There are no meetings of Phonology Circle, Ling-Lunch, or LFRG this week.
Issue of Monday, February 21st, 2011
Syntax Square 2/22 - Bethany Lochbihler
Speaker: Bethany Lochbihler
Title: Transitivity and animacy mismatches in the Ojibwe verbal paradigms
Time: Tuesday, February 22, 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: 32-D461
This paper proposes a unifying account of verb finals in Ojibwe
(Central Algonquian) using Cyclic Agree (Béjar & Rezac 2009) to license
Person features. I give an account of the long-standing puzzle of transitive
inanimate verbs bearing animate intransitive theme-signs, even though these
two types of verbs mismatch in both animacy and transitivity. Further, I
argue for revisions to the mechanics of Béjar & Rezac’s (2009) Cyclic Agree,
and account for the Inverse System found with transitive animate verbs in
Ojibwe, which is extended to the verbal finals on ditransitive verbs.
Speaker: Bethany Lochbihler
Title: Transitivity and animacy mismatches in the Ojibwe verbal paradigms
Time: Tuesday, February 22, 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: 32-D461
This paper proposes a unifying account of verb finals in Ojibwe (Central Algonquian) using Cyclic Agree (Béjar & Rezac 2009) to license Person features. I give an account of the long-standing puzzle of transitive inanimate verbs bearing animate intransitive theme-signs, even though these two types of verbs mismatch in both animacy and transitivity. Further, I argue for revisions to the mechanics of Béjar & Rezac’s (2009) Cyclic Agree, and account for the Inverse System found with transitive animate verbs in Ojibwe, which is extended to the verbal finals on ditransitive verbs.
Harvard Phonology Talk 2/24 - Karen Jesney
Speaker: Karen Jesney (UMass Amherst)
Title: TBA
Time: Thursday, February 24, 5:00pm
Location: Boylston Hall, third floor, room 303
Speaker: Karen Jesney (UMass Amherst)
Title: TBA
Time: Thursday, February 24, 5:00pm
Location: Boylston Hall, third floor, room 303
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Two excellent articles about the research that Martin Hackl and his students are currently conducting in Martin’s Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab
were published here on the website of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science and here on the MIT website!
Two excellent articles about the research that Martin Hackl and his students are currently conducting in Martin’s Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab were published here on the website of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science and here on the MIT website!