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  8. 2016

Professor Giuseppe Longobardi 'On Genitive and other Checked Cases' | 2 March 2016

2 March 2016

Time: 8:51am
Venue: Francis Bancroft (FB) 3.40

Professor Giuseppe Longobardi

University of York

'On Genitive and other Checked Cases'

Abstract: Along the lines of Benveniste (1966), it will be argued that Genitive has some salient behaviour of Nominative and Accusative and it will be proposed that crosslinguistically it is systematically ambiguous between a semantic and a formal Case, an ambiguity reflected in the polymorphy characterising its realizations in many languages. Further, it will be argued that only formal Cases, which could not have an interpretation at LF, need be checked. Conditions on Case checking, in addition to free riding on agreement, will be provided and defined in terms of Spec, head, and complement positions, and of overt and covert movements,and shown to apply to certain instances of Genitive (and probably Dative), to Nominative and Accusative.

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