Dear all,
The Linguistics Colloquium Series is having a talk this Friday, 12/02, in Oak 112, at 4:00pm.We would like to invite you to join us and see Prof. Norvin Richards' (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) talk 'Contiguity Theory and Pied-Piping'. The abstract is attached below.Information about the speaker can be found here: http://linguistics.mit.edu/user/norvin/ The Linguistics Colloquium Series is a student-organized event sponsored by the UConn Department of Linguistics and the UConn Graduate Student Senate.We hope to see you there!Gabriel & Paula
Abstract:
In Richards (2016), I propose a new approach to the interaction between phonology and syntax; in particular, the idea is that the derivation of certain kinds of phonological structure begins earlier than is standardly assumed, during the narrow syntax, and that the syntactic derivation can be constrained by the need to improve the phonological structure. The resulting theory, called Contiguity Theory, makes predictions about the cross-linguistic distribution of various types of overt movement and adjacency requirements. In this talk I will apply the principles of Contiguity Theory to the problem of pied-piping. We will see that the proposals of Richards (2016) can be used to derive Cable's (2007, 2010) conditions on pied-piping.
For more information, contact: Paula Fenger at paula.fenger@uconn.edu