We are happy to announce a talk by Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice) in the Syntax Colloquium.
The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301
Date: December 16, 2024
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct
Title: “Privileged Access, Verb Second and the that trace effect”
Abstract:
In this talk, I present a novel approach to the that trace-effect that is based on the insight that subjects stand out in having privileged access to the C-domain. Paradoxically, this privilege of subjects that is visible in various effects appearing with local, that is, clause-internal movement leads to a handicap in long distance movement. I argue that the effect is due to an economy condition operative with flexible phase edges in the C-domain. Flexible phase edges are also visible in V2-languages, which distinguish each other between low and high V2, corresponding to a low (FinP) or high (ForceP) phase edge in the C-domain.