{"id":7929,"date":"2015-12-14T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T09:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2015-12-14T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T14:32:25","slug":"syntax-square-1215-jeremy-hartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/12\/14\/syntax-square-1215-jeremy-hartman\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/15 - Jeremy Hartman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/hartman\/\"><strong>Jeremy Hartman<\/strong><\/a> (UMass)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: What is this construction, that we should be puzzled by it?<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Tuesday, December 15th<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 10:00am-11:00am<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will discuss the construction exemplified below, where a wh-question is followed by a gapless subordinate clause:<\/p>\n<p>a.  What were you doing, that you couldn\u0092t come help me?<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n            b.  Where is he from, that he talks like that?<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n            c.  Who are you, to make that demand?<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n            d.  What did she do, that everyone is so mad at her?<\/p>\n<p>A puzzling fact about such sentences is that their declarative counterparts appear to be ungrammatical (*He is from Texas, that he talks like that, *I was on the phone, that I couldn&#8217;t come help you).  Sentences like these have not, to my knowledge, received a detailed analysis in the syntactic literature. I will offer some preliminary observations about their syntactic properties, their meaning, and their relationship to other syntactic phenomena, including degree constructions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jeremy Hartman (UMass) Title: What is this construction, that we should be puzzled by it? Date: Tuesday, December 15th Time: 10:00am-11:00am Place: 32-D461 I will discuss the construction exemplified below, where a wh-question is followed by a gapless subordinate clause: a. What were you doing, that you couldn\u0092t come help me? b. Where is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}