{"id":8914,"date":"2016-10-24T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T02:18:13","slug":"syntax-square-1024-michelle-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/24\/syntax-square-1024-michelle-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/24 - Michelle Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/yuanm\/www\/\">Michelle Yuan<\/a><\/strong> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Title: Movement, doubling, and selection in Inuktitut noun incorporation<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 24, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Location: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This talk presents ongoing work on noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Unlike languages with &#8216;classical&#8217; noun incorporation (e.g. Mohawk), noun incorporation in Inuktitut is obligatory with a small class of verbs and is otherwise impossible with all other verbs (Sadock 1985, Johns 2007). It is standardly thought that this obligatoriness is motivated by wellformedness requirements on word-formation, though analyses vary in how exactly incorporation takes place (Johns 2007, Compton & Pittman 2010). In this talk, I discuss a number of additional, underanalyzed properties of Inuktitut noun incorporation that somewhat complicate the picture. These data suggest that incorporation may take place in some cases by movement, and other cases by base-generating the nominal at the incorporation site. In the latter cases, we find that the incorporated nominal may co-occur with an independent (non-identical) direct object. I suggest that incorporation in Inuktitut\u0097whether by External or Internal Merge\u0097involves Undermerge to the incorporating verb in <em>v<\/em>0 (Merge to complement position; Pesetsky 2007, 2013), and is moreover sensitive to the selectional requirements of v0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Michelle Yuan (MIT) Title: Movement, doubling, and selection in Inuktitut noun incorporation Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 24, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk presents ongoing work on noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Unlike languages with &#8216;classical&#8217; noun incorporation (e.g. Mohawk), noun incorporation in Inuktitut is obligatory with a small class of verbs and is otherwise impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}