{"id":8772,"date":"2016-10-03T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:34:29","slug":"ling-lunch-106-omer-demirok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/03\/ling-lunch-106-omer-demirok\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 10\/6 \u0097 \u00d6mer Demirok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/demirok\/\">\u00d6mer Demirok<\/a><\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: <em>Free Relatives and Correlatives in Wh-in-situ<\/em> [practice talk]<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Thursday, October 6<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 12:30pm-1:50pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In English (and many other languages), a wh-structure as in (1) can be construed as a free relative or as an interrogative complement. Cecchetto and Donati (2015) refer to this phenomenon as labeling ambiguity and predict that this sort of ambiguity is precluded in wh-in-situ languages, as illustrated in the hypothetical example in (2). This prediction is borne out in many wh-in-situ languages (e.g. Turkish, Laz). However, Polinsky (2015) shows that Tsez has wh-FRs with the pattern in (2).<\/p>\n<p>(1) Sue knows\/ate [<strong>what John cooked<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>(2) \u0093Sue knows\/*ate [John cooked <strong>what<\/strong>]\u0094<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I propose a semantic typology for interrogative pronouns that can predict whether a given wh-in-situ language will necessarily lack wh-FRs or not (under the compositional analysis of FRs in Caponigro 2004). In particular, I make the prediction that wh-in-situ languages that compose wh-questions via Hamblin alternatives will necessarily lack wh-FRs (as the composition of a wh-question will not generate a semantic predicate) whereas wh-in-situ languages that rely on covert movement to compose their questions may have wh-FRs. Using intervention effects and island-sensitivity as diagnostics, I show that this prediction holds.<\/p>\n<p>In the second part of the talk, I address the question why some wh-in-situ languages (e.g. Turkish, Laz) have the distribution in (3). A relativization-based analysis of wh-correlatives (3b) in genuinely wh-in-situ languages would constitute a counterexample to my proposal. However, I show that there is in fact evidence in favor of a question-based semantic composition for (3b) (Rawlins, 2013, Hirsch 2015), as would be expected under the proposed typology.<\/p>\n<p>(3) a. * \u0093Sue eats [John cooks <strong>what<\/strong>]\u0094 (in-situ wh-FR)<\/p>\n<p>b. OK \u0093John cooks <strong>what<\/strong>, Sue eats <strong>that<\/strong>\u0094 (in-situ wh-correlative)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: \u00d6mer Demirok (MIT) Title: Free Relatives and Correlatives in Wh-in-situ [practice talk] Date: Thursday, October 6 Time: 12:30pm-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In English (and many other languages), a wh-structure as in (1) can be construed as a free relative or as an interrogative complement. Cecchetto and Donati (2015) refer to this phenomenon as labeling [&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-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","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=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}