{"id":9168,"date":"2016-12-12T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2016-12-11T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:55:52","slug":"syntax-square-1212-kenyon-branan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/12\/12\/syntax-square-1212-kenyon-branan\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 12\/12 - Kenyon Branan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/kbranan.scripts.mit.edu\/\"><strong>Kenyon Branan<\/strong><\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Title: Predicate fronting and copy pronunciation<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Time\/date: Monday, Dec. 12, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Location: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br clear='none'\/>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Predicate doubling&#8221; has been seen as a strong argument for copy theories of movement. However, it also poses a challenge for such theories, since they must explain why two copies of a fronted predicate are pronounced, but not two copies of a fronted nominal. In this talk, I&#8217;ll try to give a simple explanation of this difference between predicates and nominals, where an independent requirement on the syntax-prosody mapping overrides the usual requirement that multiple copies. After doing that, I&#8217;ll tell you about some other outcomes when you assume such a system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Kenyon Branan (MIT) Title: Predicate fronting and copy pronunciation Time\/date: Monday, Dec. 12, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: &#8220;Predicate doubling&#8221; has been seen as a strong argument for copy theories of movement. However, it also poses a challenge for such theories, since they must explain why two copies of a fronted predicate are pronounced, but [&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-9168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168","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=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}