{"id":16988,"date":"2025-03-31T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:32:51","slug":"syntax-square-4-1-adam-przepiorkowski-warsaw-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/03\/31\/syntax-square-4-1-adam-przepiorkowski-warsaw-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/1 - Adam Przepi\u00f3rkowski (Warsaw\/MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/zil.ipipan.waw.pl\/AdamPrzepiorkowski\">Adam Przepi\u00f3rkowski<\/a> (Warsaw\/MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>On the origin of cases<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 1st, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Do grammatical cases exist, or are they just an epiphenomenon, a perceived result of flagging an NP with an additional category (Pesetsky and Torrego 2001, Pesetsky 2013) or with an additional set of ? features (Clem and Deal 2024)? If they exist, what is their origin on NPs? In this talk I&#8217;ll argue that cases do exist but may sometimes originate from within NPs, rather than being assigned externally. I will in particular propose that this explains the long-standing puzzle of the source of accusative on numeral subjects in Polish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Adam Przepi\u00f3rkowski (Warsaw\/MIT) Title: On the origin of cases Time: Tuesday, April 1st, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Do grammatical cases exist, or are they just an epiphenomenon, a perceived result of flagging an NP with an additional category (Pesetsky and Torrego 2001, Pesetsky 2013) or with an additional set of ? features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","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=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17017,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions\/17017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}