{"id":2828,"date":"2023-03-16T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2828"},"modified":"2023-04-16T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T23:16:27","slug":"colloquium-maria-kouneli","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/event\/colloquium-maria-kouneli\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: Maria Kouneli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/nyu.edu\/maria-kouneli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Kouneli<\/a> (University of Leipzig)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement: The view from Kipsigis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of African languages display upwards-oriented complementizer agreement, where the complementizer agrees in phi-features with the matrix subject (e.g., Diercks 2013, Carstens 2016, Letsholo &amp; Safir 2019, Baker 2022). This pattern raises some non-trivial questions about the directionality and locality of Agree. In this talk, I provide an investigation of complementizer agreement in Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya), the only documented case of the phenomenon in the Nilo-Saharan family. Based on data from original fieldwork, I argue that what was previously described as an agreeing \u2018say\u2019-based complementizer in the language (Diercks &amp; Rao 2019, Diercks et al. 2020) is the lexical verb \u2018say\u2019, and what looks like C-Agree is in fact agreement between this verb and its locally introduced (often covert) subject. The analysis highlights that \u2018say\u2019-based complementizers might be of category V, and not C, in some languages (Koopman 1984, Major 2021, among others), which in turn means that some cases of upwards-oriented \u201ccomplementizer\u201d agreement may instantiate standard verbal agreement instead. Genuine cases of complementizer agreement have probably evolved from a Kipsigis-type system; Indirect Agree accounts of the phenomenon, where C agrees with a local silent noun phrase and not directly with the matrix subject (Diercks 2013, Baker 2022) provide a more natural explanation for this diachronic path. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Maria Kouneli (University of Leipzig) Title: Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement: The view from Kipsigis Abstract: A number of African languages display upwards-oriented complementizer agreement, where the complementizer agrees in phi-features &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/event\/colloquium-maria-kouneli\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-2828","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colloquium: Maria Kouneli - Linguistics Graduate Students Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/event\/colloquium-maria-kouneli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colloquium: Maria Kouneli - Linguistics Graduate Students Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaker: Maria Kouneli (University of Leipzig) Title: Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement: The view from Kipsigis Abstract: A number of African languages display upwards-oriented complementizer agreement, where the complementizer agrees in phi-features &hellip; 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