{"id":1946,"date":"2010-11-15T05:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2010-11-16T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:16:15","slug":"syntax-square-1116-isaac-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/15\/syntax-square-1116-isaac-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/16 - Isaac Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for Syntax Square this week.  Isaac Gould will present his work on the Grassfields Bantu language Lamnso&#8217;.<BR><\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Isaac Gould<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Who Isn\u0092t There? A preliminary description of the absentive in Lamnso\u0092<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Tuesday, November 16, 1-2PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this descriptive talk, I sketch out some of the basic uses of the absentive morpheme &#8216;siiy&#8217; in<br clear='none'\/>\nLamnso\u0092 (Grassfields, Cameroon). Its primary use is to indicate someone\u0092s spatial absence in<br clear='none'\/>\nrequests or when reporting information, but it might also have a temporal use as well. I will also<br clear='none'\/>\ngive a brief overview of absentive constructions in some other languages. The way that absence<br clear='none'\/>\nis expressed in Lamnso\u0092 appears to be typologically uncommon, but it does seem to have<br clear='none'\/>\nparallels in other languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for Syntax Square this week. Isaac Gould will present his work on the Grassfields Bantu language Lamnso&#8217;. Speaker: Isaac Gould Title: Who Isn\u0092t There? A preliminary description of the absentive in Lamnso\u0092 Time: Tuesday, November 16, 1-2PM Location: 32-D461 In this descriptive talk, I sketch out some of the basic uses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}