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SUMMARY:Resumption and the Design of Grammar - Ash Asudeh (University of O
 xford & Carleton University)
DTSTART:20111027T160000Z
DTEND:20111027T173000Z
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CONTACT:George Walkden
DESCRIPTION:This talk uses the empirical phenomenon of resumption as a len
 s to examine the design of grammar. I present a general hypothesis called 
 the Resource Sensitivity Hypothesis (RSH)\, which places a certain specifi
 c constraint on the language system. I demonstrate that various cross-theo
 retical proposals can be reduced to RSH. Based on RSH\, I develop the Reso
 urce Management Theory of Resumption (RMTR)\, which treats resumption as i
 rreducibly a problem of semantic composition. I show how RMTR\, together w
 ith a certain constraint-based syntactic mechanism\, achieves a unificatio
 n of apparently heterogeneous grammatically licensed resumptive pronouns. 
 I also show certain correct consequences of RMTR and their implications fo
 r the syntax-semantics interface and grammatical architecture. Time permit
 ting\, I will also show how RMTR achieves a further unification between re
 sumptive pronouns in unbounded dependencies and copy pronouns in copy rais
 ing\; both of these phenomena are\, at least pre-theoretically\, instances
  of resumption.
LOCATION:Latimer Room\, E Staircase\, Clare College Old Court
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