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Maria Polinsky (Quirk Fellow) Workshops - Day 1

15 May 2017

Time: 10:00 - 12:00am
Venue: ArtsOne 1.28

Thanks to a generous donation from The Lord Quirk (CBE, FBA, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of London), the Randolph Quirk Fellowship has been established at QMUL. This year, we are delighted to announce that the first Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Maria Polinsky, who will give a series of 3 workshops as well as a public lecture.

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Workshops Day 1

Prosody of information structure: Evidence from Georgian

This workshop will use novel data from Georgian to argue that (i) this language does not have a dedicated syntactic projection for housing focus and wh-items, (ii) information structure is read off minimal syntactic structure, and (iii) information structure is determined by Georgian-specific requirements on the realization of prosodic prominence.

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