{"id":4097,"date":"2012-04-23T05:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2012-04-23T00:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T04:46:33","slug":"special-talk-424-uli-sauerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/04\/23\/special-talk-424-uli-sauerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Special talk 4\/24 - Uli Sauerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Uli Sauerland<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday 4\/24, 5 pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Modeling Syncretism Distribution (joint work with Jonathan Bobaljik)<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Does the fact that English &#8220;you&#8221; is both singular and plural, show that there&#8217;s an abstract feature &#8220;2nd Person&#8221;?  While many generative analysis accept such an argument, they also need to accept cases of accidental homophony &#8212; two morphemes that aren&#8217;t related through an abstract feature, but nevertheless sound the same.  But, why then not also assume that &#8220;you&#8221; in the singular and &#8220;you&#8221; in the plural accidentally sound the same with no need for an abstract feature. The distinction between accidental and systematic (i.e. derived from pieces of generative apparatus) homophony is a conundrum, generative morphologists haven&#8217;t overcome.  The starting point of our talk is the new hypothesis that accidental homophony should be random &#8212; i.e. randomly distributed across languages and across cells of a paradigm.  This provides the basis for a statistical approach to paradigm patterns.  In the talk, we present two results: 1) The general statistical framework for the analysis of paradigm pattern frequencies. 2) A preliminary application of the framework to Cysouw\u0092s (2003, OUP) data on person marking to argue that a generative analysis accounts for the data rather well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Uli Sauerland Date\/Time: Tuesday 4\/24, 5 pm Location: 32-D831 Title: Modeling Syncretism Distribution (joint work with Jonathan Bobaljik) Abstract: Does the fact that English &#8220;you&#8221; is both singular and plural, show that there&#8217;s an abstract feature &#8220;2nd Person&#8221;? While many generative analysis accept such an argument, they also need to accept cases of accidental [&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-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}