Saturday, July the 13th, 2019
9:00-9:30 Introduction au workshop
9:30-10:30 Invited talk: Anne Abeillé
Voice mismatch and peripheral ellipsis (with Aoi Shiraishi)
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30 Vahideh Rasekhi and Jesse Harris
Interpreting Ambiguous Stripping Sentences in Persian: A Naturalness Rating Study
11:30-12:10 Marju Kaps, Jesse Harris and John Gluckman
Resolving ambiguous VP ellipsis in eye tracking: A case for underspecification
12:10-13:40 Lunch Break
13:40-14:20 Gabriela Bîlbîie, Israel de la Fuente et Anne Abeillé
An experimental perspective on factivity and complementizer omission in English Gapping
14:20-15:00 Yara Alshaalan
Is there syntax at the e-site? Acceptability experiments on Saudi Arabic Sluicing
15:00-15:40 Duk-Ho Jung and Grant Goodall
Backward sprouting is not sensitive to islands
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:40 Philip Miller
Constraints on Remnants in Pseudogapping: An Experimental Approach
16:40-17:40 Invited talk: Pranav Anand (UCSC, Santa Cruz)
Identity and mismatch: the view from sluicing
18:00-19:00 Round table on sharing experimental and corpus data for research on ellipsis
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Voice mismatch and peripheral ellipsis (with Aoi Shiraishi)
Anne Abeillé (LLF)
Voice mismatch has been extensively studied for VP ellipsis (a.o Kehler 2002, Kertz 2013), and less so for pseudogapping (Miller 2014), and claimed to be impossible for other kind of ellipsis (Merchant 2012). We review some recent results about Right Node raising based on corpus studies and experimental studies in French. They show (i) that voice mismatch is possible (ii) that given the right semantic context, it does not lead to a degradation in acceptability judgements, contrary to Voice mismatch in VP ellipsis. We draw some conclusions about ellipsis and identity conditions.
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Identity and mismatch: the view from sluicing
Pranav Anand (UCSC, Santa Cruz)
One of the animating questions in theoretical treatments of sluicing, and ellipsis in general, has been the extent to which elliptical content needs to match the antecedent. This talk will attempt to delineate what kinds of mismatch are tolerated in naturally-occurring instances of sluicing, based on an in-depth examination of roughly 5,000 instances of sluicing in the New York Times sub-section of the Gigaword corpus. I will argue that a wide array of morphosyntactic and semantic mismatches are attested, but those related to argument structural mismatch are systematically absent. In this way, the result confirms many empirical claims made in the literature, while at the same time challenging most existing theories of identity. I will close by providing a sketch of what a more accurate theory should look like.