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Passives of causatives and perception verbs in Italian
Get PDFThis paper argues for a phase-based analysis of passivization patterns with causative (fare ‘make’) and perception verbs (vedere ‘see’, guardare ‘watch’) in standard Italian, based on corpus data and acceptability judgements. We show that Italian (long) passives face clear restrictions sensitive to complement type and matrix verb, and argue that, as in English and Brazilian Portuguese, passivation is blocked where a causative/perception verb selects a (VoiceP) phase (Sheehan and Cyrino 2024). Conversely, long passivation is possible where a complement is either: (a) smaller than a phase (VP or vP) or (b) as large as TP, including a low ‘subject position’ feeding onwards A-movement
The mixed OV/VO syntax of Mocheno main clauses: on the interaction between high and low left periphery
No full textIn this paper, I address the syntax of the direct object in the Tyrolean dialect Mòcheno, a mixed OV/VO language, and provide a novel account for the coexistence of the two word orders. The traditional view (a.o. Rowley 2003), which makes sense of Mòcheno mixed syntax through the assumption that speakers have access to two grammars with different parameter settings due to contact, will be challenged by showing that variation emanates from one single grammar and is ruled by information structure. In order to capture the connection between syntax and information structure, I propose an antisymmetric (Kayne 1994) and cartographic (a.o. Rizzi 1997, Cinque 1999) account, whose core idea is that the linear word order of all sentences is the result of the interaction between the high left periphery and the low left periphery (Jayaseelan 2001, Belletti 2004) both assumed to be characterised by hosting functional projections encoding discourse-related features and by having a V2 rule, relating to the finite verb and the past participle, respectively (Poletto 2006)
[Review of] Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan, Parametric Variation : Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. vi+368.
No full textThis volume is a collection of eight articles, part of the outcome of a five-year project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and entitled ‘Null subjects and the structure of parametric theory’. The introduction by Ian Roberts & Anders Holmberg is a thorough literature review of the pro-drop parameter, taking us as far back as Perlmutter (Reference Perlmutter1971), who was the first to link null subjects to the presence of person morphology on the verb. Roberts & Holmberg show that parameters as defined in generative grammar are powerful tools, which need to be constrained while maintaining their descriptive power. Contra Newmeyer (Reference Newmeyer and Pica2004), Roberts & Holmberg (and Theresa Biberauer and Michelle Sheehan too) promise to restore faith in the Government and Binding notion of parameters by refining these through the Minimalist framework.
In my view, this is a very thought-provoking volume with exceptional theoretical rigour. The authors not only propose typologies worth pursuing, but they also open up avenues for future research. For this review, I have decided to provide a summary of every article in this volume for the reasons that (i) the contributions are very different from each other and do not always entertain a coherent set of theoretical assumptions, and hence (ii) a detailed account of each chapter should provide signposting and navigation points for readers
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: June Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs
No full textJune Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.June Ambrose is a celebrity stylist and designer whose clients include Sean Combs, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, and Gabrielle Union. She is author of the book Effortless Style.Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs founded their brand Cushnie et Ochs in 2008, creating collections that juxtapose bold sensuality with minimalist sophistication
Order and structure in syntax II Subjecthood and argument structure
Get PDFThis book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental
issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The papers in the collection all
address the issue of subjecthood and argument structure in some way, and examine how
certain subject properties vary across languages: expression of subjects, expletive subjects,
quirky and locative subjects. All of the papers address in some way the tension between
modelling what can vary across languages whilst improving our understanding of what
might be universal to human language
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Media Representations of Michelle Obama
Get PDFIn this article the author presents ideas about the media representations of Michelle Obama. The author argues that the public perceptions and favorability of Michelle Obama are tied to which aspects of her identity are presented in the media
Interview of author Michelle Martinez
No full textMichelle Martinez, author of the crime novel "Most wanted," talks about the issues faced by Latin Americans in their home country versus what they face in the United States. She describes her family and education, graduation form Harvard Law School, and her professional endeavors. Martinez discusses the story line of her book, what motivated her to write, and how she brought her experiences from the prosecutor's office to bear on her writing. She describes her writing as an opportunity to explore her own cultural heritage. Martinez discusses the art of writing and talks about what she reads. Martinez is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Young Investigator: Michelle J Yoo
No full text Supervisor’s supporting comments I have always been impressed with Michelle’s ability to conduct research in an independent and yet highly effective manner. Part of her research in my group has examined the use of affinity columns to examine drug–protein binding with serum proteins, such as human serum albumin. This work is extremely important to the fields of pharmaceutical chemistry and clinical chemistry in providing the data needed for the development of new drugs or in the optimization of treatments for patients with new, or existing, drugs. Another topic that Michelle has examined in her research is the use of new supports based on monolithic materials and ultrafast-extraction methods for affinity-based separations of biological samples and high-throughput screening of drug–protein binding. She was the lead author on a review written on this topic and also has several research publications related to this area of work. During her graduate studies, Michelle has emerged as a real leader in my group. She has excellent people and communication skills and is highly motivated in her pursuit of an advanced degree in analytical chemistry and bioanalysis. I have extremely high expectations for her in the future as she continues her career. Nominated by: David S Hage, University of Nebraska, Department of Chemistry, Hamilton Hall 704, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA </jats:p
Galician inflected infinitives: a dataset containing grammaticality judgements and sociolinguistic factors
No full textThe data was collected between 2016 and 2018 with the help of an online audio questionnaire using qualtrics software. For further details concerning the purpose of the data collection and the analysis of the results, see the following two publications:Sheehan, Michelle, M. Carmen Parfait Couto and J. Blokzijl(to appear). Inflected infinitives in Galician. To appear in I. Vogel, T. Miller & K. Kostyzsyn (eds.), Selected papers from LSRL 47.Sheehan, Michelle, M. Carmen Parfait Couto and Martin Schäfer (2019). Crowdsourcing and minority languages: the case of Galician inflected infinitives. Frontiers in Psychology - Language Science.When using the data, please be sure to cite the data itself as well as the above mentioned publications where appropriate.For the structure of the data, please see the README file. For the data itself, see the .csv file.</div
Head-initial postpositional phrases in North Sámi
No full textMost adpositions in North Sámi are postpositions – they follow their complements in the surface order. Nouns, on the other hand, invariably precede their complements. Strikingly, when the nominal complement of a postposition has its own complement, the complement of the noun follows after the postposition, so that the nominal phrase ends up being discontinuous,split by the postposition. This is an indication that North Sámi postpositions are prepositions underlyingly, and that the surface order is the result of the complement of P moving to the Spec of a higher functional head. The complement of the noun is however spelled out in the lower position. Neither the complement stranding approach of Sheehan (2009) nor the FOFC of Holmberg (2000) and Biberauer et al. (2008; 2014) can fully explain this pattern. Instead, in North Sámi a more specific requirement appears to be at work, which dictates that a postposition must follow immediately after the nominal head of its complement. A similar effect is seen with possessors, which precede the possessees but also leave their complements behind in postnominal position
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