{"id":9673,"date":"2017-04-03T06:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2017-04-02T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:55:27","slug":"syntax-square-44-colin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/04\/03\/syntax-square-44-colin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 4\/4 - Colin Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker:<\/strong> Colin Davis<\/a> (MIT)
\nTitle:<\/strong> English Possessor Extraction, Pied-piping, and Cyclic Linearization
\nDate and time:<\/strong> Tuesday April 4, 1-2pm
\nLocation<\/strong>: 32-D461
\nAbstract<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

In my previous syntax square, I introduced possessor extraction in English. This essentially undocumented possibility in colloquial speech stands in contrast to canonical pied-piping wh-movement of possessors in English.<\/p>\n

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  1. Who<\/strong> do they say[[_’s cat]<\/strong> is cute]? (Possessor extraction)<\/li>\n
  2. [Whose cat]<\/strong> do they say [_<\/strong> is cute]? (Pied-piping)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    English possessor extraction cannot happen all the time, however. In this talk, I go on to analyze the phenomenon’s restrictions. For example, non-subject DPs must be pied-piped to the edge of their clause for PE out of them to be licit, producing a unique instance of partial pied-piping. In a very general sense, pied-piping to an intermediate position provides a nice piece of overt evidence for successive-cyclic movement through intermediate specifiers of CP.<\/p>\n

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    1. *Who<\/strong> do they think [John likes [_’s cake]<\/strong>]? (No PE from object in-situ)<\/li>\n
    2. Who<\/strong> do they think[[_’s cake]<\/strong> John likes _<\/strong>]? (PE from pied-piped object)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I argue that this pied-piping and a number of other details result from an adjacency condition between possessor and the saxon genitive (cf. Gavruseva & Thornton 2001) which interacts with phase-by-phase linearization of syntactic structure (Fox & Pesetsky 2005, Ko 2005, 2014). Along the way, this analysis finds a explanation for the fact that successive-cyclic movement through spec-vP cannot strand anything in English, a curious gap in the paradigm of McCloskeys’s all-stranding and true of P-stranding in English generally. This finding leads to a number of broader predictions about stranding and its interaction with movement and the nature of specifiers (cf. Ko). The interaction of English possessor extraction with existential constructions also leads to a novel argument from linearization that expletive there originates in vP (Biberauer & Richards 2005, Deal 2009).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Speaker: Colin Davis (MIT) Title: English Possessor Extraction, Pied-piping, and Cyclic Linearization Date and time: Tuesday April 4, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In my previous syntax square, I introduced possessor extraction in English. This essentially undocumented possibility in colloquial speech stands in contrast to canonical pied-piping wh-movement of possessors in English. Who do they say[[_’s […]<\/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-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","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=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}