{"id":2310,"date":"2011-03-07T05:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2011-03-04T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:15:23","slug":"syntax-square-37-alya-asarina-and-jeremy-hartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/03\/07\/syntax-square-37-alya-asarina-and-jeremy-hartman\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/7 - Alya Asarina and Jeremy Hartman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Alya Asarina and Jeremy Hartman<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Genitive subject licensing in Uyghur subordinate clauses<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday, March 7, 11:30am-12:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn this talk we analyze embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language<br clear='none'\/>\nspoken in the Xinjiang province of China. We make three main claims.<br clear='none'\/>\nFirst, we claim that genitive case on the subjects of these clauses is<br clear='none'\/>\nlicensed by agreement with a clause-external D head. Second, we claim<br clear='none'\/>\nthat these clauses are always embedded by a head noun, though in some<br clear='none'\/>\ncases this noun is phonologically null. Third, we show that these<br clear='none'\/>\nclauses are full CPs that can be headed by an overt complementizer.<br clear='none'\/>\nPutting these claims together, we conclude that Uyghur exhibits<br clear='none'\/>\nagreement and case-assignment over a CP boundary, and thus provides a<br clear='none'\/>\nchallenge for certain proposals about the locality of these<br clear='none'\/>\nrelationships.  We discuss several approaches to the Uyghur facts, as<br clear='none'\/>\nwell as similar phenomena in other languages, within the framework of<br clear='none'\/>\nPhase Theory (Chomsky 2001 et seq.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Alya Asarina and Jeremy Hartman Title: Genitive subject licensing in Uyghur subordinate clauses Time: Monday, March 7, 11:30am-12:30pm Location: 32-D461 In this talk we analyze embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang province of China. We make three main claims. First, we claim that genitive case on the subjects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}