Sabina Matyiku presents paper at WCCFL 32

March 14, 2014

This past weekend, PhD candidate Sabina Matyiku presented work from her dissertation at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 32, held at USC in Los Angeles. In her talk, titled “Semantic effects of head movement in Negative Auxiliary Inversion constructions,” Sabina presented the phenomenon of negative auxiliary inversion found in some varieties of English spoken in Texas. She showed how it provides two types of evidence that head movement has semantic effects: (1) head movement of negation shares properties with generalized quantifiers, and (2) head movement of negation licenses NPI and n-word subjects.

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