{"id":11092,"date":"2018-05-07T06:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2018-05-07T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:06:53","slug":"lf-reading-group-59-naomi-francis-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/05\/07\/lf-reading-group-59-naomi-francis-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 5\/9 - Naomi Francis (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/nfrancis.scripts.mit.edu\/web\/\">Naomi Francis (MIT)<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> Presupposition-denying uses of <i>even<\/i><br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, May 9, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This talk explores a puzzle about how even interacts with presupposition-denying discourse moves. Even can be used in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions, but only if it appears below negation (1).<\/p>\n<p>(1) A: Did Kenji&#8217;s wife go to the picnic? Presupposes: Kenji has a wife, i.e. is married.<br clear='none'\/>\nB: He isn&#8217;t even married!<br clear='none'\/>\nB&#8217;: #He&#8217;s even unmarried!<\/p>\n<p>I present a solution to this puzzle that makes crucial use of the additive presupposition of <i>even<\/i>. This presupposition requires that, in addition to the prejacent (the sentence that hosts <i>even<\/i>) being true, at least one of its focus alternatives must be true as well. I propose that the relevant focus alternatives in this context all contain the trigger (<i>Kenji&#8217;s wife<\/i>) for the presupposition that the prejacent denies, meaning that they are incompatible with it. This means that the additive presupposition of <i>even<\/i> can only be satisfied if the presupposition that Kenji has a wife is appropriately &#8220;cancelled&#8221; within the alternatives, which I argue is only possible when these alternatives contain sentential negation (1B). Drawing on data from German, Greek, Russian, and Hebrew, I show that the contrast in (1) is not unique to English and that the proposed solution makes good crosslinguistic predicitons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Naomi Francis (MIT) Title: Presupposition-denying uses of even Date and time: Wednesday, May 9, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk explores a puzzle about how even interacts with presupposition-denying discourse moves. Even can be used in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions, but only if it appears below negation (1). (1) A: Did Kenji&#8217;s wife [&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-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","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=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11098,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}