Title: Let’s argue about clausal arguments! Date: Dec 9th (Wednesday) and Dec 10th (Thursday) Time: 5:00-7:00 PM Place: 32-D461 (Wednesday) and 32-155 (Thursday)
The plan for this discussion is to investigate the ways in which clauses combine with predicates as internal and external arguments. We’ll look at the behavior of finite clauses with respect to case (e.g. Stowell 1981, Kempchinsky 1992, a.o.), theories of clausal embedding as relativization (e.g. Aboh 2005, 2010, Arseneijevic, 2009, Haegeman and Ürögdi 2010, Kayne 2009), differences between internal and external argument clauses, and the behavior of head-initial CPs in head final languages. I’ll be particularly concerned with the behavior of finite declarative clauses in languages that have them. (These questions relate to, and form some of the broader landscape for, the talk that I’ll give on Friday — but the talk is meant to stand alone.)