{"id":9116,"date":"2016-12-05T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2016-12-05T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:04:15","slug":"linglunch128jennekevanderwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/12\/05\/linglunch128jennekevanderwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 12\/8 - Jenneke Van Der Wal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennekevanderwal.nl\/\"><strong>Jenneke van der Wal<\/strong><\/a> (Harvard)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>The AWSOM and RANDOM in Bantu object marking<\/em><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Thursday, December 8\/12:30pm-1:50pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many Bantu languages mark objects on the verb by a prefix agreeing in noun class:<\/p>\n<p>(1) N-a-va-et-eaa anca mUhUmba. [Nyaturu, Hualde 1989]<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n1SG.SM-PAST-2OM-bring-APPL 2.girls 1.boy<\/br><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I brought the girls a boy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, object marking (OM) shows fascinating microvariation across Bantu, along the following parameters:<\/p>\n<p>\n1. the nature of the OM: doubling \/ non-doubling<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(OM and DP can co-occur in the same domain in Nyaturu = doubling);<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n2. the behaviour in ditransitives: asymmetric \/ symmetric<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(only benefactive and not theme can be OM-ed in Nyaturu = asymmetric);<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n3. the number of object markers allowed: one\/two\/multiple<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(Nyaturu is restricted to one).<\/br><\/p>\n<p>This talk maps the parameter settings of 50+ Bantu languages, revealing two gaps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asymmetry Wants Single Object Marking correlation (AWSOM)<\/strong><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n? Almost no language has multiple markers that are doubling.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Relation between Asymmetry and Non-Doubling Object Marking (RANDOM)<\/strong><\/br><\/p>\n<p>? No language has non-doubling asymmetrical object marking.<\/p>\n<p>I argue that these gaps are in fact not random, but can be understood as obligatory marking of salience, in the form of a [Person] feature in either the non-clausal domain (doubling) or the clausal domain (symmetry)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(The abstract can also be read <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/abstractvanderwallinglunch16.pdf\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jenneke van der Wal (Harvard) Title: The AWSOM and RANDOM in Bantu object marking Time: Thursday, December 8\/12:30pm-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Many Bantu languages mark objects on the verb by a prefix agreeing in noun class: (1) N-a-va-et-eaa anca mUhUmba. [Nyaturu, Hualde 1989] 1SG.SM-PAST-2OM-bring-APPL 2.girls 1.boy &#8216;I brought the girls a boy.&#8217; However, object [&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-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","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=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}