{"id":6085,"date":"2014-04-22T05:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T09:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2014-04-22T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:29:58","slug":"lfrg-424-benjamin-storme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/04\/22\/lfrg-424-benjamin-storme\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/24 - Benjamin Storme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Benjamin Storme
\nTitle: Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 45
\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Apr 24, 5:30-7p
\nLocation: 32-D831<\/p>\n

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In this talk, I will propose a model deriving Greenberg’s universal 45 about the interaction of gender and number in third person pronouns. <\/p>\n

(1) Greenberg’s universal 45: If there are any gender distinctions in the plural of the pronoun, there are some gender distinctions in the singular also. <\/p>\n

The general idea will be that, lexicon size being equal, a lexicon with more gender distinctions in the singular is more efficient in terms of anaphora resolution than a lexicon with more distinctions in the plural, because of the higher frequency of use of singular pronouns. The specific proposal will be implemented using a grammar generating pronoun meanings with gender presuppositions and a harmonic grammar regulating the mappings from those meanings to lexicons via two constraints (“Minimize lexicon size” and “Maximize the number of correct anaphora resolutions”). Finally, I will discuss possible extensions of this model to treat grammatical gender in addition to semantic gender, to deal with mixed-gender pronouns (they seem to be rare cross-linguistically), and to derive the primitive gender predicates. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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