[PLing] Talk by Ekaterina Georgieva on May 30, 13:15 CEST

[Madeleine Butschety]

Dear colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a talk by Ekaterina Georgieva ( HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics ) as part of the Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series. Her talk entitled "On sluicing in Meadow Mari and Udmurt" (see the abstract below) will take place next Thursday, May 30, at 13:15 CEST at lecture room P5 at the University of Nova Gorica, and online. 

To attend the talk via Zoom, please use the following link: 
https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/65747216870?pwd=RE5FRkVSUjRJRFFEcnBBY2Q2WW8wQT09 

We look forward to seeing many of you there! 

Best, 
Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language 

>>EKATERINA GEORGIEVA 
"On sluicing in Meadow Mari and Udmurt" 

This talk zooms in on sluicing in Meadow Mari and Udmurt (Uralic). The aim of the talk is to first examine whether the elliptical sentences employed in these two languages show the footprint of isomorphic sluicing, where the elided material is structurally identical to the antecedent clause, or are rather instances of non-isomorphic sluicing derived from e.g. copular clauses or clefts. It will be shown that sluicing in Meadow Mari and Udmurt does show properties associated with isomorphic sluicing. Additionally, what makes the Meadow Mari and Udmurt data interesting is that wh-remnants can optionally bear possessive morphology; it will be examined what its role is. The talk will then explore possible accounts that capture the properties of sluicing in the two languages. 

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