{"id":4799,"date":"2013-02-11T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2013-02-11T05:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T09:05:28","slug":"syntax-square-212-junya-nomura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/02\/11\/syntax-square-212-junya-nomura\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 2\/12 - Junya Nomura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:  Junya Nomura<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle:  Syntax of Associative Plurals and Licensing of Empty Nouns<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/time:  Tuesday, Feb 12th, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been claimed by many researchers (Rizzi (1986), Lobeck (1993,1995) among others) that agreements involve licensing of empty elements.  Licensing can be done between a verb and a DP or can be DP-internal.  In this talk, I would like to propose two claims about associative plurals.<\/p>\n<p>First, following Vassilieva (2005) and Zhang (2008), I will show that associative plurals should be analyzed to contain an empty noun and that what seems to be a head noun is really a modifier.  The evidence for this consists of modifier-like morphology of associative plurals and positions of plural marker.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I will provide evidence that the empty noun inside associative plurals must be licensed by agreeing with a plural morphology.  In some languages (Japanese, Turkish, Chinese among others), this licensing is done DP-internally, and the claim that the empty noun requires a licensing is difficult to check.  However, other languages, for example Kaqchikel and Maltese, adopt licensing by a verb and the claim is falsifiable.  I found some evidence in Kaqchikel that the licensing is really necessary.  That is, in some constructions, such as First Conjunct Agreement and Agent Focus, a verb cannot agree with an argument in some positions.  In these position, associative plurals are not possible, even though ordinary plurals are possible even when there is no plural morphology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Junya Nomura Title: Syntax of Associative Plurals and Licensing of Empty Nouns Date\/time: Tuesday, Feb 12th, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 It&#8217;s been claimed by many researchers (Rizzi (1986), Lobeck (1993,1995) among others) that agreements involve licensing of empty elements. Licensing can be done between a verb and a DP or can be DP-internal. In this [&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-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","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=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}