{"id":9904,"date":"2017-05-08T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2017-05-07T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T20:01:20","slug":"mit-colloquium-512-rajesh-bhatt-umass-amherst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/08\/mit-colloquium-512-rajesh-bhatt-umass-amherst\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 5\/12 - Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.umass.edu\/bhatt\/\">Rajesh Bhatt<\/a> (UMass Amherst)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Polar Questions, Selection and Disjunction: clues from Hindi-Urdu &#8216;kyaa&#8217;<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Friday, May 12th, 3:30-5:00 pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> 32-155<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[joint work with Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers]<\/p>\n<p>Hindi-Urdu has an optional marker &#8216;kyaa&#8217; that appears in polar and alternative questions. We delineate its properties distinguishing from the homophonous thematic &#8216;kyaa&#8217; (what); in particular we locate it in ForceP.  We demonstrate that its distribution in embedded environments is similar to that of embedded inversion in English.<\/p>\n<p>Then we use `kyaa&#8217; to argue that projection of alternatives (as in Alternative and Inquisitive Semantics) is constrained by the syntax. In particular, A-bar movements lead to `closure&#8217; of alternatives, making them inaccessible. Consequently we expect a bleeding relationship between such movements and operations that depend upon alternatives such as alternative questions. Finally we also explore interactions between the intonational marking of Y\/N questions and syntax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) Title:\u00a0Polar Questions, Selection and Disjunction: clues from Hindi-Urdu &#8216;kyaa&#8217; Time: Friday, May 12th, 3:30-5:00 pm Place: 32-155 Abstract: [joint work with Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers] Hindi-Urdu has an optional marker &#8216;kyaa&#8217; that appears in polar and alternative questions. We delineate its properties distinguishing from the homophonous thematic &#8216;kyaa&#8217; (what); in particular we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}