{"id":9419,"date":"2017-02-21T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:49:12","slug":"ling-lunch-223-zheng-shen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/02\/21\/ling-lunch-223-zheng-shen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 2\/23 - Zheng Shen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/zheng-shen.grad.uconn.edu\/\">Zheng Shen<\/a> (UConn)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Multi-Valuation and the Agreement Hierarchy<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Day:<\/strong> Thursday, February 23<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 12:45pm&#8212;1:50 <em>[please note the different time]<\/em><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk I present arguments for treating cross-linguistic agreement patterns of multi-valuation (Shen to appear) as an instantiation of the Agreement Hierarchy (Corbett 1979).<\/p>\n<p>The nominal right node raising construction in (1) has been argued to involve a single probe that is valued by multiple goals; that is, it involves multi-valuation. In contrast to the multi-valued N in (1), a T node that&#8217;s valued by two singular features can be spelled out as plural in summative agreement in (2) (Grosz 2015). Thus there is an asymmetry between multi-valued N and multi-valued T which remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>(1) This tall and that short student(*s) are a couple.<\/p>\n<p>(2) [Sue\u0092s proud that Bill __ ] and [Mary\u0092s glad that John __ ] have\/has traveled to Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>I argue that this asymmetry is an instantiation of the Agreement Hierarchy (Corbett 1979 et sq, Smith 2015). Cross-linguistically, three out of the four logically possible patterns of multi-valued Ns and Ts are attested (3), parallel to the original Agreement Hierarchy observed for collective nouns. I will discuss other positive consequences of this proposal, in particular regarding the agreement patterns of multi-valued adjectives and determiners reported in King and Dalrymple 2004.<\/p>\n<p>(3) <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Multi-valued N<\/th>\n<th>Multi-valued T<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Croatian<\/td>\n<td>singular<\/td>\n<td>singular<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>English<\/td>\n<td>singular<\/td>\n<td>plural<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Russian<\/td>\n<td>plural<\/td>\n<td>plural<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>unattested<\/td>\n<td>plural<\/td>\n<td>singular<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Zheng Shen (UConn) Title: Multi-Valuation and the Agreement Hierarchy Day: Thursday, February 23 Time: 12:45pm&#8212;1:50 [please note the different time] Abstract: In this talk I present arguments for treating cross-linguistic agreement patterns of multi-valuation (Shen to appear) as an instantiation of the Agreement Hierarchy (Corbett 1979). The nominal right node raising construction in (1) [&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-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","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=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}