✷清華語言所新018次專題演講公告✷
講者：申正 (University of Connecticut)
題目：Multi-Valuation in Nominal Right Node Raising Constructions and Its Implications
日期：2016年 6月 17日 (星期五)
時間：上午10時 開始
地點：人社院B305
摘要：
In the first part of the talk, I present a cross-linguistic study on the nominal right node raising construction (NRNR) in (1-3) and an analysis that involves multi-dominance and multi-valuation. I argue against the across-the-board movement account and the ellipsis account. This analysis is compatible with an agree based approach to nominal concord but not the morphological approach.
(1) a. This and that student are a couple.
b. *This and that students are a couple.
(2) a. *John's and Mary's student are a couple.
b. John's and Mary's students are a couple.
(3) a. John's tall and Mary's short student are a couple.
b. *John's tall and Mary's short students are a couple.
Then I compare the right node raising construction in the NP domain with the one in the TP domain in (4) (Grosz 2015) and present a novel asymmetry between N and T in multi-valuation. The asymmetry is accounted for if one assumes particular feature setups on N and T nodes.
(4) John is proud that Bill and Mary is glad that Sue have travelled to Cameroon.
In the last bit, I specify the implications of my analyses on case matching, NP ellipsis, closest conjunct agreement, and processing. I discuss the possibility to extend the empirical scope to nominal left node constructions in (5) (Corbett 1979).
(5) This man and woman are a couple.