Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | Find the gap: On structure building and the formation of filler-gap dependencies in syntax | |
| Conférencier | Marcel den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center & Hungarian Academy of Sciences) | |
| Date | mardi 25 novembre 2014 | |
| Heure | 12h15 | |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) | |
| Description | In the mainstream generative approach, syntactic structures are standardly built in a "bottom-up" fashion (i.e., from the leaves to the root of the tree), and filler-gap dependencies are customarily derived via movement up the tree, via a succession of local steps (successive cyclicity). In this talk, I will present an alternative, "top-down" approach to syntactic structure building and the representation of filler-gap dependencies that is motivated by an outlook on the locality of syntactic dependencies predicated on the premise that local domains for syntactic computation (so-called phases) are wholly impenetrable and defined in terms of predication and Agree relations. It will be shown that this top-down approach presents an explanatory outlook on classic "Subjacency" and "ECP" effects, and establishes a close connection between syntactic derivation and sentence processing. Audio recording of the talk: Mediaserver |
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