{"id":9938,"date":"2017-05-15T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2017-05-18T06:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:08:33","slug":"ling-lunch-518-colin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/15\/ling-lunch-518-colin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"[cancelled] Ling-Lunch 5\/18 - Colin Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker:<\/strong> Colin Davis<\/a> (MIT)
\n Title:<\/strong> Cyclic Linearization and Intermediate Stranding: English Possessor Extraction and Beyond
\n Date\/Time:<\/strong> Thursday, May 18th\/12:30-1:50pm
\n Room:<\/strong> 32-D461
\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

In this work, I argue that the Cyclic Linearization view of phases (CL, Fox & Pesetsky 2005, Ko 2005, 2014) accurately constrains pied-piping\/stranding, incorporating unexamined facts from the English possessor extraction (PE) construction, first noted in Gavruseva & Thornton (2001). McCloskey (2000) showed that West Ulster English all<\/em> can be stranded by wh-movement, not only in the base position, but in an intermediate one also, which he takes as evidence for successive-cyclic movement:<\/p>\n

(1). What (all) did he say [CP t<\/em> (all<\/span>) that we should buy t<\/em> (all)]?<\/p>\n

Intriguingly in contrast, Postal (1974) noted that English prepositions cannot be stranded in intermediate positions:<\/p>\n

(2). (To) who do they believe [CP t<\/em> (*to<\/span>) that the students spoke t<\/em> (to)]?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Puzzle:<\/strong> West Ulster English all<\/em> and English prepositions are both strandable elements in principle. Why then is only the first capable of IS? This, as McCloskey noted, is mysterious.<\/p>\n

Another IS context is the English PE construction, a colloquial option for many speakers. Long-distance PE out of non-subject DP, such as whose money<\/em> in (3), requires IS of that DP in the embedded spec-CP. Why does English tolerate IS in PE derivations, but not with prepositions? This fact compounds the puzzle.<\/\n\n

p><\/p>\n

(3). Who<\/span> did they say[CP [t<\/em> ‘s money<\/span> John stole t<\/em>]? (PE with object pied-piping)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/strong> Chomsky (2001, inter alia) and CL both offer theories of how phases and their spellout determine the properties of successive-cyclic movement. Whereas Chomsky’s conception of phases does nothing to rule out preposition IS, leaving Postal’s puzzle and related facts mysterious, I argue that CL gets the facts right, predicting (1-3). This solution also predicts a generalization about IS, stated in (4).<\/p>\n

(4). Intermediate Stranding Generalization<\/strong> (ISG, Predicted by CL)
\n IS is possible when what pied-pipes, and then is stranded, was adjoined to the right of the mover.<\/em><\/p>\n

This generalization fits the fact that IS is possible for the strandable all<\/em> of West Ulster English and [‘s<\/em> NP] in possessor-extracting English, as these items follow the moving wh-word. (4) rules out IS of prepositions, which precede a mover they are adjoined to. I argue that (4) is cross-linguistically robust, fitting all cases of IS I’ve so far found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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