{"id":8850,"date":"2016-10-17T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2016-10-17T07:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T11:34:56","slug":"syntax-square-1017-nico-baier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/17\/syntax-square-1017-nico-baier\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/17 - Nico Baier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/~nbbaier\/\">Nico Baier<\/a><\/strong> (UC Berkeley)<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Title: <em>Unifying Anti-Agreement and Wh-Agreement<\/em><br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 17, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Location: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In many languages, phi-agreement is sensitive to the A&#8217;-movement of its controller. Some languages, such as Abaza, exhibit &#8216;wh-agreement&#8217;, an effect in which dedicated agreement morphology cross-references extracted arguments (Chung and Georgopoulos 1988). In other languages, such as Tarifit Berber, extracted arguments cannot control full agreement. This is known as &#8216;anti-agreement&#8217; (Ouhalla 1993). These two effects have previously been treated as distinct. Wh-agreement is viewed as normal result of Agree with a goal bearing a wh-feature (Georgopoulos 1991, Watanabe 1996, a.o.). Anti-agreement is generally taken to reflect a disruption of agreement in the syntax proper (Schneider-Zioga 2007, Ouhalla 1993, a.o.). In this paper, I argue that this traditional wisdom is incorrect and that wh-agreement and anti-agreement are in fact two instantiations of the same phenomenon. Both effects are the result of a phi-probe copying both phi- and wh-features from a goal. Patterns of anti-agreement and wh-agreement arise when partial or total impoverishment applies to the [phi+wh] feature bundle in the morphological component, blocking insertion of an otherwise appropriate, more highly specified agreement exponent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Nico Baier (UC Berkeley) Title: Unifying Anti-Agreement and Wh-Agreement Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 17, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In many languages, phi-agreement is sensitive to the A&#8217;-movement of its controller. Some languages, such as Abaza, exhibit &#8216;wh-agreement&#8217;, an effect in which dedicated agreement morphology cross-references extracted arguments (Chung and Georgopoulos 1988). In other languages, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}