| Speaker | David Adger |
| Affiliaton(s) | Queen Mary University of London |
| Date | 27.05.-30.05.2024; jeweils 14:00-16:00 Uhr |
| Time | 14:00 o'clock |
| Venue | ZAS, Pariser Str. 1, 10719 Berlin; Room: Ilse-Zimmermann-Raum 0.32 (Ground floor) |
We are very happy to announce that David Adger (Queen Mary) will visit the ZAS to give a lecture series on a brand new theory of syntax called “Mereological Syntax”. Mereological Syntax argues that the set-theoretic basis for minimalist syntax that has been standard since the mid-1990s should be replaced with one based on mereological objects. The theory replaces the Merge operation of Minimalism with a new operation, Subjoin, which rather than gathering two objects into a set, makes one object part of another. He argues this solves problems with labelling and copies, and opens up a new perspective on successive cyclicity and island phenomena.
The four lectures are scheduled to take place on May 27 – 30 2024, starting at 14h sharp and until 16h:
May 27 -- Lecture 1: Sets vs Parts in Syntax: Subjoin
May 28 -- Lecture 2: Angular Locality, Successive Cyclicity and Linearization
May 29 -- Lecture 3: Tackling Islands I: Wh-Islands and Multiple Wh-constructions
May 30 -- Lecture 4: Tackling Islands II: Nominal Islands, Specificity and Subjecthood