{"id":5901,"date":"2014-03-10T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2014-03-10T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:52:22","slug":"colloquium-314-marcel-den-dikken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/03\/10\/colloquium-314-marcel-den-dikken\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 3\/14 - Marcel den Dikken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gc.cuny.edu\/Page-Elements\/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives\/Doctoral-Programs\/Linguistics\/Faculty-Bios\/Marcel-den-Dikken\">Marcel den Dikken<\/a> (CUNY Graduate Center)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The attractions of agreement<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Friday, Mar 14, 3:30-5p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please see the full abstract <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/den_Dikken_abstract.pdf\">here (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Agreement in specificational copular sentences is a complex matter, empirically as well as theoretically.<br clear='none'\/>\nPatterns that are attested are often not easy to make fall out from a restrictive theory of Agree relations;<br clear='none'\/>\npatterns that are not attested would sometimes seem hard to exclude. In this paper, I will try my hand at coming to terms with a number of prima facie problematic ?-feature agreement patterns in specificational copular<br clear='none'\/>\nsentences, with particular emphasis on pseudoclefts and their close relatives (though double-NP specificational copular sentences will also be addressed).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center) Title: The attractions of agreement Date\/Time: Friday, Mar 14, 3:30-5p Location: 32-141 Please see the full abstract here (pdf). Agreement in specificational copular sentences is a complex matter, empirically as well as theoretically. Patterns that are attested are often not easy to make fall out from a restrictive [&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-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}