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SUMMARY:Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives - Dr Michelle Sheehan 
 (Anglia Ruskin University)
DTSTART:20160128T160000Z
DTEND:20160128T173000Z
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:Many languages have a causative construction in which transiti
 ve causees pattern differently\nfrom intransitive causees: the ‘ergative
 ’ pattern or canonical causative construction of Comrie\n(1975). Amongst
  Romance languages the pattern is often labelled the faire-infinitif after
  Kayne’s\n(1975) description of French. Across Romance it is characteris
 ed by dative case on the transitive\ncausee and VS word order\, but it is 
 also subject to considerable microparametric variation\, much\nof which ha
 s not previously been adequately described or explained.\n(1) a. Il fera [
 boire un peu de vin à son enfant] (Fr.)\nhe make.FUT drink.INF a bit of w
 ine to his child\n‘He’ll make his child drink a bit of wine.’\nb. Il
  fera [chanter son enfant]\nhe make.FUT sing.INF his child\n‘He’ll mak
 e his child sing.’\nIn this talk I provide a description of some of the 
 many attested patterns and attempt to model the\narising similarities and 
 differences in terms of a parameter hierarchy\, developing work by\nRobert
 s (2012) and other members of the ReCoS group in Cambridge. The resultant 
 parameter\nhierarchy determines the features of a single thematic head whi
 ch introduces the causee and can\nalso optionally do other things such as 
 assigning inherent or structural Case and triggering\nmovement. The arisin
 g hierarchy\, I argue\, can be derived from a fairly standard version of C
 ase\nTheory and intervention.\n
LOCATION:GR06/07\, English Faculty Building\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Site
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