[PLing] Talk by Michael Y. Erlewine on February 10

[Magdalena Lohninger]

Dear colleagues,

the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium Vienna 
(https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming) starts the upcoming 
semester early with a talk by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine on February 10, 
16:30, SR3 Sensengasse 3A, 1090 Vienna.

Title and abstract can be found below - we are hoping to seeing many of 
you there (despite the semester holidays).

Best,
Iva Kovač, Valerie Wurm & Magdalena Lohninger

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Title: *Voice and extraction in Malayic*

In many Malayic languages (western Austronesian), subjects can undergo 
A’-movement without any special qualification, whereas non-subject 
nominals can only A’-move if the verb appears without a voice prefix. We 
propose a novel account for the syntax of voice alternations in Malayic 
languages, synthesizing insights in the prior proposals of Aldridge 2008 
and Nomoto 2015, 2021. Furthermore, adopting the view that phase 
impenetrability effects reflect word order determination at each phase 
level (Fox and Pesetsky 2005), our proposal derives both the general 
subject-only A’-extraction restriction and its limited exception and 
associated morphological restrictions. The proposal is motivated by our 
original data on voice and extraction in Suak Mansi Desa, a previously 
undescribed Malayic language of western Borneo, which we then 
successfully extend to Standard Indonesian and Standard Malay as well as 
various other dialects and languages of the region.
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