{"id":6368,"date":"2014-09-15T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2014-09-14T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:03:42","slug":"colloquium-0918-jim-mccloskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/09\/15\/colloquium-0918-jim-mccloskey\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 09\/18 - Jim McCloskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/ohlone.ucsc.edu\/~jim\/\">Jim McCloskey<\/a> (UCSC) <br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Phasehood, the Maximal Verbal Projection and Preverbs in Irish<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, September 18th, 5:15-6:45 pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 34-101<\/p>\n<p>Please note the special time, date and place for this talk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in<br clear='none'\/>\n syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of<br clear='none'\/>\n  that relation was fundamentally re-thought in work of the 1990&#8217;s. This<br clear='none'\/>\n  paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking, by<br clear='none'\/>\n  looking closely at the expression of the direct object relation in<br clear='none'\/>\n  Irish (infinitival) clauses.  It focuses in particular on what is to<br clear='none'\/>\n  be learned from an intricate pattern of dialectal, idiolectal, and<br clear='none'\/>\n  generational variation which, it is claimed, sheds light on how we<br clear='none'\/>\n  should understand `Burzio&#8217;s Generalization&#8217;, which is itself a central<br clear='none'\/>\n  aspect of theories of objecthood which derive from Government Binding<br clear='none'\/>\n  Theory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jim McCloskey (UCSC) Title: Phasehood, the Maximal Verbal Projection and Preverbs in Irish Date\/Time: Thursday, September 18th, 5:15-6:45 pm Location: 34-101 Please note the special time, date and place for this talk. The direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}