Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Dr. Noam Faust, Université Paris 8
As part of the department’s weekly research colloquium,
held every Thursday from 16:15 to 17:45 in the Webb Building,
the following lecture by Dr. Noam Faust from Université Paris 8 will take place:
Pivoting away from isomorphism: Content, Sound, and Constituent Structure
Abstract:
So-called complex prepositions, composed of a preposition and a nominal, abound in Modern Hebrew (e.g., li-χvod ha-χag ‘on the occasion of the holiday’). They present a mismatch between constituent structure and Content. The P+N sequence often carries listed, idiosyncratic Content and form, but its N member forms a construct constituent with its DP complement, to the exclusion of P. The talk conducts a thorough empirical examination establishing that the N heads a constituent excluding P. It is then argued that non-compositional Content for the non-constituent P+N is available if Content is not delimited by constituent structure, but by Spans (Svenonius 2012, 2016), themselves demarcated by morpho-syntactic constraints. Content is further claimed to be listed in its phonological form, as opposed to abstract root indices with context-dependent allosemes.
This lecture will be held ONLY via ZOOM in the following link >>
All are welcome!
