{"id":17672,"date":"2025-11-17T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17672"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:53:34","slug":"minicourse-pavel-caha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/11\/17\/minicourse-pavel-caha\/","title":{"rendered":"Minicourse - Pavel Caha (Masaryk University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">Speaker<\/b>: Pavel Caha (Masaryk University)<\/div>\n<div><b>Title<\/b>: \u0093Allomorphy in Nanosyntax\u0094<\/div>\n<div><b>When<\/b>: Wednesday, November 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 1pm-2:30pm (Day 1) + Thursday, November 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 12:30-2pm (Day 2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Where<\/b>: 32-D461<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract:\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Syntax is a combinatorial system which, in the simplest case, takes two objects and joins them together. E.g., when an excessive marker (<i>too<\/i>) combines with an adjective (<i>tall<\/i>), we get the phrase <i>too tall<\/i>\u00a0with predictable form and meaning<i>.<\/i>\u00a0Morphological concatenation is apparently different and requires linear statements of the sort &#8220;realize plural as <i>-en<\/i>\u00a0next to <i>ox<\/i>&#8221; (but not next to <i>fox<\/i>).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The minicourse explores the options for the treatment of allomorphy in Nanosyntax. It argues that if we use phrasal lexicalization, allomorphy can be captured without contextual rules. In this system, different allomorphs lexicalize different features, reflecting a &#8220;division of labor&#8221; between which meanings are expressed by the root\/stem and which by the affix. The system is both more restrictive in some areas than contextual rules and more powerful in others. The course unpacks these properties on several case studies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Pavel Caha (Masaryk University) Title: \u0093Allomorphy in Nanosyntax\u0094 When: Wednesday, November 19th, 1pm-2:30pm (Day 1) + Thursday, November 20th, 12:30-2pm (Day 2)\u00a0\u00a0 Where: 32-D461 \u00a0 Abstract:\u00a0 Syntax is a combinatorial system which, in the simplest case, takes two objects and joins them together. E.g., when an excessive marker (too) combines with an adjective (tall), [&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-17672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672","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=17672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17674,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions\/17674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}