conf N.Richards

[Lea Nash]

L'UMR 7023 (SFL)
a le plaisir d'annoncer un exposé
(lieu et heure modifiés)


Date : lundi 29 mai 2006
Lieu : ENS, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005,  Salle Lapie, 1er étage gauche
Heure :  13:30-15:00
RER: Luxembourg


13:30-15:00

"Beyond Strength and Weakness"
Norvin W. Richards
MIT


RESUME:
In this talk I will try to develop an account which predicts on the 
basis of
independently observable facts about a language what strategy for forming
wh-questions it will use (rather than using strong and weak features, or 
EPP
features and their absence, to stipulate that wh-movement is overt in 
some
languages and covert in others).  The account is inspired by recent
work on the prosody of wh-in-situ in Japanese (Deguchi and Kitagawa 
2002, Ishihara 2003,
Sugahara 2003...) which suggests that wh-in-situ involves the creation 
of a
prosodic domain containing both the wh-phrase and the complementizer 
where it
takes scope.  The proposal will be that this prosody reflects a universal
condition; wh-phrases and their complementizers must always share a 
prosodic
domain.  Variation between languages then follows from variation in the 
basic
rules for how syntactic structures may be mapped onto prosody.

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