{"id":709,"date":"2009-04-20T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=709"},"modified":"2009-04-20T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T22:36:10","slug":"ling-lunch-423-omer-preminger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2009\/04\/20\/ling-lunch-423-omer-preminger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch - 4\/23 - Omer Preminger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Omer Preminger<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Failure to Agree is Not a Failure: phi-agreement and (un)grammaticality<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thurs 4\/23, 12:30-1:45<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/map-jpg?mapterms=32-D461\">32-D461<\/a><BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>\tBased on the patterns of phi-agreement with post-verbal subjects in Hebrew, I argue against the idea that failure to establish a phi-agreement relation between a phi-probe and its putative target (e.g., due to intervention) results in ungrammaticality, or a &#8220;crash&#8221;; at the same time, I argue that phi-agreement also cannot be optional.<\/P><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>\tAt first glance, these claims&#8212;-that phi-agreement is neither optional, nor does its failure result in ungrammaticality&#8212;-might seem contradictory. However, I argue that there is a third possibility, which is in fact the only one that can account for the data under consideration: phi-agreement must be attempted by every phi-probe; but if it fails (e.g., due to the presence of an intervener), its failure is systematically tolerated.<\/P><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>\tInterestingly, this mirrors the behavior of the ruled-based systems of early generative grammar, where rules were composed of a Structural Description (SD) and a Structural Change (SC). In these terms, the effects of phi-agreement, as far as valuing the features on the phi-probe, could be thought of as the SC; the locality conditions associated with phi-agreement (incl. intervention) could be thought of as the SD.<\/P><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>\tFinally, I note that these result are in conflict with the idea that Case arises as a result of phi-agreement (e.g., as a result of valuing a full phi-set on a probe; Chomsky 2000, et seq.); I show independent evidence&#8212;-from empirical domains outside of the ones discussed above&#8212;-that a theory claiming that Case is dependent on phi-agreement is untenable. <\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Omer Preminger Title: Failure to Agree is Not a Failure: phi-agreement and (un)grammaticality Time: Thurs 4\/23, 12:30-1:45 Place: 32-D461 Based on the patterns of phi-agreement with post-verbal subjects in Hebrew, I argue against the idea that failure to establish a phi-agreement relation between a phi-probe and its putative target (e.g., due to intervention) results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}