{"id":2930,"date":"2011-09-12T05:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2011-09-11T23:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:41:59","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-916-line-mikkelsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/09\/12\/linguistics-colloquium-916-line-mikkelsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 9\/16 - Line Mikkelsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~mikkelsen\/\">Line Mikkelsen<\/a> - University of California, Berkeley<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora<br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, 9\/16<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30 PM<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most work on verb-second order in Germanic languages assumes that the choice<br clear='none'\/>\nof initial constituent in declarative verb-second clauses is a matter of<br clear='none'\/>\ntextual organization which falls outside the domain of syntax. In this talk<br clear='none'\/>\nI give evidence that in at least one Germanic language there are<br clear='none'\/>\nintrasential syntactic principles that restrict what may occupy initial<br clear='none'\/>\nposition in declarative verb-second clauses. I further show how these<br clear='none'\/>\nprinciples bear on one of the central disagreements in the generative<br clear='none'\/>\nliterature on Germanic clause structure, namely whether subject-initial<br clear='none'\/>\nverb-second clauses have the same structure as non-subject-initial<br clear='none'\/>\nverb-second clauses. The proposed analysis uses dedicated wh and<br clear='none'\/>\ninformation-structural features to drive A-bar movement and thereby offers a<br clear='none'\/>\ntheoretical counterpoint to recent work arguing against the existence of<br clear='none'\/>\nsuch features and their involvement in A-bar movement, including Fanselow<br clear='none'\/>\nand Lenertov\u00e1 (2011) and Chomsky (2008).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Line Mikkelsen - University of California, Berkeley Title: Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora Date: Friday, 9\/16 Time: 3:30 PM Location: 32-141 Abstract: Most work on verb-second order in Germanic languages assumes that the choice of initial constituent in declarative verb-second clauses is a matter of textual organization which falls outside the domain [&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-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}