Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | Larger than expected: some ideas on pied-piping and phase unity |
| Conférencier | Cristiano Chesi (Università di Pavia) |
| Date | mardi 10 octobre 2017 |
| Heure | 12h15 |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
| Description |
Pied-piping represents a critical option for a “minimal” grammatical theory that assumes a feature driven analysis of displacement.
In this talk I will go through some classic (apparent) example of pied-piping (wh- headed constituents, relative clauses, PPs and larger DPs pied-piping with wh- items as P complements etc.) showing well known asymmetries (e.g. matrix vs. embedded, English vs. Slavic languages).
Some major approaches will be reviewed mainly assuming
i. a modification of the movement operation (Bresnan 1976, Emonds 1976, Ross 1967, 86, Heck 2008, 09);
ii. some feature percolation mechanism from the goal feature, targeted by the movement probe, to a higher (accessible) layer (i.e. maximal projection) (Chomsky 1973; Cowper 1987; Grimshaw 2000; Webelhuth 1992);
iii. different feature target for movement (e.g. higher Operators encapsulating the pied-piped constituent as in Cable 2010, 2013).
I will show that none of these approaches fully capture the intricacies of the pied-piping phenomena described. Mainly focusing on the pied-piping vs P stranding options (and their asymmetry with respect to sub-extraction from Subject vs Object position in English) I will discuss a simpler idea (extension of the idea discussed in Bianchi & Chesi 2015) that would make a specific “theory of pied-piping” non-necessary: the notion of phase (unity) and a derivation that unfold top-down and, as a consequence, from left to right, more easily accounts for major phenomena here discussed.
References
Bianchi V., C. Chesi (2015) On a PP/DP asymmetry in extraction. in Structures, Strategies and Beyond, Edition: Linguistik Atuell Series, Publisher: John Benjamins, Editors: Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann, Simona Matteini
Bianchi V., C. Chesi (2014) Subject islands, reconstruction, and the flow of the computation. Linguistic Inquiry 45(4):525–569 - DOI: 10.1162/ling_a_00166
Cable, S. (2010). Against the existence of pied-piping: Evidence from Tlingit. Linguistic Inquiry, 41(4), 563-594.
Heck, F. (2004). A theory of pied-piping (Doctoral dissertation, Universität Tübingen).
Horvath, J. (2006). Pied-piping. The Blackwell companion to syntax, 3, 569-630.
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