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 | Ways of structuring in syntax |
| Conférencier | Hubert Haider (Universität Salzburg) |
| Date | mardi 27 novembre 2018 |
| Heure | 12h15 |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
| Description | The position of the head of a phrase – final, initial, variable – robustly correlates with the presence or absence of a sizeable set of syntactic properties: shell-structure, scrambling, EPP, LLC, wh-in-situ constraints, etc. Three universal principles plus a single parameter fully capture and correctly predict a substantive set of cross-linguistic differences between (clauses involving) head-initialvs. head-final(verb) phrases. The simple and minimal set of principles not only generates the familiar head-final vs. head-initial distinction. In addition, it admits a third and hitherto overlooked option, namely 'flexible' positioning of the lexical head. Presently, such languages are misfiled as highly exceptional SVO languages, as for instance the Slavic languages. Additional, downloadable material (submitted or in press. https://sbg.academia.edu/HubertHaider) § A typology of head positions within a phrase and its syntactic correlates (submitted). § On absent, expletive, and non-referential subjects. (To appear in) P. Herbeck, B. Pöll, and A. Wolfsgruber (eds.) Impersonal constructions. Topic volume of Linguistische Berichte. § The Left-Left Constraint – a structural constraint on adjuncts. (to appear in) Ulrike Freywald & Horst Simon (eds.) "Headedness and/or Grammatical Anarchy?" Berlin: Language Science Press. § Haider H. & Luka Szucsich. Slavic languages – "SVO" languages without SVO qualities? (submitted). |
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