{"id":8507,"date":"2016-09-06T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2016-09-05T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T00:06:52","slug":"first-linglunch-of-fall2016-michael-yoshitaka-erlewine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/09\/06\/first-linglunch-of-fall2016-michael-yoshitaka-erlewine\/","title":{"rendered":"First LingLunch of Fall\/2016 - Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/mitcho.com\/\"><strong>Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine<\/strong><\/a> (National University of Singapore)<\/li>\n<li>Title: &#8216;C-T head-splitting: Evidence from Toba Batak&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Date and time: September 8 (Thursday), 12:30pm-1:50pm<\/li>\n<li>Location: 32-D461<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>I present new work on extraction and voice in Toba Batak, an Austronesian language of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Recent work has proposed a tight coupling between the traditional heads of C and T. I argue that patterns of multiple extraction in Toba Batak support the C-T head-splitting hypothesis\u0097the idea that C and T begin as a single CT head and can split (Martinovi?, 2015). Although Batak has been previously described as only allowing extraction of one constituent at a time (Cole &amp; Hermon 2008), I show that the simultaneous extraction of two constituents is possible, in very limited combinations. Exactly two patterns are possible: two DPs which are both formally focused (wh or with &#8216;only\u0092) or a focused non-DP followed by a non-focused DP. I propose that C and T first try to probe together (as CT) for the joint satisfaction of their probes (focus and D features); if this fails, CT splits into C and T, which probe separately. This hypothesis is supported by the distribution of the particle <em>na<\/em> in two internally-consistent ideolects, which provides overt morphological support for the CT head-splitting view. I also discuss lessons for the analysis of Austronesian voice systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore) Title: &#8216;C-T head-splitting: Evidence from Toba Batak&#8217; Date and time: September 8 (Thursday), 12:30pm-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 I present new work on extraction and voice in Toba Batak, an Austronesian language of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Recent work has proposed a tight coupling between the traditional heads of C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8600,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}