SHLONSKY COLLOQUIUM

This Friday, October 12, at 1:20 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210, there will be a colloquium by Ur Shlonsky, Université de Genève. His talk is entitled “Subjects of copular constructions.” The abstract is given belowː

“Hebrew copular sentences look like root small clauses: “Daniela balshanit” (Daniela is a linguist’). I argue that they are not or rather, that they contain a (perhaps surprisingly) rich functional structure. The subject, Daniela, although initial in the string, can occupy distinct subject positions. I try to identify and characterize these positions and propose a cartography of subject positions in copular sentences.”