[parislinguists] 20 juin conference Dimitra Papangeli

[Patricia Cabredo Hofherr]

Chers collègues,

nous avons le plaisir d'annoncer la conférence de

	Dimitra Papangeli (ENS-Paris)

intitulée

	Case restrictions on argument alternations

DATE : 	lundi 20 juin
HEURE :	14:30 h à 16:30h.
LIEU : 	salle A24
     		10 rue Charles V
		75004 Paris
METRO:   Sully Morland, Bastille ou St. Paul.

Résumé

Verbal morphology is argued to restrict the formation of reflexives, 
reciprocals and impersonals. The proposed analysis is based on the 
observation that verbal morphology reflects case elimination (Reinhart 
& Siloni 2002, 2003, Dobrovie-Sorin 1998, Cinque 1988, Chomsky 1981) 
and is developed within Reinhart’s (2000) theory, according to which 
verbal variants (reflexives, reciprocals, impersonals) are the outcome 
of thematic arity operations. My innovation is to link the type of 
verbal morphology with the kind of case that can be reduced (Papangeli 
2004).

A suffix (Greek te) obligatorily eliminates only the accusative case 
feature of the verb in all instances of verbal alternations. A clitic 
(French se, Italian si) has a wider case-absorbing capacity. The clitic 
is compatible with accusative, dative and, occasionally, nominative. 
Reflexives, reciprocals and impersonals thus appear in a larger variety 
of case configurations in clitic languages. Evidence is provided from 
cross-linguistic phenomena, such as reflexivization of the benefactor 
(dative) (Jean s’ est envoyé une lettre), impersonals and other 
phenomena.

Chomsky 1981 Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.
Cinque 1988 On Si Constructions and the Theory of Arb, Linguistic 
Inquiry 19. Dobrovie-Sorin 1998 Impersonal se Constructions in Romance 
and the Passivization of Unergatives, Linguistic Inquiry.
Papangeli 2004 The Morphosyntax of Argument Realization, LOT 
Dissertations 86.
Reinhart 2000 The Theta System: Syntactic realization of verbal 
concepts, OTS Working Papers in Linguistics.
Reinhart & Siloni 1999/2003 Against the Unaccusative Analysis of 
Reflexives. In The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Studies on the Syntax-Lexicon 
Interface, OUP, 159-180.
Reinhart & Siloni 2002 Reflexivization, Arity Operations and Parametric 
Variations, ms. Utrecht/Tel Aviv.

Cordialement,
Patricia Cabredo et Brenda Laca

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