surface, but have the distribution of a copula.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(1) dana (hi)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0gvoa<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dana (Pron.3FSG) tall<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u0093Dana is tall\u0094<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u><\/u>Doron (1983) analyzes Pron as the realization of agreement features in I?, spelled out as a pronoun in the lack of a verb. I point out that this analysis is unable to account for Pron\u0092s complicated distribution and interpretative effects, and argue for an alternative analysis of Pron as a resumptive pronoun. I then show that this analysis can shed light on the interaction of Pron with genericity (Greenberg, 2002).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth-year graduate student Omri Doron gave a talk at Tel Aviv University&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Colloquium on January 23rd, 2025, with the title &#8220;Revisiting pronominal copulas&#8221;. \u00a0Here is the abstract: Hebrew nonverbal sentences sometimes contain what looks like a pronoun between the subject and the predicate (\u0093Pron\u0094), which agrees with the subject (1). It is a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16860,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions\/16860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}