{"id":10995,"date":"2018-04-18T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T10:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:42:12","slug":"lf-reading-group-417-hanzhi-zhu-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/04\/18\/lf-reading-group-417-hanzhi-zhu-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 4\/17 - Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/hanzhi\/\">Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Conditionals in <i>although<\/i> constructions<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 18, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I&#8217;ll be looking at biclausal constructions with <i>although<\/i>\/<i>even though<\/i> which convey the truth of two propositions as well as the oddness of their juxtaposition:<\/p>\n<p>1.  John went out for a walk, even though it&#8217;s raining.<br clear='none'\/>\n2.  Although Bailey is rich, she doesn&#8217;t give to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The link between <i>although<\/i> constructions and conditionals has been explored in previous accounts, in which &#8220;although p, q&#8221; is analyzed as presupposing &#8220;normally, if p then \u00acq&#8221;.  However, these accounts ignore the compositional contribution of <i>even<\/i>, which appears in these constructions in English as well as cross-linguistically.  Lund (2017), borrowing from Guerzoni and Lim&#8217;s (2007) account of <i>even if<\/i>, proposes an account in which &#8220;although p, q&#8221; asserts a conjunction and has a scalar likelihood presupposition: \u00acp and q is less likely\/expected than p and q.  I&#8217;ll present a counterexample to this account which favors having a presupposition even closer to Guerzoni and Lim&#8217;s proposal for <i>even if<\/i>: &#8220;although p, q&#8221; presupposes that if \u00acp, q is less likely\/expected than if p, q.  I&#8217;ll also discuss further consequences of this proposal regarding the role of the additive presupposition of <i>even<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Hanzhi Zhu (MIT) Title: Conditionals in although constructions Date and time: Wednesday, April 18, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I&#8217;ll be looking at biclausal constructions with although\/even though which convey the truth of two propositions as well as the oddness of their juxtaposition: 1. John went out for a walk, even though [&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-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","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=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10999,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions\/10999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}