{"id":17055,"date":"2025-04-14T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2025-04-13T22:54:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:54:45","slug":"syntax-square-4-15-zhouyi-sun-and-oddur-snorrason-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/04\/14\/syntax-square-4-15-zhouyi-sun-and-oddur-snorrason-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/15 -  Oddur Snorrason (QMUL) and Zhouyi Sun (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>Oddur Snorrason (QMUL) and Zhouyi Sun (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>How are Icelandic degree questions moving many phrases<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 15th, 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>Icelandic, despite being a language which does not permit Left Branch Extraction in general, allows an exceptional way of forming degree questions in addition to the standard pied-piping structure, as shown in (1):<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. Hva\u00f0\u00a0 ertu\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 __ gamall?<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0what\u00a0 are.you\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0old<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u0091How old are you?\u0092<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 b. Hva\u00f0 skrifa\u00f0ir \u00fe\u00fa\u00a0 \u00a0 __ langa bo?k?<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 what\u00a0 wrote\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 you\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0long book<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u0091How long a book did you write?\u0092<\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, evidence from parasitic gaps and reflexive licensing suggests that the apparently in-situ containing phrase is undergoing movement as well.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, we sketch a derivation in which both the degree operator and its containing phrase move simultaneously, drawing a comparison with Fox and Nissenbaum\u0092s (2018) proposal for English pied-piping. We suggest that the difference between the English and Icelandic patterns can be reduced to distinct PF conditions. Finally, we show why alternative approaches, such as direct subextraction, remnant movement (with the left branch as a remnant), and covert pied-piping with distributed deletion, fail to account for the Icelandic data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:Oddur Snorrason (QMUL) and Zhouyi Sun (MIT) Title: How are Icelandic degree questions moving many phrases Time: Tuesday, April 15th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Icelandic, despite being a language which does not permit Left Branch Extraction in general, allows an exceptional way of forming degree questions in addition to the standard pied-piping structure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","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=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}