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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Karma Dolma [mailto:dolma@usc.edu]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
'ling-assoc-l@usc.edu'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Next Colloquium Talk: April 14 - Kyle
Johnson - Fitting a Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction
Effects<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>The Colloquium Committee of the USC Linguistics Department proudly
presents:<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)"><FONT
size=4><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif">Kyle
Johnson</SPAN></FONT></B><BR><FONT size=4><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><B style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">University of
Massachusetts, Amherst</B></SPAN></I></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"></SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><B>Monday, April
14th</B></SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><B>3:00 pm</B></SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><B>GFS
118</B></SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><FONT size=2>Dinner to follow in the
department</FONT></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT size=4><I><SPAN
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<DIV><BR></SPAN></I></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><B
style="FONT-FAMILY: georgia,serif"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(153,0,0)">Fitting a
Multidominant Model of Movement to Reconstruction
Effects</SPAN><BR></B></FONT><BR>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. <SPAN class=625352015-10042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=625352015-10042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Michal
Martinez</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=625352015-10042008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="mailto:mtmartin@usc.edu">mtmartin@usc.edu</A></FONT> </SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>