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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>this is a reminder for the upcoming talk of the Theoretical
Linguistics Colloquium Vienna (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming">https://sites.google.com/view/totlvienna/upcoming</a>):
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Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore &
Helsinki Collgium for advanced studies)<br>
MO, February 10, 16:30<br>
SR3, Sensengasse 3A, 1090 Vienna.</p>
<p>Title and abstract can be found below.</p>
<p>Best, <br>
Iva Kovač, Valerie Wurm & Magdalena Lohninger</p>
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<p>Title: <b>Voice and extraction in Malayic</b></p>
<p>In many Malayic languages (western Austronesian), subjects can
undergo A’-movement without any special qualification, whereas
non-subject nominals can only A’-move if the verb appears without
a voice prefix. We propose a novel account for the syntax of voice
alternations in Malayic languages, synthesizing insights in the
prior proposals of Aldridge 2008 and Nomoto 2015, 2021.
Furthermore, adopting the view that phase impenetrability effects
reflect word order determination at each phase level (Fox and
Pesetsky 2005), our proposal derives both the general subject-only
A’-extraction restriction and its limited exception and associated
morphological restrictions. The proposal is motivated by our
original data on voice and extraction in Suak Mansi Desa, a
previously undescribed Malayic language of western Borneo, which
we then successfully extend to Standard Indonesian and Standard
Malay as well as various other dialects and languages of the
region.</p>
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