Edward Stabler, Professor of Linguistics, UC Los Angeles, will give a talk titled "Head movement after syntax."

ABSTRACT
Much work in Chomskian syntax defends the view that syntactic structures are unordered, with the computation of prosodic form imposing the linear, temporal order of language productions. Treating head movement as part of this post-syntactic process allows us to explain why some basic properties of head movement differ so significantly from phrasal movement. This talk reviews some versions of this idea and formulates an explicit computational model, extending the framework of Yu and Stabler's (2017) treatment of Samoan syntax/prosody. This perspective preserves a rigorous connection to parsing models, but leaves many puzzles, some of which are briefly surveyed here.