We are happy to announce a talk by Alexandrine Dunlap (GU/Florida) in the Syntax Colloquium.
The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301
Date: November 18, 2024
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct
Title: „Operator Agreement in Sentential Negation“
Abstract:
In this talk I will put forward possible analyses that can account for Gweno’s unique agreeing negation. In Gweno main clause sentential negation, a post-verbal negation particle is inflected for the phi features of the subject. Additionally, Gweno uses an alternate negation strategy for certain clause types, specifically relative clauses and conditionals which encode negation with a post-initial prefix. Given the strict relationship between the negation particle and subject inflection on the verb, I explore the possibility of movement of the entire TP into the specifier of NegP and the role an operator may play in facilitating this pattern.