Morphology

2023 Dec 01

FoRiM: Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT) & Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna)

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Boylston 303

Abstract

Control has long been employed as diagnostic of subjecthood: in an active embedded clause, the controllee should invariably correspond to the agent qua external argument. Yet, the very notion of subjecthood breaks down in Austronesian-type voice systems where one argument is promoted to “pivot” and triggers a particular morphological form on the verb without altering its valency: subject properties are distributed between the agent irrespective of pivothood, and the pivot irrespective of θ-role, though not in a uniform manner (Schachter...

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2023 Jan 23

Morphology Reading Group

Repeats every week every Monday, 12 times except Mon Feb 20 2023, Mon Mar 13 2023.
10:15am to 11:30am

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Boylston Hall 335