{"id":6083,"date":"2014-04-22T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2014-04-22T04:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T08:19:15","slug":"colloquium-425-richard-kayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/04\/22\/colloquium-425-richard-kayne\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 4\/25 - Richard Kayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.as.nyu.edu\/object\/RichardSKayne.html\">Richard Kayne<\/a> (NYU)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The Silence of Projecting Heads<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Friday, Apr 25, 3:30-5p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Examination of sentence-final particles, complementizers, up\/down-type particles, modal<br clear='none'\/>\nelements like &#8216;need&#8217;, the nominal character of agreement morphemes, aspect, tense, adjectives<br clear='none'\/>\nand adverbs, determiners, adpositions, focus and topic, derivational suffixes and light verbs<br clear='none'\/>\nleads to the conclusion that a preponderance of projecting syntactic heads are silent.<\/p>\n<p> I suggest that we understand this to reflect the simpler fact that all syntactically projecting<br clear='none'\/>\nheads are silent.  That simpler fact derives in turn from the fact that, for reasons having to do<br clear='none'\/>\nwith the systematic antisymmetry-based association of Merge with temporal order,<br clear='none'\/>\nphonological material cannot be bundled together with a syntactic feature in a single node.<\/p>\n<p> If so, then temporal order must be part of core syntax, as is suggested in any case by<br clear='none'\/>\ncross-linguistic asymmetries concerning backwards pronominalization that feed into<br clear='none'\/>\ninterpretation.<\/p>\n<p>The antisymmetry-based prohibition against feature-bundling simultaneouly has as a<br clear='none'\/>\nconsequence the decompositionality principle of Kayne (2005).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Richard Kayne (NYU) Title: The Silence of Projecting Heads Date\/Time: Friday, Apr 25, 3:30-5p Location: 32-141 Examination of sentence-final particles, complementizers, up\/down-type particles, modal elements like &#8216;need&#8217;, the nominal character of agreement morphemes, aspect, tense, adjectives and adverbs, determiners, adpositions, focus and topic, derivational suffixes and light verbs leads to the conclusion that a [&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-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","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=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}