{"id":5394,"date":"2013-09-23T05:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2013-09-23T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:22:19","slug":"syntax-square-924-sam-steddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/09\/23\/syntax-square-924-sam-steddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 9\/24 - Sam Steddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sam Steddy<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The syntax of distributive and collective pluralities<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, Sept 24, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nI argue that distributivity, over collectivity, is a linguistic primitive. DPs which convey some plurality, whether transparently (&#8220;the cats&#8221;) or obliquely (&#8220;the team&#8221;), may be \u0091distributivised\u0092 by a syntactic head \u0091#\u0092, merged at the top layer of their DP, which acts as a plural goal for morphological agreement. I will present a number of \u0091agreement mismatches\u0092 that show that # is not solely a semantic operator but has an influence on syntax. The optionality of merging #, combined with LF-raising operations creates nuanced semantic interpretations. Finally, #\u0092s phonology will also be shown to cause the different agreement of British and USA English.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sam Steddy Title: The syntax of distributive and collective pluralities Date\/Time: Tuesday, Sept 24, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 I argue that distributivity, over collectivity, is a linguistic primitive. DPs which convey some plurality, whether transparently (&#8220;the cats&#8221;) or obliquely (&#8220;the team&#8221;), may be \u0091distributivised\u0092 by a syntactic head \u0091#\u0092, merged at the top layer of [&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-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","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=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}