[PLing] Talk by Timea Szarvas on November 7

[Lohninger Magdalena]

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that Timea Szarvas (University of Potsdam) will 
give a talk in the Theoretical Linguistics Colloquium on Friday, 
November 7, 16:00-17:30, Seminarraum 3, Sensengasse 3A.

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

As always, we'll be heading out for dinner and drinks afterwards.

We're looking forward to seeing many of you there,
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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