{"id":10730,"date":"2017-12-11T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2017-12-11T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:14:41","slug":"lf-reading-group-1213-sarah-zobel-university-of-tuebingenmit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/12\/11\/lf-reading-group-1213-sarah-zobel-university-of-tuebingenmit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 12\/13 - Sarah Zobel (University of Tuebingen\/MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahzobel.net\/\">Sarah Zobel<\/a> (University of Tuebingen\/MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Do weak adjunct &#8216;as&#8217;-phrases restrict individual quantifiers?<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday December 13, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The central observation in the literature on free adjuncts is that weak adjuncts can be understood as restricting temporal and modal quantifiers (see Stump 1985): weak adjuncts co-occurring with these types of quantifiers are ambiguous between a restricting and a non-restricting, causal-adverbial-clause like meaning, as in (1-a). Strong adjuncts, in contrast, can only have a non-restricting interpretation, as in (1-b).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1) a. As a 10-year-old, Peter liked gingerbread. (weak)<br clear='none'\/>\n(Possible: When Peter was 10 years old, he liked gingerbread. [interaction with [PAST])<br clear='none'\/>\n(Possible: Since Peter is 10 years old, he liked gingerbread.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">b. Being 10 years old, Peter liked gingerbread. (strong)<br clear='none'\/>\n(Not possible: When Peter was 10 years old, he liked gingerbread. [interaction with [PAST])<br clear='none'\/>\n(Possible: Since Peter is 10 years old, he liked gingerbread.)<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I address the question whether weak adjuncts (using `as&#8217;-phrases), as in (2), can be understood as restricting nominal quantifiers, and, if not, how the intuitive interpretations found with these examples can be accounted for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(2) a. As a child, every guest likes gingerbread.<br clear='none'\/>\nb. As tourists, most visitors own cameras.<\/p>\n<p>I show that the intuitive interpretation of the examples in (2) are not compatible with these `as&#8217;-phrases restricting the quantifiers `every guest&#8217; and `most visitors&#8217; in the same manner as observed for temporal and modal quantifiers. I propose that the intuitive interpretation found in these cases is the result of two properties of the &#8216;as&#8217;-phrases: (i) they associate with the individual quantifiers via Non-Obligatory Control, which I analyze similar to discourse anaphora, and (ii) they are not interpreted in the scope of their associated individual quantifiers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sarah Zobel (University of Tuebingen\/MIT) Title: Do weak adjunct &#8216;as&#8217;-phrases restrict individual quantifiers? Date and time: Wednesday December 13, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: The central observation in the literature on free adjuncts is that weak adjuncts can be understood as restricting temporal and modal quantifiers (see Stump 1985): weak adjuncts co-occurring with these types [&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-10730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730","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=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}