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 | Pronoun movement and probe generosity |
Conférencier | Maziar Toosarvandani |
Date | mardi 11 septembre 2018 |
Heure | 12h15 |
Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
Description | In a theory of attraction, an element (the goal) moves to satisfy the needs of a functional head (the probe) (Chomsky 2000, 2001). In some cases, multiple elements can move — as with clitic pronoun movement in Greek (Anagnostopoulou 2003) or wh-movement in Bulgarian (Rudin 1988) — even though the probe can be satisfied by the displacement of just one goal, as evinced by successful derivations containing just one movable element. This ability, for a probe to interact with more goals than it needs to, we might call probe generosity. It is a simple observation that poses a fundamental mystery: If elements move only to satisfy the needs of a probe, why are such apparently extraneous movements permitted? For clitic pronouns, different answers to this question have been advanced. Perhaps the probe's needs are not completely satisfied by the first goal it finds, so it must interact with other goals (Béjar & Rezac 2003, Anagnostopoulou 2003, Walkow 2012). Or, perhaps the probe interacts with all goals in parallel; no one goal, then, stops it from interacting with others (Anagnostopoulou 2005, Nevins 2007, 2011).
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