{"id":3416,"date":"2011-12-06T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2011-12-06T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T06:04:43","slug":"omer-preminger-in-nllt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/12\/06\/omer-preminger-in-nllt\/","title":{"rendered":"Omer Preminger in <em>NLLT<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper has just appeared in <em>Natural Language and Linguistic Theory<\/em> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/omerp\/www\/site\/Home.html\">Omer Preminger<\/a><\/strong> (PhD 2011, postdoctoral fellow with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/~herpro\">Masha Polinsky at Harvard <\/a>and a visiting faculty member here).  It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/1138676665078123\/\">&#8220;Asymmetries between person and number in syntax: a commentary on Baker\u0092s SCOPA&#8221;<\/a>.  The abstract describes its contribution as follows: &#8220;In this commentary, I explore Basque data that counter-exemplifies SCOPA, as well as a handful of other empirical patterns that SCOPA fails to address, but which I believe should be treated as part of the same empirical landscape. But far from condemning SCOPA, I believe these additional patterns may provide us with hints regarding how SCOPA (with its considerable empirical coverage), as well as its exceptions, are to be derived.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Omer!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper has just appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory by Omer Preminger (PhD 2011, postdoctoral fellow with Masha Polinsky at Harvard and a visiting faculty member here). It is called &#8220;Asymmetries between person and number in syntax: a commentary on Baker\u0092s SCOPA&#8221;. The abstract describes its contribution as follows: &#8220;In this commentary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}