{"id":17697,"date":"2025-12-01T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17697"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:08:00","slug":"syntax-square-12-2-tam-berulava-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/12\/01\/syntax-square-12-2-tam-berulava-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/2 - Tam Berulava (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Tam Berulava (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Case-Matching Effects in Long-Distance Wh-Questions in Georgian<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, December 2nd, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I will present an ongoing project on long-distance wh-questions in Georgian, focusing on the interaction between cross-clausal wh-movement and case. Building on recent claims that Georgian lacks true cross-clausal wh-movement and instead uses only proleptic question constructions, I argue that genuine wh-extraction from embedded clauses is in fact available, but its distribution is tightly constrained. In particular, I show that acceptability systematically tracks (i) the case configuration between the matrix subject and the extracted wh-phrase and (ii) the structural size of the embedded clause, giving rise to robust \u0093case matching\u0094 effects in long-distance questions. These effects indicate that the extracted wh-phrase is, in some way, visible to the matrix-level case-assigning algorithm, raising the natural question of how\u0097and why\u0097such cross-clausal visibility is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Tam Berulava (MIT)Title: Case-Matching Effects in Long-Distance Wh-Questions in GeorgianTime: Tuesday, December 2nd, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: I will present an ongoing project on long-distance wh-questions in Georgian, focusing on the interaction between cross-clausal wh-movement and case. Building on recent claims that Georgian lacks true cross-clausal wh-movement and instead uses only proleptic question constructions, [&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-17697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697","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=17697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}