[PLing] TLC talk by Kyle Johnson on May 13

[Iva Kovač]

Dear PLing-members,

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

Speaker: Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst)

Date & time: Wednesday, 13 May, 17h
Location: Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Vienna, Seminarraum 2

The title and the abstract can be found below.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Valerie Wurm & Iva Kovač
The TLC organizers
https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming

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Getting B to follow A

I sketch a way of deriving Chomsky's Principles A and B of the binding 
theory. I first argue that English reflexive pronouns can, like English 
non-reflexive pronouns, be free variables. Also like non-reflexive 
pronouns, when bound, reflexives must be bound by a Büring-like special 
binder which I call an "A-probe." I suggest that Principle A derives 
from a requirement that certain A-probes impose. Reflexive pronouns are 
the exponent of those special A-probes, and the requirement that the 
special A-probes impose is that their exponent (the reflexive) have the 
same value as their argument (the DP in the Specifier of the A-probe). 
This requirement is expressed as a presupposition. All other A-probes 
are exactly like the special one, except that they have no accompanying 
presupposition. This allows Principle B to be a consequence of Heim's 
Maximize Presupposition.
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