{"id":17445,"date":"2025-10-06T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-10-7-janos-egressy-ucla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/06\/syntax-square-10-7-janos-egressy-ucla-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/7 - Janos Egressy (UCLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Janos Egressy (UCLA)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Size-sensitive Sequence of Tense in Hungarian<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 7th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In Sequence of Tense (SOT) Analyses (e.g. Ogihara 1995), it has been argued that past-under-past configurations (e.g. John said that Mary was pregnant) have a simultaneous reading if the embedded past head undergoes \u0093deletion\u0094 under agreement with the matrix past head: While the deletion does not affect the verb form, the reading becomes John said: \u0091Mary is pregnant\u0092. If no such deletion happens, the embedded past tense remains backshifted compared to the matrix past tense, so the reading remains John said: \u0091Mary was pregnant\u0092. Previous SOT research has claimed that the availability of this deletion rule is a parameter for entire languages, e.g. English has such a rule but Japanese does not, so the simultaneous reading is never available for Japanese clauses. This paper shows that Hungarian exhibits language-internal SOT-variation in past-under-past configurations: While speech-reporting clauses are Japanese-like, i.e. obligatorily backshifted, non-speech-reporting clauses are English-like, i.e. they have a simultaneous reading. My syntactic analysis proposes a size-difference between the clause types: speech-reporting clauses are structurally larger. Hence, the availability of deletion-under-Agree can be described as a case of Williams Cycle (Williams 2003) or size-dependent opacity in Agree (Keine 2020).<\/p>\n<p>(This talk is a practice talk for NELS.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Janos Egressy (UCLA)Title: Size-sensitive Sequence of Tense in HungarianTime: Tuesday, October 7th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In Sequence of Tense (SOT) Analyses (e.g. Ogihara 1995), it has been argued that past-under-past configurations (e.g. John said that Mary was pregnant) have a simultaneous reading if the embedded past head undergoes \u0093deletion\u0094 under agreement with the [&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-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","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=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}