{"id":10836,"date":"2018-02-20T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:05:20","slug":"linglunch-223-hanzhi-zhu-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/02\/20\/linglunch-223-hanzhi-zhu-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 2\/22: Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/hanzhi\/\">Hanzhi Zhu<\/a> (UMass-Amherst)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0A scalar presupposition for a<i>lready<\/i><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday, February 22, 12:30-1:50pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The particles\u00a0<i>still<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>already<\/i>\u00a0<wbr \/>are commonly thought of and analyzed as particles that mirror the other (L\u00f6bner 1989, Krifka 2000, Ippolito 2007, inter alia).\u00a0 The particle\u00a0<i>still<\/i>\u00a0has been robustly argued to have an additive presupposition in the same vein as particles like\u00a0<i>too<\/i>.\u00a0 Previous accounts\u00a0attempt to formulate\u00a0<i>already<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>as also having an additive presupposition, capturing the putative duality of the two particles<i>.\u00a0<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>However, I argue that such approaches are untenable, motivated by asymmetries between the two particles as exemplified in the following pair:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>(1)\u00a0\u00a0<i>You wake up after a full night of sleep, estimating that it&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1867822783\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7am.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/i><i>You check your clock.<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Wow, it&#8217;s\u00a0already\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1867822784\"><span class=\"aQJ\">9am<\/span><\/span>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>(2)\u00a0\u00a0<i>You wake up after a full night of sleep, estimating that it&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1867822785\"><span class=\"aQJ\">9am.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0You check your clock.<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0#Wow, it&#8217;s still\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1867822786\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7am<\/span><\/span>!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I propose that\u00a0<i>already<\/i>\u00a0does not have an additive presupposition but instead an\u00a0<i>even<\/i>-style\u00a0scalar\u00a0&#8217;<wbr \/>likelihood&#8217; presupposition enriched with an exhaustivity operator.\u00a0 This analysis will offer empirical improvements over previous analyses, notably in its ability to capture the earlier-than-expected inference conveyed by\u00a0<i>already<\/i>.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Hanzhi Zhu (UMass-Amherst) Title:\u00a0A scalar presupposition for already Date and time: Thursday, February 22, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0 The particles\u00a0still\u00a0and\u00a0already\u00a0are commonly thought of and analyzed as particles that mirror the other (L\u00f6bner 1989, Krifka 2000, Ippolito 2007, inter alia).\u00a0 The particle\u00a0still\u00a0has been robustly argued to have an additive presupposition in the same vein as particles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}