{"id":3747,"date":"2012-03-05T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:26:28","slug":"ling-lunch-38-cristiano-chesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/03\/05\/ling-lunch-38-cristiano-chesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 3\/8 - Cristiano Chesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciscl.unisi.it\/persone\/chesi.htm\">Cristiano Chesi<\/a> (NETS\u00a0?\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Pavia,\u00a0CISCL\u00a0?\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Siena)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Top?Down, Left?Right Derivations<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Mar 8, 12:30-1:45p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<p>The full abstract is available <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/linglunch-chesi-sp12.pdf\">here (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The goal of this talk is to provide empirical arguments in favor of a derivational view of the<br clear='none'\/>\ngrammar in which structure building occurs, incrementally, top-down (Chesi 2004a, 2007) and from<br clear='none'\/>\nleft to right (Phillips 1996, 2003). <\/p>\n<p>Following the Minimalist research spirit (Chomsky 1995-2008), I will show that the bottom-to-top<br clear='none'\/>\norientation of phrase structure building is not a \u0093virtual conceptual necessity\u0094 and that we can gain in<br clear='none'\/>\ndescriptive adequacy if we drift away from the idea that the basic recursive operation is a set formation<br clear='none'\/>\noperation like Merge. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Cristiano Chesi (NETS\u00a0?\u00a0IUSS\u00a0Pavia,\u00a0CISCL\u00a0?\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Siena) Title: Top?Down, Left?Right Derivations Date\/Time: Thursday, Mar 8, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 The full abstract is available here (PDF). The goal of this talk is to provide empirical arguments in favor of a derivational view of the grammar in which structure building occurs, incrementally, top-down (Chesi 2004a, 2007) and from left to [&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-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}