[Ling-Talk] December 4 (Friday 12:30pm - 14:00pm), Henry Y. Chang (張永利)

[Pei-Yi]

Dear all,

We are glad to have Prof. Henry Y. Chang (張永利) as our guest speaker
this Friday. His major research is on Syntax of Formosan languages.
See below for the talk information. Please note that the talk will
start at 12:30pm. Thanks.


Your Ling-Talk@NTHU co-organizers,
Pei-Yi, Chao-Lin & Hui-Chin

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Invited speaker: Henry Y. Chang (Academia Sinica)
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Date: 12/4 (Friday)
Place: Room C519, CHSS
Title: Adverbial compounds versus adverbial verbs in Tsou

Abstract: http://ling.nthu.edu.tw/ustwpl/lingtalk/index.html
This paper distinguishes between adverbial compounds and adverbial
verbs in Tsou. An adverbial verb comprises an adverbial root and an
adverbial prefix, while an adverbial compound consists of an adverbial
root and an event-denoting prefix. It is argued that an adverbial verb
is generated as a functional head above Voice/vP, whereas an adverbial
compound is generated as a lexical head under Voice/vP. The structural
analysis accounts for a number of otherwise puzzling asymmetries,
including the following: (i) an adverbial compound can stand alone and
take nominal arguments but an adverbial verb cannot; (ii) an adverbial
compound can be marked for Locative Voice and Referential Voice but an
adverbial verb cannot; (iii) the root of an adverbial compound is
restricted to event adverbials, but the root of an adverbial verb is
free from this restriction; (iv) the prefix of an adverbial compound
can be voice-marked, but the prefix of an adverbial verb is invariant;
and (v) an adverbial verb must precede an adverbial compound, not the
other way around.