{"id":1931,"date":"2010-11-08T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:27:32","slug":"mit-linguistics-colloquium-1112-caroline-heycock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/08\/mit-linguistics-colloquium-1112-caroline-heycock\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics Colloquium 11\/12 - Caroline Heycock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker: Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Riding the tail of the S-shaped curve: detecting the end of a syntactic<br clear='none'\/>\nchange in Faroese.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, November 12, 2010<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30-5:00PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM)<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>   Since the seminal work of Jonas 1996, the Scandinavian language Faroese has<br clear='none'\/>\nbeen considered to be a crucial test case for claims concerning the relation or<br clear='none'\/>\nlack of it between agreement morphology and verb movement. In this language,<br clear='none'\/>\nsyncretism has expanded in the agreement system, and Jonas argued that there<br clear='none'\/>\nare now two dialects, one in which verb movement over negation has been lost<br clear='none'\/>\nentirely, and one in which verb movement is optional, although preferred. In<br clear='none'\/>\nthis talk I will present new data from a 3-year project on the status of verb<br clear='none'\/>\nmovement in current Faroese. I will argue that there is no evidence for<br clear='none'\/>\ndialectal variation; more surprisingly, there is also no evidence of<br clear='none'\/>\ngenerational difference. I will claim that it is nevertheless possible to<br clear='none'\/>\ndetect in Faroese the prints of a syntactic change that is not yet quite<br clear='none'\/>\ncomplete: a change at the very tail of the S-shaped curve.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh Title: Riding the tail of the S-shaped curve: detecting the end of a syntactic change in Faroese. Date: Friday, November 12, 2010 Time: 3:30-5:00PM Place: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM) Since the seminal work of Jonas 1996, the Scandinavian language Faroese has been considered to be a crucial test case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}