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SUMMARY:Frances Blanchette and Deborah Morton
DESCRIPTION:“The Syntax and Semantics of Unrealized Action: Evidence fro
m Anii”\n\nDr. Frances Blanchette\, Assistant Research Professor of Psyc
hology\, Assistant Director of the Center for Language Science\n\n&\;
\n\nDr. Deborah Morton\, Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistics and
African Studies\n\nFriday\, November 11\, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT\, 127 Moo
re Building and virtually via Zoom\n\nThe notion of unrealized action\,
often called “irrealis” in the linguistics literature\, plays relatively
little role in the overt syntax and semantics of most well-studied lang
uages like English. However\, in many languages\, this notion plays a pr
ominent role in the grammar. Gιsιɖa Anii\, spoken in West Africa\, is on
e such language. In this presentation we will illustrate how irrealis fu
nctions in Anii grammar\, and describe an analysis that explains why it
must appear in certain types of sentences in this language. We then disc
uss broader implications\, including the role of unrealized action as a
fundamental semantic concept that plays an important role in natural lan
guage\, even in languages that do not express it overtly.\n\nFor more de
tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/frances-blanchette-and-deborah-mo
rton/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:“The Syntax and Semantics of Unrealized Action: Evid
ence from Anii”
Dr. Fr
ances Blanchette, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, Assistant
Director of the Center for Language Science
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Dr. Deborah Morton, Assistant Teaching Professor o
f Linguistics and African Studies
Friday, November 11, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT, 127 Moore Building
and virtually via Zoom
The notion of unrealized action,
often called “irrealis” in the linguistics literature, plays relatively
little role in the overt syntax and semantics of most well-studied langu
ages like English. However, in many languages, this notion plays a promi
nent role in the grammar. Gιsιɖa Anii, spoken in West Africa, is one suc
h language. In this presentation we will illustrate how irrealis functio
ns in Anii grammar, and describe an analysis that explains why it must a
ppear in certain types of sentences in this language. We then discuss br
oader implications, including the role of unrealized action as a fundame
ntal semantic concept that plays an important role in natural language,
even in languages that do not express it overtly.
For more details
: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/frances-blanchette-and-debora
h-morton/
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