{"id":5588,"date":"2013-11-18T05:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T04:23:40","slug":"syntax-square-1119-ruth-brillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2013\/11\/18\/syntax-square-1119-ruth-brillman\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/19 - Ruth Brillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ruth Brillman<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Too tough to see<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, Nov 19, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThis talk argues for a deep syntactic similarity between gapped degree phrases (GDPs) and tough-constructions (TCs).  Building on novel observations as well as previous findings (Akmajian 1972, a.o.), I argue that GDPs contain a tough-movement structure within them, plus an additional layer of syntactic structure particular to GDPs.  I argue that TCs, and the TC core within GDPs, involve both an A-step and an A-bar step (cf. Hicks 2007, Hartman 2012).  This explains the syntactic and semantic similarities and differences, between the two constructions.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ruth Brillman Title: Too tough to see Date\/Time: Tuesday, Nov 19, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 This talk argues for a deep syntactic similarity between gapped degree phrases (GDPs) and tough-constructions (TCs). Building on novel observations as well as previous findings (Akmajian 1972, a.o.), I argue that GDPs contain a tough-movement structure within them, plus an [&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-5588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588","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=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}