{"id":18232,"date":"2026-09-14T06:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18232"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:43:31","slug":"syntax-square-10-15-giovani-roversi-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/14\/syntax-square-10-15-giovani-roversi-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 09\/15 - Giovani Roversi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Speaker:<\/b> Giovani Roversi (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Title: <\/b> Applicative left behind?<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Time: <\/b>Tuesday, September 15, 1:00pm - 2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<b>Location: <\/b>32-D461<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I will present you some curious data from \u00c4iwoo that I\u0092ve been banging my head on for a while. We will see a construction that functionally speaking seems to be a relative clear case of an applicative (i.e., it adds one DP argument to the argument structure of the verb, one that would\u0092ve otherwise had to be expressed as a PP). However, the way it\u0092s morphologically realized is rather puzzling, because it\u0092s nowhere near where applicatives typically are found. Given what they do syntactically, applicative heads are usually in the lower theta domain of the clause (i.e., within vP\/VoiceP). Therefore, by the Mirror Principle (Baker 1988)\u0092s terms and conditions, applicative morphemes <i>should<\/i>\u00a0be very close to the verb stem \u0097 and indeed they are, in most (all?) cases I know of. However, in the \u00c4iwoo case, the particle that marks this \u0093applicative\u0094 construction is realized somewhere else entirely. I will discuss a couple of hypotheses about what we could be looking at, and where they break. Put on your creative syntactician hats, and help me out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Giovani Roversi (MIT) Title: Applicative left behind? Time: Tuesday, September 15, 1:00pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 \u00a0I will present you some curious data from \u00c4iwoo that I\u0092ve been banging my head on for a while. We will see a construction that functionally speaking seems to be a relative clear case of an applicative (i.e., [&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-18232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232","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=18232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}