<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues,<div class=""><br class="">You are cordially invited to a guest talk by Ian Roberts (reporting joint work with myself) on: "Parameters of Predication: From Peripheral Persons to Perceptual Predicates", abstract below. The talk will take place tomorrow (June 26th) at 12:45 in SR3, Sensengasse 3a.<div class=""><br class="">Abstract: In this talk, on the basis of Albanian we will propose an account of the grammaticalisation of (ad)mirativity, which complements the account of the development of mirative markers in Thoms, Adger, Heycock and Smith (2019), and on the basis of which, we will argue for predication at the CI interface, much as these authors do. The grammaticalisation of the admirative involves the following formal changes: (i) upwards reanalysis of ‘have’ from Perfect to Aspect/Mood along the lines of Roberts & Roussou (2003), (ii) “reduction” of ‘have’ from a free morpheme to a suffix, triggering (iii) participle-raising to Aspect/Mood. We propose that the semantic change from the perfect to the admirative involves the generalisation of the optional experiencer argument of the perfect found in its evidential uses. In the admirative, this experiencer argument is obligatory though certainly sometimes implicit; it can sometimes be optionally realised as a so-called “ethical dative” clitic, otherwise as pro. In other words, the postulated development runs as follows: ‘have’-predicates have a locative external argument, which Freeze (1992:583) argues is [+human]; following Landau (2010), we take it that human locations are experiencers, hence the availability of the evidential interpretation of ‘have’-perfects. The development of the admirative ‘have’ then just requires a single step: the obligatory licensing of the experiencer argument by first- and second-person (hence attitude-holders) speech-act features in the left-periphery. The experiencer argument thus occupies a high position (see Thoms et al. (2019) on the connection between mirativity and the left-periphery). This is then a clear case of introduction of (attitude-holder) person features through a process distinct from the reduction of pronouns (i.e. through the left periphery).<br class="">We also compare perceptual reports in Albanian and English, two languages with a very different complementation system, concluding nonetheless that perceptual reports in both languages are structurally alike.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Dalina Kallulli<br class=""><div class="">
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