{"id":11315,"date":"2018-09-10T06:04:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T10:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11315"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:11:46","slug":"lf-reading-group-910-vincent-rouillard-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/10\/lf-reading-group-910-vincent-rouillard-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 9\/10 - Vincent Rouillard (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Vincent Rouillard (MIT)<\/div>\n<div><strong>Title:<\/strong> Hurford&#8217;s constraints and inquisitive semantics\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, September 12, 1-2 pm<\/div>\n<div><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In this presentation, I will be discussing Ciardelli and Roelofsen&#8217;s 2017 paper &#8221;Hurford&#8217;s constraint, the semantics of disjunction, and the nature of alternatives&#8221;. This paper compares the treatment of Hurford disjunctions\u00a0in interrogatives\u00a0\u00a0within the frameworks of alternative semantics and inquisitive semantics. The authors argue that the framework of inquisitive semantics, whose basic assumptions will be covered in the presentation, facilitates a unified treatment of Hurford phenomena in both declaratives and interrogatives.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Vincent Rouillard (MIT) Title: Hurford&#8217;s constraints and inquisitive semantics\u00a0 Date and time: Wednesday, September 12, 1-2 pm Location: 32-D461 \u00a0 Abstract: \u00a0 In this presentation, I will be discussing Ciardelli and Roelofsen&#8217;s 2017 paper &#8221;Hurford&#8217;s constraint, the semantics of disjunction, and the nature of alternatives&#8221;. This paper compares the treatment of Hurford disjunctions\u00a0in interrogatives\u00a0\u00a0within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}