Dustin Chacón to present at CUNY Syntax Supper

Dustin Chacón will be presenting his work on head movement in the Bangla DP at the CUNY Syntax Supper on November 1st.

Dustin Chacón will be presenting his work on head movement in the Bangla DP at the CUNY Syntax Supper on Nov. 1st. He will argue that the complex feeding and bleeding relationships between noun-to-classifier substitution and classifier-raising in the Quantificational Approximateness construction show that certain word formation operations must be ordered before and after syntactic operations. This means that the common belief that head movement effects are entirely post-syntactic is not a tenable one, and suggests a four-tiered DP structure (as in Tang's (1990) or Borer's (2005) work) with distinct numeral and number/classifier projections. Title of Paper: "Word Formation before and after Spellout, or, Deriving Simpson's Conjecture"