{"id":780,"date":"2019-04-04T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=780"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:40:56","slug":"workshop-on-thirty-million-theories-of-syntactic-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/workshop-on-thirty-million-theories-of-syntactic-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Thirty Million Theories of Syntactic Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 27-28, Troms\u00f8<\/h2>\n

This\u00a0event is organized by Peter Svenonius<\/a> and Craig Sailor<\/p>\n

All talks will be held in E0105 in the east wing of the SV-HUM building on the Troms\u00f8 campus.<\/p>\n

Program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nMonday, May 27th<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0930\u20111045<\/td>\nThomas Graf<\/a>, Stony Brook University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018Features: More trouble than they\u2019re worth?<\/a>\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1045-1100<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1100-1215<\/td>\nDaniel Harbour<\/a>, Queen Mary University London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018Maximal use of [\u00b1minimal]\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1215-1330<\/td>\nLunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1330-1445<\/td>\nMichelle Sheehan<\/a>, Anglia Ruskin University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018Why successive cyclic movement must be feature-driven, an indirect argument from the lack of successive cyclic A-movement<\/a>\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1445-1500<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1500-1615<\/td>\nSusana B\u00e9jar<\/a>, University of Toronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018How to be a picky probe\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTuesday, May 28th<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1000-1115<\/td>\nPeter Svenonius<\/a>, University of Troms\u00f8 — The Arctic University of Norway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018Structural case is the solution to a locality problem\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1115-1130<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1130-1245<\/td>\nOmer Preminger<\/a>, University of Maryland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\u2018What are \u03c6-features supposed to do, and where?<\/a>\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1245-1400<\/td>\nLunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1400-1600<\/td>\nPlotting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Workshop description<\/h2>\n

Features are an indispensible part of any grammatical system, but there is little consensus on some of their essential properties. For this reason, it could be said that there are currently \u2018thirty million theories of features\u2019 in the same sense that Jim McCawley complained over thirty years ago that there were thirty million theories of grammar — he supposed that there were at least 25 independent unresolved issues such as whether deep structure encoded order or not and whether anaphors were full noun phrases at deep structure or not, giving something like 30 million viable combinations.<\/p>\n

Today there are easily more than 25 independent unresolved issues concerning features, such as whether there are Edge features influencing Merge, whether there is an Activity condition restricting Agree to targets with unchecked features, whether valuation is independent of interpretability, whether all probes can search upward if they find no goals below, whether heads can bear more than one syntactically active feature, whether noun phrases require case licensing, and so on.<\/p>\n

This workshop gathers people who have thought deeply about features from different perspectives to discuss some of these fundamental issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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