******announcement***********
Heidi Harley will be talking in the Grammatical Locality Project at 7pm
tomorrow (THURS 3/17),
in Boylston seminar room, on "Conflation and the Locality of Head
Movement"
See you there!
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nevins(a)fas.harvard.edu
617-495-8107
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_nevins.html
Dear all,
Our next Ling-lunch speaker is Marta Abrusan (MIT).
****************************Marta Abrusan (MIT)
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Underspecified precedence relation and Hungarian vowel~zero
alternations
Abstract can be found at:
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/linglunch/abrusan.pdf
WHEN: Thursday, March 17, 12:30
WHERE: 32-D461
For coming talks please refer to our website:
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/linglunch/
Your Ling-lunch organizers,
Cristina & Ivona
Dear All,
Next Ling-lunch speaker is Gisbert Fanselow. Details follow.
*******************Gisbert Fanselow**************************
(Universitat Potsdam)
Discontinuous Arguments
WHEN: Thursday, March 10 at 12:30 PM
WHERE: 32-D461
Abstract follows. For further information about the speaker and coming
talks please visit our website:
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/linglunch/
Yours Ling-lunch organizers,
Cristina and Ivona
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ABSTRACT:
Fanselow & Cavar (2002) proposed an account of discontinuous arguments
such as (1), in which the conflict between the economy of pronunciation
and the need to pronounce phrases with operator features in pertinent
specifier positions played a crucial role. An ongoing research project
(www.split-nps.de) tries to evaluate this approach and improve it where
necessary. The talk can be considered an interim report of this project,
based the analysis of data from some 60 languages. Particular emphasis
will be given to the repair strategies employed when arguments are
pronounced in a discontinuous way, the grammatical difference resulting
from the relative positions of the noun relative to the determiner in
discontinous arguments (compare (1a) with (1b)), and a discussion of what
factors possibly predict the occurrence of split arguments in natural
language.
(1)
a. B|cher hat sie viele gelesen
books has she many read
"she has read many books"
b. wieviel hast Du Geld ausgegeben?
how-much have you money spent
"how much money have you spent"
>The Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative is pleased to
>present the first talk in the March Conversation Series. We hope you
>will join us this evening.
>
>5:00 pm, Friday, March 4, 2005
>Consciousness: Neurobiological and Philosophical Perspectives
>Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave.
>
>Ned Block
>Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, NYU
>
>and
>
>Christof Koch
>Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral
>Biology, Caltech
>
>
>For more information on this series please see our poster at:
>http://mbb.harvard.edu/MBB_Conversation_Series_big.jpg
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Manus Patten
406b Museum of Comparative Zoology
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617 496 4089
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Hello friends,
This is a test message for the "lingpost" mailing list, which will make
it easier to announce informal departmental events,
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Andrew
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