{"id":17082,"date":"2025-04-21T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17082"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:35:51","slug":"syntax-square-4-22-philip-shushurin-higher-school-of-economics-moscow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/04\/21\/syntax-square-4-22-philip-shushurin-higher-school-of-economics-moscow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/22 - Philip Shushurin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Philip Shushurin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>How to do voice restructuring in a language without voice: Transitivity Concord in Chechen.<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, April 22nd, 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>The paper presents an analysis of a construction known as Transitivity Concord in Chechen. I argue that this construction presents a novel and previously undescribed type of Voice Restructuring. In the Transitivity Concord Construction, certain matrix transitive verbs impose a requirement to embed a strictly transitive structure.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Asa kniga j-esa d\u0092a-j-ol-ira<br clear='none'\/>\nI.erg book f-read prf-f-begin-rpst<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091I began reading the book.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>(2) *So\/*Asa ida d\u0092a-d-oli-ra<br clear='none'\/>\nI.abs\/I.erg run prf-n-begin-rpst<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091I began running.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>I argue that this condition is in fact a requirement on the matrix verb to contain an agreeable (Absolutive) Direct Object in the embedded clause with which it establishes a long-distance Agree relation. The embedded verb in such a construction is shown to be syntactically deficient, despite bearing agreement morphology. The construction is analyzed in terms of Pietraszko (2021), Bryant, Kovac and Wurmbrand\u0092s (2023) system whereby the embedded structure is featurally dependent on the matrix structure in terms of the ID feature. I depart from this system in assuming that (a) the embedded verb\u0092s deficiency needs not be conditional on its case assigning potential (Absolutive assignment is very low in Chechen) (b) the voice dependency might be encoded as just ?. Furthermore, I assume that v and Voice are featurally dependent in Chechen which results in automatic feature transmission between the two heads.<br clear='none'\/>\nI discuss the TCC\u0092s implications for both the theory of restructuring and infinitives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Philip Shushurin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Title: How to do voice restructuring in a language without voice: Transitivity Concord in Chechen. Time: Tuesday, April 22nd, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: The paper presents an analysis of a construction known as Transitivity Concord in Chechen. I argue that this construction presents a novel [&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-17082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082","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=17082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17085,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions\/17085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}