[lingtalks] Next Colloquium Talk: April 14 - Kyle Johnson - Fitting a Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction Effects

[Karma Dolma]

The Colloquium Committee of the USC Linguistics Department proudly presents:


Kyle Johnson
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Monday, April 14th
3:00 pm
GFS 118
Dinner to follow in the department



Fitting a Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction Effects

A popular method of capturing reconstruction effects is with a theory that
expresses the movement operation as producing copies of the moved item and
assigning those copies different positions in a phrase marker. Taking work
by Danny Fox as a starting point, I sketch how this produces certain
conundrums for the semantic interpretation of movement chains. The solution
to those conundrums, I will suggest, involves letting semantically
contentful movement only arise when determiners are involved, and modeling
movement with multidominant phrase markers. I sketch how this model
expresses conditions on movement by way of ranked, violable, output
constraints on linearizations.  
 
Michal Martinez
mtmartin at usc.edu 
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