{"id":10556,"date":"2017-10-23T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2017-10-23T01:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:12:32","slug":"lfrg-1025-hanzhi-zhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/10\/23\/lfrg-1025-hanzhi-zhu\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/25 - Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/hanzhi\/\">Hanzhi Zhu<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Mandarin <i>cai<\/i>: &#8216;only&#8217; and what else?<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday October 25, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Mandarin focus particle <i>c\u00e1i<\/i> has (at least) three readings: a scalar only reading (1), a temporal reading (2), and an &#8220;only if&#8221; conditional (3).<\/p>\n<p>1. Lee is only\/merely a novice.<br clear='none'\/>\n2. John arrived only at midnight.<br clear='none'\/>\n3. Only if the weather&#8217;s good will I go jogging.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll explore existing accounts of the semantics of <i>cai<\/i>.  Although the exclusive component of this particle is generally agreed upon, accounts differ on how to treat the additional meaning component(s) that the various readings of <i>cai<\/i> contribute.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Hanzhi Zhu (MIT) Title: Mandarin cai: &#8216;only&#8217; and what else? Date and time: Wednesday October 25, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: The Mandarin focus particle c\u00e1i has (at least) three readings: a scalar only reading (1), a temporal reading (2), and an &#8220;only if&#8221; conditional (3). 1. Lee is only\/merely a novice. 2. John arrived [&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-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","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=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10564,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}