Bantu languages like Zulu have been claimed to lack Case Filter effects on the distribution of nominals
\n(Harford Perez 1985, Diercks to appear). In this talk I argue against this view of Bantu as an exception to
\nstandard case theory. In particular, I propose that by adopting (1) Ndayiragije\u0092s suggestion that there is a
\nhead that probes for DP in a manner familiar from case-checking in other languages, but which can check
\nDPs not in need of case; and (2) Preminger\u0092s (2009, 2010) proposal that agreement is obligatory where
\npossible, but is permitted to fail without inducing a crash, I can account for two distinct puzzles in Zulu \u0096 the
\n\u0091conjoint\/disjoint\u0092 alternation (van der Spuy 1993; Buell 2005) and the distribution of augmentless nominals
\n(Buell 2011) \u0096 if we assume that Zulu DPs are subject to the Case Filter just like their counterparts in other
\nlanguages. Taken together, then, these two puzzles and their proposed solution suggest that Case Theory is
\nperhaps fundamentally invariant across languages, despite a large amount of surface variation. They also
\nprovide evidence for Preminger\u0092s theory of agreement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nIt is well known that English is cross-linguistically exceptional in
\nallowing constructions like (1), where subject-to-subject raising proceeds
\nacross an overt, full-DP experiencer:<\/p>\n
(1) John seems to Mary to be happy.<\/p>\n
Although this point has been the subject of much discussion (Kitahara
\n1997, McGinnis 1998, Boeckx 1999, Chomsky 2000, Collins 2005), the
\nliterature still lacks a satisfyingly predictive account of when and why
\nEnglish is able to avoid the standard \u0091defective
\nintervention\u0092 effect. This paper makes both an empirical and a theoretical
\ncontribution to these questions. I begin by laying out an expanded set of
\nintervention phenomena in English. Building on work in Hartman (2009), I
\npresent data showing that English does in fact display intervention in a
\nvariety of other NP-raising constructions. In other words, examples like
\n(1) are the exception even within English: in several similar
\nenvironments, the cross-linguistically typical effect is revealed. Next, I
\nsketch an analysis of the newly expanded data set, inspired by Mu?ller\u0092s
\n(2001) \u0091Parallel Movement\u0092 constraint. The analysis accounts both for the
\ncross-linguistic variation between English and other languages, and for
\nthe cross-constructional variation within English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week’s Syntax Square features NELS 42 practice talks by Claire and Jeremy. Time\/Date: Tuesday, Nov 8, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Speaker: Claire Halpert Title: Structural case and the nature of vP in Zulu The full abstract is available (PDF). Bantu languages like Zulu have been claimed to lack Case Filter effects on the distribution of […]<\/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-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}