{"id":8118,"date":"2016-03-07T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2016-03-06T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T22:56:36","slug":"ling-lunch-310-amanda-swenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/03\/07\/ling-lunch-310-amanda-swenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 3\/10 - Amanda Swenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong> Amanda Swenson <\/strong>(MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle:  A Semantics for Malayalam Conjunctive Participles Constructions <\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, March 10th, 12:30-1:45 pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAmritavalli & Jayaseelan (2005), Hany Babu & Madhavan (2003), a.o. raise the question of whether the traditional tense morphemes should be reanalyzed as aspect in Malayalam, making Malayalam a tenseless language. Conjunctive Participle\/Serial Verb Constructions, (1), play a central role in this debate.<\/p>\n<p> (1) a. njaan oru maanga pootticch-u thinn-u<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n                     I        one mango   pluck-U\/I    eat-PAST<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n                    \u0091I plucked and ate a mango.\u0092 (Amritavalli & Jayaseelan 2005 p199: 37a)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n                b. mani avan-te katha karanj-u paranj-u.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n                   Mani he-GEN tale cry-U\/I    tell-PAST<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n                  \u0091Weeping, Mani told his tale.\u0092 (Gopalkrishnan 1985 p18: 8)\n<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I assume, following Hany Babu & Madhavan (2003) and Asher & Kumari (1997) a.o., that the \u0096u\/i marker in Conjunctive Participles (`non-main verbs\u0092) has a distinct temporal analysis from that of main verbs.  In main verbs, \u0096u\/i is a past tense marker and in non-main verbs it is a semantically vacuous, frozen form (cf. Jayaseelan 2003).  I propose an account for the way multi-verb constructions are temporally interpreted based on Stump (1985), thereby removing an argument for the claim that Malayalam is a tenseless language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Amanda Swenson (MIT) Title: A Semantics for Malayalam Conjunctive Participles Constructions Time: Thursday, March 10th, 12:30-1:45 pm Place: 32-D461 Amritavalli &#038; Jayaseelan (2005), Hany Babu &#038; Madhavan (2003), a.o. raise the question of whether the traditional tense morphemes should be reanalyzed as aspect in Malayalam, making Malayalam a tenseless language. Conjunctive Participle\/Serial Verb Constructions, [&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-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","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=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}