{"id":10101,"date":"2017-08-28T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2017-08-28T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:00:46","slug":"lfrg-0830-marie-christine-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/08\/28\/lfrg-0830-marie-christine-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 08\/30 -  Marie-Christine Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mariechristinemeyer\/\">Marie-Christine Meyer<\/a> (ZAS Berlin)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Sound Patterns of Exhaustification<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wedensday August 30, 1:00-2:00pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this talk I will suggest a compositional semantics for certain intonational contours, arguing that the falling (LL%) and rising (LH%) boundary tones are what I call weak and strong exhaustification morphemes. These morphemes occur together with a L+H* pitch accent in constructions that have been studied under the names of Meta-linguistic Negation (e.g. Horn 1989), Contrastive Negation (e.g. McCawley 1991), and Contrastive Focus (e.g. Bolinger 1965, Rooth 1985), whereas intonational tunes like L+H*LH% have been studied in relation to their use as indicating speaker uncertainty and\/or contrastive topics (e.g. B\u00fcring 1997, 2003).<br clear='none'\/>\nI will show how the semantic\/pragmatic contribution of these intonational tunes across constructions is mediated by (i) the semantics of L+H* and LL% or LH% (ii) economy principles like Efficiency (Meyer 2013, 2015), (iii) quantifier domain restriction of LL% and LH%, which allows for the possibility of anaphora between the levels of presupposed and exhaustified (i.e. asserted) content (e.g. Karttunen & Peters 1979, von Fintel 1994) as well as contextual symmetry breaking of ALT (cf. Fox & Katzir 2011), and (iv) independent constraints on structural alternatives (Katzir 2007).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Marie-Christine Meyer (ZAS Berlin) Title: Sound Patterns of Exhaustification Date and time: Wedensday August 30, 1:00-2:00pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk I will suggest a compositional semantics for certain intonational contours, arguing that the falling (LL%) and rising (LH%) boundary tones are what I call weak and strong exhaustification morphemes. These morphemes occur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}