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:16989-039b9283d36f2054ea2b49122d6b1cdd@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260508T045232Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T103000 SUMMARY:Dr. Tran Truong DESCRIPTION:\n"Constraints on Irregularity"\n\nDr. Tran Truong\, Assisti ng Teaching Professor of Linguistics at Penn State\n\nFriday\, December 9\, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EST\, 127 Moore Building and virtually via Zoom\n\nM orphological contiguity domains are pockets of natural language grammar in which non-contiguous suppletion and syncretism are prohibited\, givin g the appearance of so-called *ABA distributions. These domains have sho wn great initial promise as a possible diagnostic for syntactic hierarch ical structure\, and have been observed in the morphosyntax of pronouns\ , case\, number\, gender\, tense\, possessives\, negation\, inter multis sima alia. This talk argues that *ABA domains are heterogeneous in etiol ogy (i.e.\, how they emerge diachronically) and derivation (i.e.\, how t hey are generated synchronically). Furthermore\, it demonstrates that lo ng-noticed universals in the anthropological and linguistic literature o n kinship exemplify *ABA distributions. In the broader perspective\, it emerges that *ABA effects represent a constraint on linguistic structure that is not recapitulated by a similar constraint on cognition.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-tran-truong/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Constr aints on Irregularity"

Dr. Tran Truong, Assisting Teaching Professor of Linguistics at Penn State

Friday, December 9, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EST, 127 Moore Building and virtuall y via Zoom

Morphological contiguity domains are pockets o f natural language grammar in which non-contiguous suppletion and syncre tism are prohibited, giving the appearance of so-called *ABA distributio ns. These domains have shown great initial promise as a possible diagnos tic for syntactic hierarchical structure, and have been observed in the morphosyntax of pronouns, case, number, gender, tense, possessives, nega tion, inter multissima alia. This talk argues that *ABA domains are hete rogeneous in etiology (i.e., how they emerge diachronically) and derivat ion (i.e., how they are generated synchronically). Furthermore, it demon strates that long-noticed universals in the anthropological and linguist ic literature on kinship exemplify *ABA distributions. In the broader pe rspective, it emerges that *ABA effects represent a constraint on lingui stic structure that is not recapitulated by a similar constraint on cogn ition.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-tran-truong/

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