34.1778, Confs: Verbal Domains

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1778. Sat Jun 03 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1778, Confs: Verbal Domains

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Date: 03-Jun-2023
From: Michelle Sheehan [michelle.sheehan1 at newcastle.ac.uk]
Subject: Verbal Domains


Verbal Domains

Date: 26-Jun-2023 - 27-Jun-2023
Location: Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Contact: Michelle Sheehan
Contact Email: michelle.sheehan1 at newcastle.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/verbal-domains/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Philosophy of
Language; Syntax; Typology

Meeting Description:

Much recent work in minimalism has converged on the idea that there is
a phase boundary between vP and TP around the level of voice or
progressive aspect (Aelbrecht 2010, Aelbrecht and Harwood 2015,
Ramchand & Svenonius 2014, Harwood 2015). While this work initially
focused on well-studied phenomena in English such as VP ellipsis,
expletive associate constructions and VP fronting, subsequent
cross-linguistic work has suggested that the same boundary can be
detected in Romance languages (Sheehan & Cyrino 2022, Casalicchio &
Sheehan 2022) and unrelated languages such as Turkish and Japanese and
within ‘words’ as well as in periphrastic structures (Fenger 2020).
The ultimate explanation for this remains open, but Ramchand (2018)
proposes an account based on the semantics of event composition.

There is a tension between this claim and other work providing
evidence for a v-related phase from asymmetries relating to
subject/object extraction (see Cole and Hermon 1998; Bennett et al.
2012; Sato 2012, van Urk 2015; van Urk & Richard 2015). Such
asymmetries seem to indicate that the v-related phase is located lower
than voice/aspect, between the internal and external argument, at the
level of v.

Despite these robust and recurrent empirical patterns, the whole
notion of phases remains somewhat controversial within generative
grammar, and the idea that there is a v-related phase in addition to a
C-related phase even more so (see Keine 2019). The evidence for
successive cyclicity in this lower phase has been questioned
(Zeijlstra & Keine 2020) and there is a certain sense of unease
regarding the fragility of phasal diagnostics and their uneasy
relationship with extraction restrictions (Boeckx & Grohmann 2007).

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