{"id":2667,"date":"2011-05-02T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2011-05-01T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:59:37","slug":"colloquium-56-shin-ishihara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/05\/02\/colloquium-56-shin-ishihara\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 5\/6 - Shin Ishihara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shin Ishihara (J.W. Goethe-Universit\u00e4t, Frankfurt am Main)<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Friday, May 6, 2011, 3:30pm-5pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141 (PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: On the Clause-Mate Condition in Japanese: Implicit Prosody and<br clear='none'\/>\nArgument Structure Parsing<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In some syntactic constructions in Japanese, more than one constituent<br clear='none'\/>\ncan move together to a certain syntactic position. One example is the<br clear='none'\/>\ncleft construction: Japanese clefts allow multiple constituents to<br clear='none'\/>\nappear in the focus position (`It is x, y that &#8230; t(x) &#8230; t(y)&#8230;&#8217;).<br clear='none'\/>\nIt has often been claimed that such constituents must originate from<br clear='none'\/>\nthe same clause, i.e., they must be clause-mates (= the Clause-Mate<br clear='none'\/>\nCondition, the CMC). This condition has often been analyzed as a<br clear='none'\/>\nsyntactic constraint that strictly bans any syntactic derivation<br clear='none'\/>\nviolating it. There are, however, cases where the CMC can be obviated.<br clear='none'\/>\nFor example, if the cleft sentence with multiple foci is a wh-question<br clear='none'\/>\n(`Who(x), what(y) is it that &#8230; t(x) &#8230; t(y) &#8230;?&#8217;), the sentence<br clear='none'\/>\nacceptability improves compared to its declarative counterpart. So<br clear='none'\/>\nfar, no account has been proposed that can explain both the CMC and<br clear='none'\/>\nthe CMC obviation cases.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I claim that the Clause-Mate Condition in Japanese is<br clear='none'\/>\nnot a syntactic constraint, and propose that the CMC effect comes from<br clear='none'\/>\nthe influence of `implicit prosody&#8217; on sentence parsing. Adopting the<br clear='none'\/>\nImplicit Prosody Hypothesis (Fodor 1998, 2002), I will propose a<br clear='none'\/>\nparsing principle which imposes a certain bias on the argument<br clear='none'\/>\nstructure comprehension according to the prosodic phrasing in the<br clear='none'\/>\nimplicit prosody. This analysis can explain both the CMC effect in<br clear='none'\/>\nclefts with multiple focus constituents and its obviation effect under<br clear='none'\/>\ncertain conditions (including interrogatives) in a parallel fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also makes further predictions on potential parsing<br clear='none'\/>\ndifficulties in other constructions such as long-distance scrambling.<br clear='none'\/>\nIt will be suggested that some of the mysterious restrictions found in<br clear='none'\/>\nlong-distance scrambling in Japanese (e.g., ban on long-distance<br clear='none'\/>\nscrambling to a sentence-medial position, ban on scrambling of<br clear='none'\/>\nnominative subjects) are related to the parsing difficulty caused by<br clear='none'\/>\nthe implicit prosody.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shin Ishihara (J.W. Goethe-Universit\u00e4t, Frankfurt am Main) Time: Friday, May 6, 2011, 3:30pm-5pm Location: 32-141 (PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM) Title: On the Clause-Mate Condition in Japanese: Implicit Prosody and Argument Structure Parsing Abstract: In some syntactic constructions in Japanese, more than one constituent can move together to a certain syntactic position. One example is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}