{"id":10889,"date":"2018-03-05T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10889"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:57:27","slug":"lf-reading-group-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/03\/05\/lf-reading-group-37\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 3\/7 - Itai Bassi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/ibassi\/\">Itai Bassi<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Fake Indexicals without feature transmission<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday March 7, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a footnote, Partee (1989) mentioned that 1st person pronouns can be semantically bound (&#8220;fake indexicals&#8221;), pointing to sentence (1). That footnote generated a line of research (Kratzer 1998, Kratzer 2009, Wurmbrand 2017; Heim 2008) according to which bound variables (can) enter the syntactic derivation lacking interpreted phi-features, and inherit features from their binder at the PF branch, as a result of some &#8220;feature transmission&#8221; mechanism(s).<\/p>\n<p>(1) I am the only one around here who will admit that <i><u>I<\/u><\/i> could be wrong<br clear='none'\/>\n &#8212;&gt; the speaker is the only individual in {x: x is willing to admit that <i><u>x<\/u><\/i> could be wrong}<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I offer a formal syntax-semantics for this construction which derives a bound reading for (1) while maintaining that the bound &#8220;I&#8221; has its person feature interpreted, rendering feature transmission unnecessary. My proposal is to reduce (1) to focus constructions like (2), for which there are alternatives to the feature-transmission story (Bassi and Longenbaugh 2017, a.o.). I will thus propose, building on a suggestion made in Bhatt (2002), that the construction in (1) involves silent association with focus. In addition, I show how my proposal can account for the contrast between (1) and the minimally different (3), which does not have a bound reading for &#8220;I&#8221; and constitutes a problem for existing feature-transmission analyses (Wurmbrand, Kratzer).<\/p>\n<p>(2) Only I will admit that <i><u>I<\/u><\/i> could be wrong<\/p>\n<p>(3) I met the only one around here who will admit that I could be wrong (no bound reading)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Itai Bassi Title: Fake Indexicals without feature transmission Date and time: Wednesday March 7, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In a footnote, Partee (1989) mentioned that 1st person pronouns can be semantically bound (&#8220;fake indexicals&#8221;), pointing to sentence (1). That footnote generated a line of research (Kratzer 1998, Kratzer 2009, Wurmbrand 2017; Heim 2008) according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889","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=10889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10905,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10889\/revisions\/10905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}