{"id":5340,"date":"2013-09-09T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2013-09-08T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:57:23","slug":"lfrg-913-ruth-brillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/09\/09\/lfrg-913-ruth-brillman\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 9\/13 - Ruth Brillman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Ruth Brillman
\nDate\/Time: Friday, 13 September, 1 pm
\nLocation: 32-D831
\nTopic: Parasitic Degree Phrases (Nissenbaum & Schwarz 2011)<\/p>\n

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I’ll discuss Nissenbaum & Schwarz’s (2011) Natural Language Semantics<\/em> paper “Parasitic Degree Phrases” (available here<\/a>), which argues that sentences like “John is too rich for the monastery to hire ___,” dubbed gapped degree phrases, contain an instance of null-operator movement identical to the null operators which arguably appear (Chomsky 1986, Nissenbaum 2000) in parasitic gap constructions like “Who did the monastery hire without talking to ___?”). Since gapped degree phrases, unlike their parasitic gap counterparts, don’t appear dependent on a prior instance of A-bar movement, this sort of construction at first appears at odds with a null operator analysis. In fact however, N&S claim that exactly this kind of structure is predicted by Nissenbaum’s (2000) analysis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Ruth Brillman Date\/Time: Friday, 13 September, 1 pm Location: 32-D831 Topic: Parasitic Degree Phrases (Nissenbaum & Schwarz 2011) I’ll discuss Nissenbaum & Schwarz’s (2011) Natural Language Semantics paper “Parasitic Degree Phrases” (available here), which argues that sentences like “John is too rich for the monastery to hire ___,” dubbed gapped degree phrases, contain an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}