{"id":9475,"date":"2017-02-27T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9475"},"modified":"2017-02-26T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:55:43","slug":"syntax-square-228-abdul-razak-sulemana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/02\/27\/syntax-square-228-abdul-razak-sulemana\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 2\/28 - Abdul-Razak Sulemana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/abdulraz\/\">Abdul-Razak Sulemana<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: evidence from B\u00f9l\u00ec<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Tuesday February 28, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is a well known fact that wh-questions in many languages may contain an in-situ wh-phrase. The nature of this wh-phrase, however, has been a contentious issue in the literature. While some have argued that the in-situ wh-phrase undergoes covert movement at LF (Aoun, Hornstein, and Sportiche, 1981; Huang, 1982; Nishigauchi, 1990; Pesetsky, 2000, Richards, 1997; 2000; Nissenbaum, 2000; Cable, 2007; 2010; Kotek, 2014; 2016), others have argued against this view (Watanabe 1992; Chomsky 1995; Reinhart 1998). A well-known puzzle for proponents of covert movement are the apparent differences in island-sensitivity between overt and covert movement \u0097 leading Huang (1982), for example, to propose that island-sensitivity is a property of S-structure or PF but not LF.  The goal of this paper is to show that wh-questions in B\u00f9l\u00ec provide strong arguments for covert movement of wh-in situ that eliminate the need to posit any overt\/covert differences in island-sensitivity cross-linguistically.  The key to this demonstration is the distribution of an overt Q-marker in B\u00f9l\u00ec, and B\u00f9l\u00ec&#8217;s status as an in-situ language. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Abdul-Razak Sulemana (MIT) Title: Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: evidence from B\u00f9l\u00ec Date and time: Tuesday February 28, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: It is a well known fact that wh-questions in many languages may contain an in-situ wh-phrase. The nature of this wh-phrase, however, has been a contentious issue in the literature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9475\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}