[PLing] TLC Talk - Silvia Terenghi - 4 April

[Iva Kovač]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to our next talk within the Theoretical 
Linguistics Colloquium.

Speaker: Silvia Terenghi (Utrecht University)

Date/venue: 4 April, 16-17:30, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Vienna, Seminarraum 
3

Upcoming events as well as further information can be found on our 
website:
https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the talk,
Valerie Wurm, Magdalena Lohninger, and Iva Kovač
The TLC organizers

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Title & Abstract:

Restructuring the bundle: A formal generative typology of personal 
pronouns

This talk examines how person, number, and gender features are encoded 
in a typologically diverse sample of independent pronominal systems. 
Empirically, it focuses on the typological variation in the featural 
make-up of personal pronouns, as well as on the limits of this 
variation. Specifically, it shows that, while robust generalisations can 
be drawn in the domains of person and number, variation in the gender 
domain appears to resist similar abstractions. Theoretically, this talk 
aims to explain these observations. On the one hand, it proposes that 
the attested generalisations can be traced back to the syntax of person 
and number features: the assumption that these features are not bundled 
together, but rather merged within the spine of personal pronouns in a 
step-wise fashion, is shown to account for the (un)attested patterns of 
variation. On the other hand, it discusses the implications of the 
present findings for the syntax of gender.
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