{"id":9097,"date":"2016-11-28T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2016-11-27T23:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T03:08:50","slug":"syntax-square-1127-kenyon-branan-abdul-razak-sulemana-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/11\/28\/syntax-square-1127-kenyon-branan-abdul-razak-sulemana-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/27 - Kenyon Branan &#038; Abdul-Razak Sulemana (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kbranan.scripts.mit.edu\/\">Kenyon Branan<\/a><\/strong> & <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/abdulraz\/\">Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/a><\/strong> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Title: Against strength and weakness: Contiguity in B\u00f9l\u00ec<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Time\/date: Monday, November 28, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Location: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Optionality in ?-movement has been modeled as the optional presence of a strong feature on C, requiring the wh-phrase it Agrees with to move to its specifier. Recent work [Richards (2016)] models optionality in ?-movement as true optionality, so long as the choice of movement or not satisfies a condition on prosodic representations, called Contiguity. In this talk, I present novel data from Buli, a Gur language spoken primarily in Ghana, that provides a strong argument for the latter view of optionality. In Buli, wh-phrases may remain in-situ, so long as they are not separated from end of the sentence by a prosodic boundary of any sort. This restriction on wh-in-situ is explained straightforwardly given the Contiguity-theoretic approach, but would require the introduction of an additional constraint on prosodic representations under the \u0093optional feature\u0094 approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Kenyon Branan &#038; Abdul-Razak Sulemana (MIT) Title: Against strength and weakness: Contiguity in B\u00f9l\u00ec Time\/date: Monday, November 28, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Optionality in ?-movement has been modeled as the optional presence of a strong feature on C, requiring the wh-phrase it Agrees with to move to its specifier. Recent work [Richards (2016)] models [&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-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","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=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}