{"id":4142,"date":"2012-04-30T05:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2012-04-30T00:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T04:18:25","slug":"syntax-square-51-mitcho-erlewine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/04\/30\/syntax-square-51-mitcho-erlewine\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 5\/1 - Mitcho Erlewine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Mitcho Erlewine<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Kaqchikel Agent Focus and the syntax of extraction<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, May 1, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Agent Focus (AF) in Mayan languages is a morphological change to<br clear='none'\/>\ntransitive verbs which is traditionally described as obligatory<br clear='none'\/>\nwhenever a subject is A&#8217;-extracted. In this talk I present evidence<br clear='none'\/>\nfrom my ongoing fieldwork on Kaqchikel that AF morphology does not<br clear='none'\/>\nsimply appear when the subject of a transitive verb is A&#8217;-extracted.<br clear='none'\/>\nRather, AF morphology occurs when the subject of a transitive verb<br clear='none'\/>\nmoves to a particular, immediately preverbal position. This can be<br clear='none'\/>\nshown by a careful look at sentences involving multiple A&#8217;-extractions<br clear='none'\/>\nto the same verbal periphery. I will discuss what this might tell us<br clear='none'\/>\nabout the nature of AF and argue against recent Case-based approaches<br clear='none'\/>\nto AF (Coon, Mateo Pedro, Preminger, ms; Assmann et al, 2012) for<br clear='none'\/>\nKaqchikel.<\/p>\n<p>The data also features some fun scope judgments&#8230; semanticists also welcome!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Mitcho Erlewine Title: Kaqchikel Agent Focus and the syntax of extraction Date\/Time: Tuesday, May 1, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Agent Focus (AF) in Mayan languages is a morphological change to transitive verbs which is traditionally described as obligatory whenever a subject is A&#8217;-extracted. In this talk I present evidence from my ongoing fieldwork on Kaqchikel [&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-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","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=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}