[PLing] Guest talk by Martha McGinnis (University of Victoria), Thursday, July 10th, 6 o'clock pm, Sensengasse 3a, SR3

[Dalina Kallulli]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to a guest talk by Martha McGinnis (University of Victoria) on "Symmetrical and asymmetrical anaphora in Tsova-Tush” (abstract below), to take place on Thursday, July 10th at 6 o’clock pm in the Department of Linguistics, Sensengasse 3a, SR3.

Abstract:
Pilot research on Tsova-Tush (Northeast Caucasian; Nakh) indicates a complex distribution of reflexive and reciprocal anaphors, allowing the reversal of c-command asymmetries in some contexts but not others. Symmetrical binding of genitive possessors is found in bivalent clauses, as are reflexive (though not reciprocal) subjects. I propose that Tsova-Tush allows A-scrambling, subject to Lethal Ambiguity/Binding Preservation (McGinnis 2004, 2013) – although the relationship between A-scrambling and word order is not transparent. Moreover, I propose that logophoric reflexive subjects are licensed in non-agentive contexts. I argue that these Tsova-Tush anaphors behave parallel to their Georgian counterparts (pace Amiridze 2006) rather than to their Nakh counterparts (cf. Ganenkov & Bogomolova 2021); the behaviour of a second set of Tsova-Tush reflexives (morphologically parallel to their Nakh counterparts) has yet to be investigated.

Regards,
Dalina Kallulli
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Assoz. Prof. Dr. Dalina Kallulli
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/dalina.kallulli/





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