{"id":17534,"date":"2025-10-27T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17534"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:03:35","slug":"linglunch-ivy-sichel-uc-santa-cruz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/27\/linglunch-ivy-sichel-uc-santa-cruz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 10\/30 - Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>How resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations - evidence from Hebrew<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, October 30, 12:30pm - 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>While some resumptive pronouns (RPs), in some languages, ameliorate island violations (Hebrew, Irish, Lebanese Arabic, among others), not all do (Vata (Koopman 1982), Welsh (Tallerman 1983), Nupe (Kandybowicz 2007)). The variation in this domain is perplexing: what is it that allows RPs to ameliorate island violations in the languages in which they do, and how might this be parametrically constrained? According to the \u0091Classic View\u0092 (Chomsky 1977, Borer 1984, McCloskey 1990), the repair is only indirect: RPs are associated with a distinct, non-movement, derivation (1a), in which an island violation is simply not incurred. By now, however, it has become clear that RPs are at least sometimes compatible with movement derivations, even in languages which exhibit island repair (Aoun, Choueiri &amp; Hornstein 2001, Sichel 2014). This raises the possibility that an RP that repairs an island violation is similarly compatible with movement, and that the repair is direct, due to the realization of the gap as an RP within a movement derivation (Perlmutter 1972, Pesetsky 1998). The present study argues for the \u0091Classic View\u0092 based on the syntax of RPs in high positions in Hebrew RCs - because in this situation, the RP is not realizing the gap at the foot of the chain. This suggests that languages with island-sensitive RPs lack the non-movement RC structure. Along the way, I will develop a particular view of movement-compatible RPs, according to which RPs directly realize a position in an A-bar movement chain, regulated by Economy of Pronunciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz) Title: How resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations - evidence from Hebrew Time: Thursday, October 30, 12:30pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: While some resumptive pronouns (RPs), in some languages, ameliorate island violations (Hebrew, Irish, Lebanese Arabic, among others), not all do (Vata (Koopman 1982), Welsh (Tallerman 1983), Nupe (Kandybowicz [&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-17534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534","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=17534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17536,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17534\/revisions\/17536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}