{"id":18243,"date":"2026-09-21T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:32:41","slug":"saengthong-accepted-for-publication-by-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/09\/21\/saengthong-accepted-for-publication-by-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Saengthong accepted for publication by STAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper co-authored by our 3rd year student <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Rotsuprit (Ford) Saengthong and John Gluckman (University of Kansas), entitled &#8220;Thai\u00a0<i>Tough<\/i>-Constructions and the\u00a0<i>Tough<\/i> Signature&#8221;, has been accepted for publication by <em>Syntactic Theory &amp; Research<\/em> (STAR). Below is the abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We investigate the\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-construction in Thai, focusing on two exceptional properties. First, Thai\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-constructions may involve a potentially unconstrained dependency, and second, the gap in the embedded clause can be in the subject position. While these facts superficially support a heterogeneous view of\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-constructions across the world\u0092s languages, on closer inspection, we come to a different conclusion. We argue that unconstrained dependencies and subject gaps are not a function of Thai\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-constructions, but instead reflect the fact that Thai has an undiagnosed broad subject position. Once controlled for, Thai\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-constructions look surprisingly like other well-documented cases. Ultimately, we are concerned not with variation in\u00a0<i>tough<\/i>-constructions, but rather crosslinguistic similarities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the paper here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lingbuzz.net\/lingbuzz\/010319\">https:\/\/lingbuzz.net\/lingbuzz\/010319<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Ford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper co-authored by our 3rd year student Rotsuprit (Ford) Saengthong and John Gluckman (University of Kansas), entitled &#8220;Thai\u00a0Tough-Constructions and the\u00a0Tough Signature&#8221;, has been accepted for publication by Syntactic Theory &amp; Research (STAR). Below is the abstract: We investigate the\u00a0tough-construction in Thai, focusing on two exceptional properties. First, Thai\u00a0tough-constructions may involve a potentially unconstrained dependency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18244,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}