Linguistic Flashmob 17 December: "Nature and Nurture" with Charles Yang and Ken Wexler (Moderator: Maria Teresa Guasti)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5_qo6Nx8ziGLTwai9QokaA 

Linguistic Flashmob 3 December 2020: "Binding" with Eric Reuland and Sandhya Sundaresan (Moderatore: Alessandra Giorgi)

 

On December 3rd, prof. Reuland from Utrecht University and prof. Sundaresan from University of Göttingen had a heated "fight" about the topic of Binding! The three questions of the debate are as follows:




1. What is your definition of anaphor?
2. What are the locality conditions on different types of anaphors?
3. Are grammatical or morphological features relevant in the distribution of anaphors?


The slides of prof. Sundaresan can be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qDj6XH40_ZUUuy9J5-8S7QuVvpGep6o/view?usp=sharing




What do you think? Do you agree with them? Let us know in the comment!

Linguistic Flashmob 3 December - Binding (with Eric Reuland and Sandhya Sundaresan)

 

Linguistic Flashmobs 12 Nov. - Linearization (with Richard Kayne and Ad Neeleman)

 

LIST OF QUESTIONS: 

1) Is precedence a relation defined in core syntax or only at the externalisation interface? 

2) Is there an underlying universal head initial order? 

3) Given your model, how is a phenomenon like extraposition analysed?

Linguistic Flashmob - 12 November: Linearization (Richard Kayne vs. Ad Neeleman)

 

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Linguistic Flashmob - Oct 22 - "Negation" with Viviane Déprez and Hedde Zeijlstra

On October 22 we had Vivian Déprez and Hedde Zeijlstra that discussed about "Negation"!

Their discussion is built on the following three questions: 

A) How does semantic uniformity map into such a broad syntactic variation? 

B) Why are negative concord phenomena so widespread? 

C) How does negation interact with other operators?

Many thanks to the speakers, the moderator and the audience for their wonderful comments and questions! 

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