{"id":4769,"date":"2013-02-04T05:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2013-02-04T05:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:44:42","slug":"syntax-square-24-ted-levin-and-25-hrayr-khanjian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/02\/04\/syntax-square-24-ted-levin-and-25-hrayr-khanjian\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 2\/4 - Ted Levin and 2\/5 - Hrayr Khanjian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syntax Square is scheduled for Tuesdays at 1-2pm this semester. The organizers are <a href=\"mailto:ruth_b@mit.edu\">Ruth Brillman<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:tcchen@mit.edu\">Tingchun Chen<\/a> &#8212; please contact them for scheduling issues, if you have ongoing or completed syntactic work you&#8217;d like to share, or if there&#8217;s an interesting article\/book you&#8217;d like to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>This week, there are two sessions of Syntax Square for WCCFL practice talks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Ted Levin<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Untangling the Balinese bind: Binding and voice in Austronesian<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Monday, Feb 4, 1:30-2:30p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LevinWCCFL2013.pdf\">Full abstract is available. (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voice alternations in  Balinese interact with binding  phenomena  in  a  way  that appears problematic  for<br clear='none'\/>\nstandard views of the A\/A-bar distinction.  In simple sentences, movement to Spec-TP does not create<br clear='none'\/>\nnew  antecedents  for  binding,  suggesting  that  Spec-TP  is  an  A-bar  position.  In  raising  constructions,<br clear='none'\/>\nhowever, movement to the higher Spec-TP does create new antecedents for binding, behavior expected of<br clear='none'\/>\nan A-position.  This paradox is dubbed the Balinese Bind by Wechsler (1998), who uses the phenomenon<br clear='none'\/>\nto demonstrate the superiority of HPSG approaches. In this paper, I argue that the paradox is illusory, and<br clear='none'\/>\nthat Balinese Spec-TP is an unambiguous A-position, if we adopt a new account of the Balinese voice<br clear='none'\/>\nsystem  and  the  Agree-based  theory  of  Binding  advanced  by  Rooryck  and  Vanden  Wyngaerd  (2011).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaker: Hrayr Khanjian<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Complementizer concord in Western Armenian<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, Feb 5, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/KhanjianWCCFL2013.pdf\">Full abstract is available. (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This paper accounts for the typologically unique double headed CP structure found in<br clear='none'\/>\nWestern Armenian (WA), as an instance of concord. Certain CPs in WA can have two<br clear='none'\/>\nheads, where one is head-initial and the other is head-final. For these phrases, it is possible<br clear='none'\/>\nto omit one of the heads, and end up with either a head-initial or head-final phrase. These<br clear='none'\/>\ndouble headed CPs present two major challenges which I present solutions for. First, how<br clear='none'\/>\nto account for the phonological and syntactic differences between the head-initial and the<br clear='none'\/>\nhead-final CPs. Second, how to compositionally derive the desired semantics of the doubly<br clear='none'\/>\nheaded CPs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syntax Square is scheduled for Tuesdays at 1-2pm this semester. The organizers are Ruth Brillman and Tingchun Chen &#8212; please contact them for scheduling issues, if you have ongoing or completed syntactic work you&#8217;d like to share, or if there&#8217;s an interesting article\/book you&#8217;d like to discuss. 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