Last Friday I gave a talk at UChicago in their Weekly Morphology & Syntax Workshop. My slides are below:
It had been a while since I’d presented my own work anywhere, so there was a process of “learning how to do this again” involved—which was interesting—and I didn’t fully know what I was going to say until about 3 hours before the talk.
My topic was the theoretical explanation of coordination, comparing Parallel Derivation—which I used to explain adjunction—with Chomsky et al‘s FormSet[1]FormSet is a refinement of the earlier FormSequence. Most comparisons with FormSet also apply to FormSequence.. I have been thinking about the application of Parallel Derivation (PD) to coordination for as long as I’ve had the idea for PD, and about its comparison with FormSet since I first read a description of its precursor but, as is always the case, I discovered a few things through the act if writing these thoughts down and an expressing them to to other syntactiticans.
The next thing to do, I guess, is to write these discoveries down and express them to other syntacticians.
Notes
| ↑1 | FormSet is a refinement of the earlier FormSequence. Most comparisons with FormSet also apply to FormSequence. |
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