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SUMMARY:Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City.  A look at co-referential complex sentences"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Berenice Darwich\, Hispanic Linguistics\, CUNY Colleges; New York\, New York.\nAbstract: \nThe variable phenomenon of subject expression\, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences\, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City. \nBy taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate)\, the study will address the following questions: \nIs there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?\nIs there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?\nIs there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties? \nThe hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context\, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message\, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence. \nResults confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers\, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context\, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered\, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers. \nThese findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berenice-darwich-continuity-and-discontinuity-in-syntactic-patterns-in-new-york-city-a-look-at-co-referential-complex-sentences-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond\, from Malthus to Von Mises). \nWarren Montag is Brown Family Professor of Literature in the English Department at Occidental College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-montag-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature\, English Department\, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Louis Althusser\, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes\, Hobbes\, Spinoza\, Locke\, Swift\, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press\,2013)\, and he has also published translations of Althusser\, Pierre Macherey\, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book\, co-authored with Mike Hill\, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention\, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/warren-montag-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T160000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g.\, a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition\, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from that hypothesis space\, based on the language input encountered. I discuss quantitative metrics based on an argument from acquisition for comparing knowledge representations and the grammars they define. These metrics involve assessing grammar learnability from realistic input data\, and I use them to evaluate three prominent knowledge representations in the domain of metrical phonology that each define a grammar for English. Somewhat surprisingly\, I discover that learnability issues arise for the English grammars in all three representations. I discuss aspects of the proposed English grammars that may be hurting learnability as well as ways a child may still be able to learn the proposed English grammars from English input. \nLisa Pearl is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-lisa-pearl-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this talk\, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage\nspeakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000\, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009\, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics. \nSince the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features\, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However\, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers. \nIn addition\, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead\, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty. \nSpeaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin\, Eau Claire
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcela-depiante-preposition-stranding-in-heritage-speakers-of-spanish-implications-for-the-interface-hypothesis-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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