Speaker: Claire Halpert (University of Minnesota) Title: Raising Hell Date: Wednesday, June 17 Time: 3:30pm Place: 32-D461
In this talk, I investigate cross-linguistic variation in raising constructions, proposing a unified account for the derivation of hyper-raising and standard raising. I argue that the presence or absence of these constructions in a given language can be determined by independent properties of CP and TP in the language, including: 1) whether CPs or infinitival phrases are phi-goals in the language and 2) the presence of an EPP effect on T and (and how it can be satisfied). I show that variation in these factors can capture the different raising profiles found in Zulu, Makhuwa, and English, and Uyghur.
Note: a previous version of this announcement mistakenly gave the month of this talk as July. It is happening in June!