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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Dear PLing members, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">We are delighted to announce the upcoming talk by Dr. Irina Burukina (<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), taking place</span><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> as part of her Erasmus visit to our FWF project <em>Implicational hierarchies in clausal complementation</em>, led by Dr. Susanne Wurmbrand. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Date and time: Wednesday, 25th May 2022, 17h</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Place: Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3A</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Title & abstract:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">*When dative subjects and agreement in infinitival clauses depend on an external adposition*</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The talk focuses on the infinitival clauses in Meadow Mari (Uralic; head-final, SOV) that allow overt subjects and/or agreement on the infinitive. I will outline a novel analysis whereby embedded subjects in Mari are exceptionally licensed by a silent dative postposition (PDAT) heading the infinitival clause, which is also responsible for AGR. Thus, it is only in the presence of the P head that the two phenomena become possible. I will further put the data into a broader context. First, I will discuss the well-known analyses that postulate that the non-finite T has special Case/Agr properties and show that, although these approaches appear to match the data, they fail to make valid predictions when it comes to Mari. <span style="color: #000000;">Second, I will demonstrate how studying the infinitival clauses improves our understanding of the syntax of postpositional constructions in general.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">We hope to see many of you there!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">Kindest regards, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">Susanne Wurmbrand, Magdalena Lohninger, and Iva Kovač</span></span></p>
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