{"id":17524,"date":"2025-10-27T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-10-28-vsevolod-masliukov-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/27\/syntax-square-10-28-vsevolod-masliukov-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/28 - Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Participial Complementation in Russian<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, October 28th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this talk I will present a syntactic analysis of Russian sentences such as (1), which feature participles marked with the so-called \u0091Predicate instrumental case\u0092 (Bailyn 2001). I will argue that these participial clauses are arguments with a PredP (small clause structure, Bowers 1993 et seq.) built on top, whose subject is raised to the structural case licensing position in the matrix clause. I will also compare the properties of these constructions with participles used as adnominal adjuncts, which always require case matching, (2) and finite complements of the same class of verbs (3).<\/p>\n<p>(1) Ona nikogda ne vide-l-a Ma\u009a-u pla?-u\u009a?-ej.<br clear='none'\/>\nshe never NEG see-PST-F.SG M.-ACC cry-PTCP.IPFV-F.SG.INSTR<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091She has never seen Masha crying.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>(2) Ona nikogda ne vide-l-a [pla?-u\u009a?-uju Ma\u009a-u] .<br clear='none'\/>\nshe never NEG see-PST-F.SG cry-PTCP.IPFV-F.SG.ACC M.-ACC<br clear='none'\/>\nLit.: \u0091She has never seen crying Masha.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>(3) Ona nikogda ne vide-l-a, [kak Ma\u009aa pla?-et].<br clear='none'\/>\nshe never NEG see-PST-F.SG COMP M.NOM cry-NPST.3SG<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091She has never seen Masha cry.\u0092 (lit.: \u0091how Masha cries\u0092)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)Title: Participial Complementation in RussianTime: Tuesday, October 28th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In this talk I will present a syntactic analysis of Russian sentences such as (1), which feature participles marked with the so-called \u0091Predicate instrumental case\u0092 (Bailyn 2001). I will argue that these participial clauses are arguments with a PredP (small [&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-17524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","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=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}