{"id":7808,"date":"2015-11-02T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2015-11-02T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:19:10","slug":"7808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/11\/02\/7808\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/3 - Nico Baier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~nbbaier\/\">Nico Baier (Berkeley)<\/a><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Deriving Anti-Agreement in Berber<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Tuesday, November 3rd<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 10:00am-11:00am<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This presentation examines anti-agreement (Ouhalla 1993), an effect whereby the normal agreement pattern with an argument in a specific position is disrupted when that position is ?-bound, in Berber. I argue that verbal agreement in Berber is pronominal, and that anti-agreement arises from a need to avoid a weak crossover violation that would occur when a subject is ?-extracted from its base position in Spec-vP. I show that when combined with Erlewine\u0092s (2014) Spec-to-Spec Anti-locality constraint, this theory correctly predicts the distribution of anti-agreement in Berber.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Nico Baier (Berkeley) Title: Deriving Anti-Agreement in Berber Date: Tuesday, November 3rd Time: 10:00am-11:00am Place: 32-D461 This presentation examines anti-agreement (Ouhalla 1993), an effect whereby the normal agreement pattern with an argument in a specific position is disrupted when that position is ?-bound, in Berber. I argue that verbal agreement in Berber is pronominal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}