{"id":9690,"date":"2017-04-03T06:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2017-04-02T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:55:57","slug":"lfrg-45-colin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/04\/03\/lfrg-45-colin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/5 - Colin Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/colinpbdavis\/\">Colin Davis<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> English possessor extraction and LF pied-piping<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday April 5, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The colloquial speech of many English speakers permits what looks like possessor extraction, which A&#8217;-moves a possessor (1) without pied-piping the rest of the DP (2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. Who do they think [[_\u0092s fat cat] is cute]? (Possessor extraction)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. [Whose fat cat] do they think [_ is cute]? (Standard pied-piping)<\/p>\n<p>This movement is interesting in light of the fact that English is a language that otherwise obeys the Left Branch Condition (Ross 1967), which describes a lack of extraction of the leftmost constituent of a nominal phrase. I argue that despite appearances, the possessum is in fact covertly pied-piped in (1), meaning that there really is no Left Branch Condition exception here. Some evidence for this comes from parasitic gaps, where a possessum stranded in an embedded clause can bind a parasitic gap in the matrix clause, as in (3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">3. [Who did you say[_&#8217;s haircut is awful] despite wanting help from PG]?<\/p>\n<p>If <i>who<\/i> moved alone and didn&#8217;t carry <i>haircut<\/i> into the matrix clause, we expect the PG to be bound by who and so refer to a person. If there was full pied-piping we predict whose haircut to bind the PG, giving a silly reading where you want help from a haircut. By the judgments of most speakers, it turns out that the silly reading is the most salient for sentences like this, with the non-silly reading being absent or difficult. Importantly, we only expect the silly reading to be available if the possessum was covertly pied-piped, binding the PG. von Stechow (1996) argues against Nishigauchi (1990), saying that covert pied-piping does not exist, or at least is not interpreted. In (3), covert pied-piping is interpreted. I also apply the logic of covert pied-piping to sluicing in answers to possessor-extracting questions, and some puzzles regarding free relatives, which don&#8217;t pattern as expected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Colin Davis (MIT) Title: English possessor extraction and LF pied-piping Date and time: Wednesday April 5, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: The colloquial speech of many English speakers permits what looks like possessor extraction, which A&#8217;-moves a possessor (1) without pied-piping the rest of the DP (2). 1. Who do they think [[_\u0092s fat cat] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}