{"id":5877,"date":"2014-03-03T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2014-03-03T00:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:24:48","slug":"syntax-square-34-laura-grestenberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/03\/03\/syntax-square-34-laura-grestenberger\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 3\/4 - Laura Grestenberger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/grestenberger\/\">Laura Grestenberger<\/a> (Harvard)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Two voice mismatch puzzles in Sanskrit and Greek<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Tuesday, Mar 4, 1-2p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sanskrit and Greek both have binary voice systems in which active morphology alternatives with non-active (middle) morphology. In this talk I will present two problems in the morphosyntax of these languages, both of which concern exponence of voice morphology in unexpected syntactic environments (&#8220;voice mismatches&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The first one comes from deponent verbs, which take non-active morphology, but syntactically and semantically behave exactly like active agentive verbs. The second problem arises in contexts in which a distinct passive morpheme is available. Contrary to what is expected in standard approaches to Voice, this passive morpheme obligatorily co-occurs with middle morphology (Sanskrit) or active morphology (Greek). I propose that both puzzles can be solved by adopting an approach in which only active and middle are values of vP, while passive is a distinct functional head. In this approach, only passive is valency-changing, while active\/middle are sensitive to their syntactic environment but do not operate on it.  I will show that this predicts the distribution of active and middle morphology in languages like Sanskrit and Greek, as well as where potential mismatches can occur.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Laura Grestenberger (Harvard) Title: Two voice mismatch puzzles in Sanskrit and Greek Date\/Time: Tuesday, Mar 4, 1-2p Location: 32-D461 Sanskrit and Greek both have binary voice systems in which active morphology alternatives with non-active (middle) morphology. In this talk I will present two problems in the morphosyntax of these languages, both of which concern [&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-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","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=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}