BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16699-b5c1204b026b8a16a2062b9def37ed31@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T204237Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170929T103000 SUMMARY:CLS Speaker Series - Frances Blanchette (Penn State University) Linguis tic Variation and Standard Language Ideology: The Case of Negative Auxi liary Inversion DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Variation and Standard Language Ideology:  \; The Case of Negative Auxiliary Inversion \;\n\nIn this talk I presen t a formal analysis of the English Negative Auxiliary Inversion (NAI) co nstruction (Blanchette &\; Collins 2017). NAI constructions (e.g. ‘Di dn’t many people come’) are string identical to yes/no questions\, and a re employed and interpreted as declaratives. They are found in many Engl ish varieties including Appalachian (Wolfram &\; Christian 1976)\, Af rican American (Green 2002\, 2014)\, and West Texas English (Foreman 199 9). The formal analysis I present captures several syntactic and semanti c properties of NAI\, including (i) the absence of semantic ambiguity de spite the presence of two scope-bearing elements\, (ii) the impossibilit y of definite noun phrases in NAI subject position\, and (iii) the paral lel between NAI subjects and noun phrases that can be directly modified by negation (e.g. ‘not many people’). Extending beyond the formal analys is\, I discuss how NAI constructions might inform our understanding of t he role of standard language ideology (in the sense of Milroy 2001) in s haping synchronic properties as well as linguistic theories of natural l anguage variation.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ cls-speaker-series-frances-blanchette-penn-state-university-linguistic-v ariation-and-standard-language-ideology-the-case-of-negative-auxiliary-i nversion/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Linguistic Variation and Standar d Language Ideology:  The Case of Negative Auxiliary Inversion  ;

In this talk I present a formal analysis of the English Negativ e Auxiliary Inversion (NAI) construction (Blanchette & Collins 2017) . NAI constructions (e.g. ‘Didn’t many people come’) are string identica l to yes/no questions, and are employed and interpreted as declaratives. They are found in many English varieties including Appalachian (Wolfram & Christian 1976), African American (Green 2002, 2014), and West Te xas English (Foreman 1999). The formal analysis I present captures sever al syntactic and semantic properties of NAI, including (i) the absence o f semantic ambiguity despite the presence of two scope-bearing elements, (ii) the impossibility of definite noun phrases in NAI subject position , and (iii) the parallel between NAI subjects and noun phrases that can be directly modified by negation (e.g. ‘not many people’). Extending bey ond the formal analysis, I discuss how NAI constructions might inform ou r understanding of the role of standard language ideology (in the sense of Milroy 2001) in shaping synchronic properties as well as linguistic t heories of natural language variation.

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