Mark your calendar to come and join us this Thursday for a Ling-lunch talk by:<\/p>\n
Omer Preminger (MIT)
\n“Basque Ling-Lunch Redux.”<\/p>\n
WHEN: Feb 14, 12:30
\nWHERE: 32-D461<\/p>\n
ABSTRACT:<\/p>\n
Part II of the Basque Ling-Lunch series will begin with a recap of Episode One
\n- attendance of previous talk will *not* be assumed! - where it was shown that
\napparent cases of Long-Distance Agreement (LDA) in dialectal Basque do not in
\nfact constitute a case of true LDA (construed as agreement that spans across
\nthe boundaries of established locality domains). I provide evidence that the
\ncases in question fall into one of two categories: either (i) the apparent
\nLDA relation is comprised of two separate agreement relations, “stacked” on
\ntop of one another, each of which is perfectly well-behaved with respect to
\nthe relevant locality restrictions; or (ii) the agreement relation in question
\nspans the boundaries of neither DP nor CP, and is thus typologically
\nunexceptional.<\/p>\n
In this brand new episode, I turn to the distinction between Agree (conceived
\nof as a relation between a probing head and a goal) and clitic-doubling
\n(conceived of as the generating of a clitic which is matched in phi-features
\nwith a full argument DP). Certain asymmetries in the reach of so-called LDA
\nwhen targeting dative noun-phrases and targeting absolutive ones suggest that
\nabsolutive agreement is an instance of Agree proper, whereas the dative (and
\nergative) exponents on the auxiliary are the result of clitic-doubling. In
\nthe climactic finale, I present an independent diagnostic for distinguishing
\nAgree from clitic-doubling: when so-called LDA fails to obtain, the
\nagreement-bearing form of the auxiliary is obviously ruled out; the question is
\nwhether what shows up is default agreement on the corresponding exponent, or
\nrather an auxiliary form that lacks the relevant exponent altogether. I show
\nthat precisely in those relations hypothesized here to be Agree relations,
\nfailure of the relation results in default agreement-whereas in those
\nrelations hypothesized here to be clitic-doubling, failure results in the
\nwholesale absence of the relevant exponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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