{"id":8992,"date":"2016-10-31T06:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2016-10-31T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T04:20:55","slug":"syntax-square-1031-chris-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/31\/syntax-square-1031-chris-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 10\/31 - Chris O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/obrienc\/\">Chris O&#8217;Brien<\/a><\/strong> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Title: Linearization and complete dominance: Deriving the right-edge restriction on RNR<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 31, 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 concerns two puzzles involving the multidominant analysis of right-node raising structures (McCawley 1982, Wilder 1999, Bachrach & Katzir 2015, a.o.). The first is how such structures can be assigned a well-formed linear ordering at PF. Following Wilder (1999), I argue that this is because linearization of multi-dominant structures is sensitive to complete dominance. That is, when one phrase A is ordered before a phrase B, everything completely dominated by A must be ordered before everything completely dominated by B.  <\/p>\n<p>The second puzzle concerns the \u0093right-edge restriction\u0094 on RNR structures (Wilder 1999, Bachrach & Katzir 2015). It turns out that, while the pivot of an RNR structure may appear in a non-rightmost position within the final conjunct, it must be merged in the rightmost position of of each non-final conjunct.  My proposal depends on one crucial property of complete dominance: The notion that x completely dominates y must be defined with respect to some larger structure (or set of structures). I argue that linearization is computed compositionally at each step in the derivation. For any phrase A = Merge(B, C) , where some linear precedence rule  says that B < C, then all terminal nodes which are completely dominated by B within A will be required to precede all nodes completely dominated by C within A. This turns out to derive the right-edge restriction.  I end with discussion of some recalcitrant problems involving internal merge structures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Chris O&#8217;Brien (MIT) Title: Linearization and complete dominance: Deriving the right-edge restriction on RNR Date\/Time: Monday, Oct. 31, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk concerns two puzzles involving the multidominant analysis of right-node raising structures (McCawley 1982, Wilder 1999, Bachrach &#038; Katzir 2015, a.o.). The first is how such structures can be assigned a [&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-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}