[PLing] Reminder: talk by Timea Szarvas today at 16.00

[Lohninger Magdalena]

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder that Timea Szarvas (University of Potsdam) will give 
a talk today at 16:00-17:30, Seminarraum 3, Sensengasse 3A as part of 
the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium.

Title and abstract are below; all further information can be found on 
our website: https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming

Best,
Iva, Valerie & Lena


Title:/**/The limits of principle C reconstruction in multi-gap dependencies

Abstract:*//*Principle C reconstruction supposedly reveals the syntactic 
link between the filler and each gap in across-the-board and parasitic 
gap dependencies. However, the reported outcomes of the diagnostic 
conflict, giving rise to various syntactic `tools’ to derive multi-gap 
dependencies. I present a series of coreference judgment experiments 
reproducing patterns that were previously taken to indicate an asymmetry 
between the two gaps of each construction. Crucially, inter-individual 
variability shows that this asymmetry does not result from an absence of 
reconstruction to the non-initial gap, but rather from a decrease of the 
already compromised robustness of the effect with increased linear 
distance. Since these data are thus orthogonal to the underlying syntax 
of ATB and parasitic gaps, claims relying primarily on them lose 
empirical support.

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*Dr. Magdalena Lohninger*
/University of Salzburg
Department of Linguistics
UNI-PARK Nonntal, 3.427
Erzabt-Klotz Straße 1
5020 Salzburg, Austria/

magdalena.lohninger at plus.ac.at <url>
https://lenalohninger.wordpress.com/ <url>
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