Note the irregular time for the Syntax Group this week.
Tuesday, February 26, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Innis College 313
Morphology Reading Group
Presentation by Virgilio Partida Peñalva (Ph.D.).
Friday, March 1, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Psycholinguistics Research Group
Barend Beekhuizen (faculty): "Computational investigations of the how and why of homonyms."
Friday, March 1, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Syntax Group
Cristina Cuervo (faculty): "Asymmetries in argument introducers: Beyond Voice and v/V."
The asymmetry between subjects and objects has been noted, articulated and accounted for from many perspectives, linguistic and other. One instantiation is the opposition of subjects as external arguments, licensed as specifiers of Voice, to objects as internal arguments, complements of the verb. What about licensing of non-core arguments, such as adpositional and applied arguments? Building on recent work on adpositions (Svenonious 2007, 2008, a.o.), I explore licensing properties of P and Appl, testing the possibilities of unification of argument introducers (as in Wood and Marantz 2017), but asymmetries that parallel those of subjects and objects emerge. At the centre of the asymmetries we find the contrast between specifiers and complements, the opposition between figures and grounds, and the relative role of lexical roots and configurational properties in determining interpretation.
Friday, March 1, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Fieldwork Group
Liam Donohue (MA) on tense/aspect in Georgian.
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