[lingtalks] Rajesh Bhatt, USC Colloquium speaker, Monday, March 1st

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USC Colloquium Series presents RAJESH BHATT, University of Massachusetts

Monday, March 1, 2010
GFS 118, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Reception to follow, GFS 330

Unaccusativity and Case Licensing

Unaccusative predicates are typically taken to not be able to license case.
Based on case studies drawn from closest conjunct agreement and infinitival
clause subjects in Hindi-Urdu, I show that unaccusatives in Hindi-Urdu do
license case. However there are severe structural and semantic restrictions
associated with this case. These restrictions are similar to the restrictions
associated with the presence/absence of Differential Object Marking on
direct objects. I explore a speculation concerning the crosslinguistic variation
with respect to the dependency of verbal case and the consequences of these
results for a purely interpretive theory of case.

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