Today’s handout
The handout from today’s discussion of Guerzoni (2006) has been posted .
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Monday’s meeting: 11am
The discussion that Lisa Travis will lead on Malagasy and clefts will be this coming Monday, and will be at 11am. I will try (and probably succeed) to reserve 117 for the meeting.
One thing that might be useful to read in preparation in Paul Law’s recent NLLT paper (”The syntactic structure of the cleft construction [...]
Upcoming plans
We’ve got some plans, perhaps slightly tentative, for the future.
Next week (May 7th): Guerzoni (2006) “Intervention effects on NPIs and feature movement: Towards a unified account of intervention.” (Natural Language Semantics).
Then, May 14th, Lisa Travis is planning to present some of her current thoughts about Malagasy and clefts.
Still planning for 3pm meetings in 117.
Today’s handout
Just so I get it posted, here’s today’s handout.
Again, we left the meeting today without a definite plan about next week, but the plan will be made and made public shortly.
Not much to suggest
So, I finally have the handout ready I think, and, after having gone through the Alonso-Ovalle & Menéndez-Benito (2007) paper, I don’t have a lot to say about what you can skip, if you’re pressed for time. It all kind of fits into the flow.
There are a couple of appendices, which are pretty skippable, and [...]
Last week’s handout
I’ve posted the handout from the last meeting, with a couple of minor corrections (The corrections are just adding a star that was missing on one of the readings of one of the examples, and adding a footnote about the place of a couple of the examples concerning bare wh-indefinites in the Yanovich’s argument).
Next time: Alonso-Ovalle & Menéndez-Benito (2007)
At the last meeting, we decided that, at least for the moment, we would continue to meet on Wednesday, but a little bit earlier (3pm rather than 3:30pm) now that classes have ended. So:
Next meeting: Wednesday, April 23, 3:00pm in room 117.
We also hadn’t really come to much of a conclusion about what to look [...]
What did he say exactly that he wanted?
In the discussion today, I mentioned McCloskey’s 2000 paper (Linguistic Inquiry 31(1):57-84, “Quantifier float and wh-movement in an Irish English,” usual password needed to access the local copy).
There, he observes that in the dialect in question, you can ask not only What all did he say (that) he wanted? (as I can in my dialect), [...]
Wh-in-situ phenomena in French (Chang 1997)
Since it came up in the discussion, though maybe related only tangentially, the 1997 UBC MA thesis by Lisa Chang (”Wh-in-situ phenomena in French”) is available from the readings page. (The usual password is required to access it.)
It’s worth mentioning that Chang’s generalizations about when wh-in-situ is possible in French are more sophisticated than they [...]
Whose-questions in child English (Gavruseva & Thornton 2001)
Another paper that was briefly mentioned today was Gavruseva & Thornton’s study of whose-questions in Child English, from (Language Acquisition 9(3):229–267) (usual password required to access local copy).
The major thing of interest is that they found some children produced things like Who do you think’s flower fell off? (’Whose flower do you think fell off?’) [...]