{"id":3831,"date":"2012-03-19T05:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2012-03-18T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T17:59:16","slug":"ling-lunch-322-theresa-biberauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/03\/19\/ling-lunch-322-theresa-biberauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 3\/22 - Theresa Biberauer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
\nTitle: One peculiarity leads to another: insights from Afrikaans analyticity
\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Mar 22, 12:30-1:45p
\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n

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This talk takes two superficially unconnected phenomena in Afrikaans \u0096 negation doubling by clause-final nie2 as in (1) and predicate doubling as in (2) \u0096 as its point of departure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
(1) <\/td>\nEk<\/td>\nis<\/td>\nnie1\/nooit<\/td>\ntevrede<\/td>\nnie2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI<\/td>\nam<\/td>\nnot\/never<\/td>\nsatisfied<\/td>\nPOL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u0093I am not\/never satisfied\u0094 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
(2) <\/td>\na. <\/td>\nSing<\/td>\nSING<\/td>\ndaardie<\/td>\nman!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nsing<\/td>\nsing<\/td>\nthere.the<\/td>\nman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u0093That man really sings with gusto!\u0094 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
(2) <\/td>\nb. <\/td>\nGelukkig<\/td>\nis<\/td>\nek<\/td>\nnou<\/td>\nregtig<\/td>\nGELUKKIG!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nhappy<\/td>\nam<\/td>\nI<\/td>\nnow<\/td>\nreally<\/td>\nhappy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u0093As for being happy, I\u0092m REALLY happy!\u0094 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Based on a combination of diachronic and synchronic considerations, I argue that these phenomena can in fact be connected and that doing so enables us to understand a third, from a Germanic perspective, very surprising fact, namely that Afrikaans readily permits embedded V2 wh-interrogatives, regardless of the nature of the selecting predicate. This latter property is shown in (3):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
(3) <\/td>\na. <\/td>\nEk<\/td>\nwonder<\/td>\nwatter<\/td>\neksamen<\/td>\nskryf<\/td>\ndie<\/td>\nstudente<\/td>\nvanaand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI<\/td>\nwonder<\/td>\nwhich<\/td>\nexam<\/td>\nwrite<\/td>\nthe<\/td>\nstudents<\/td>\ntonight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u0093I wonder what exam the students are writing tonight\u0094<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
(3) <\/td>\nb. <\/td>\nHulle<\/td>\nvind<\/td>\nnet<\/td>\ngou<\/td>\nuit<\/td>\nwie<\/td>\nmoet<\/td>\ndie<\/td>\nkaartjies<\/td>\ngaan<\/td>\nkoop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nthey<\/td>\nfind<\/td>\njust<\/td>\nquickly<\/td>\nout<\/td>\nwho<\/td>\nmust<\/td>\nthe<\/td>\ntickets<\/td>\ngo<\/td>\nbuy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u0093They\u0092re just quickly finding out who needs to buy the tickets\u0094<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

From a theoretical perspective, the significance of the data under discussion is argued to be i.a. the insight they deliver into the notion \u0091acategorial element\u0092 and the properties elements of this type exhibit in relation to the Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC; Biberauer, Holmberg & Roberts 2007 et seq.), and also what they suggest about the underdiscussed question of the relationship between Minimalism\u0092s putative phase heads and the more articulated functional domains assumed by cartographers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) Title: One peculiarity leads to another: insights from Afrikaans analyticity Date\/Time: Thursday, Mar 22, 12:30-1:45p Location: 32-D461 This talk takes two superficially unconnected phenomena in Afrikaans \u0096 negation doubling by clause-final nie2 as in (1) and predicate doubling as in (2) \u0096 as its point of departure. (1) Ek […]<\/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-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","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=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}