{"id":18397,"date":"2026-11-02T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:10:00","slug":"morphun-11-5-vsevolod-masliukov-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/11\/02\/morphun-11-5-vsevolod-masliukov-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MorPhun 11\/5 - Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Two is Many: Dual Neutralization and Markedness<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, November 5th, 5pm - 6pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D769<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This talk looks at a class of neutralizations in which the dual is replaced by the plural whenever two bundles of phi-features are spelled out within a single morphological word. I adopt a bivalent decomposition of number into [\u00b1singular] and [\u00b1augmented] (Harbour 2011) and argue that these patterns arise from postsyntactic Impoverishment of the marked [\u2013augmented] value, which leaves an underspecified plural exponent to surface on semantic duals.<br clear='none'\/>\nThe core case comes from my fieldwork on Kazym Khanty (Uralic). There, possessed duals may take plural morphology while keeping both dual meaning and dual verb agreement. Crucially, this is possible only with possessors that rank high on a combined person\u2013number markedness hierarchy. This supports Nevins\u2019s (2011) view that marked values both trigger Impoverishment and are its targets.<br clear='none'\/>\nParallel data from Mehri, Third Mesa Hopi, Warlpiri and Nimboran suggest a broader generalization: two local phi-bundles are themselves a marked configuration, which can be resolved in different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Vsevolod Masliukov (MIT)Title: Two is Many: Dual Neutralization and MarkednessTime: Thursday, November 5th, 5pm - 6pmLocation: 32-D769Abstract: This talk looks at a class of neutralizations in which the dual is replaced by the plural whenever two bundles of phi-features are spelled out within a single morphological word. I adopt a bivalent decomposition of number [&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-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","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=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18415,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions\/18415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}