{"id":544,"date":"2009-03-02T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-02-28T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:21:42","slug":"talk-33-530pm-asaf-bachrach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/03\/02\/talk-33-530pm-asaf-bachrach\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk 3\/3 5:30pm - Asaf Bachrach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Asaf Bachrach<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Syntactic Sharing and Semantic Interpretation<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 5:30-7pm, 32-D831<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn recent minimalist literature, transformations (Move) have been<br clear='none'\/>\nre-conceptualized as iterative applications of the basic syntactic operation<br clear='none'\/>\nMerge. We will begin by adapting Heim and Kratzer&#8217;s (1998) semantic treatment<br clear='none'\/>\nof movement in light of this new state of affairs. We will then propose a<br clear='none'\/>\ngeneralization of the movement interpretation  rule that can handle cases of<br clear='none'\/>\nmultidominance other than the canonical movement configuration. Finally we will<br clear='none'\/>\npropose a modified and  generalized Predicate Composition and Modification rule<br clear='none'\/>\nwhich will  also depend on syntactic sharing. These new rules will provide an<br clear='none'\/>\noriginal insight into a number of well known syntactic and semantic puzzles<br clear='none'\/>\nsuch as extraposition, ECM, object control, small clauses and complex causative<br clear='none'\/>\nconstructions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Work in progress with Roni Katzir)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Asaf Bachrach Title: Syntactic Sharing and Semantic Interpretation Time: 5:30-7pm, 32-D831 In recent minimalist literature, transformations (Move) have been re-conceptualized as iterative applications of the basic syntactic operation Merge. We will begin by adapting Heim and Kratzer&#8217;s (1998) semantic treatment of movement in light of this new state of affairs. We will then propose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}