The next Comparative Syntax Meeting will take place on Thursday 17 October.
Speaker: Dafina Ratiu (University of Nantes)
Topic: Sharing at the syntax-semantics interface
Time: 13:15 – 15:00
Venue: Huizinga/023
Abstract
I discuss coordinated questions in Romanian, where two selected WHs (a subject & an object) appear coordinated in clause-initial position and I argue for a multidominant analysis I further address the question of the interpretation of multidominant structures. I propose that the shared material is interpreted in both conjuncts simultaneously ultidominance changes what counts as a constituent I argue that, once we allow two rooted constituents and on the assumption that the interpretation feeds on the syntax then we need a step in the semantic interpretation which interprets a two rooted constituent as such.