{"id":4921,"date":"2013-03-04T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2013-03-04T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:03:27","slug":"syntax-square-35-amanda-swenson-and-paul-marty-on-malayalam-anaphora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/03\/04\/syntax-square-35-amanda-swenson-and-paul-marty-on-malayalam-anaphora\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/5 -  Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Local Agreement without local binding: What the syntax and prosody of Malayalam <em>taan<\/em> teach us<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, March 5, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jayaseelan (1997) among others has described the Malayalam anti-local form <em>taan<\/em> \u0091self\u0092 as a subject oriented, bound variable that requires a 3rd person antecedent. In this talk, we provide new data from the first systematic exploration of a second reading <em>taan<\/em> can have, namely an addressee (ADR) reading. We provide a detailed description of the syntactic and prosodic conditions under which 3rd person and ADR readings occur and argue for a unified account of these readings (contra Asher &amp; Kumari 1997). We provide novel data that suggest the so-called Blocking Effects described in the literature are not an intervention phenomenon but rather the result of the morphosyntactic properties of <em>taan<\/em>. Contra recent radical revisions of Binding Theory (Rooryck &amp; Vanden Wyngaerd 2011, Reuland 2011), we argue that local Agreement (i) always occurs between the nearest subject nominal and <em>taan<\/em>, but (ii) never results in local binding because of the anti-local nature of taan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Amanda Swenson and Paul Marty Title: Local Agreement without local binding: What the syntax and prosody of Malayalam taan teach us Date\/Time: Tuesday, March 5, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Jayaseelan (1997) among others has described the Malayalam anti-local form taan \u0091self\u0092 as a subject oriented, bound variable that requires a 3rd person antecedent. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}