{"id":10498,"date":"2017-10-16T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10498"},"modified":"2017-10-17T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T03:20:51","slug":"lfrg-1018-alexander-wimmer-universitat-tubingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/10\/16\/lfrg-1018-alexander-wimmer-universitat-tubingen\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 10\/18 -  Alexander Wimmer (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/apwimmer\/\">Alexander Wimmer<\/a> (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Outscoping exclusion<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday October 18, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Chinese focus particle <em>ji\u00f9<\/em> is known to have both exclusive and nonexclusive readings, and to carry an evaluative component of easiness (Hole 2004, Liu 2016). I follow Liu (2016) in assuming that <em>ji\u00f9<\/em> has an exclusive assertion and a scalar presupposition according to which the prejacent ranks lowest on a scale of alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>My first aim is to support this presupposition, and to check whether it should be supplemented by the truth of <em>ji\u00f9<\/em>\u0092s prejacent.<\/p>\n<p>I then want to consider the option of getting the nonexclusive reading by having a covert existential modal take scope above <em>ji\u00f9<\/em> at Logical Form, reducing the particle\u0092s exclusiveness to a mere possibility. This option is inspired by a passage in Beck & Rullmann (1999), who decompose sufficiency into the components POSSIBLE and ONLY.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Alexander Wimmer (Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen) Title: Outscoping exclusion Date and time: Wednesday October 18, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: The Chinese focus particle ji\u00f9 is known to have both exclusive and nonexclusive readings, and to carry an evaluative component of easiness (Hole 2004, Liu 2016). I follow Liu (2016) in assuming that ji\u00f9 has an exclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}