{"id":11366,"date":"2018-09-17T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T16:14:25","slug":"lf-reading-group-919-christopher-baron-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/17\/lf-reading-group-919-christopher-baron-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 9\/19 - Christopher Baron (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Christopher Baron (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Measure of Change<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, September 19, 1-2 pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, I&#8217;ll discuss Kennedy &amp; Levin&#8217;s (2007) paper, &#8220;Measure of Change.&#8221; The paper discusses so-called Degree Achievements (DAs) like (to) cool,widen, and darken, which describe some kind of change an object undergoes, and which seem to have variable telicity. Kennedy &amp; Levin present and motivate a scalar semantics for DAs, wherein the underlying meaning is a special kind of measure function, systematically related to the measure functions that the adjectival roots of DAs denote, called `measures of change.&#8217; The variable telicity is accounted for on the basis of the structure of the scales that the underlying adjectives make reference to. I&#8217;ll discuss some objections and issues for Kennedy &amp; Levin&#8217;s analysis as well, in particular some that Pi\u00f1\u00f3n (2007) and Kri\u009e (2011) raise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Christopher Baron (MIT) Title: Measure of Change Date and time: Wednesday, September 19, 1-2 pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this presentation, I&#8217;ll discuss Kennedy &amp; Levin&#8217;s (2007) paper, &#8220;Measure of Change.&#8221; The paper discusses so-called Degree Achievements (DAs) like (to) cool,widen, and darken, which describe some kind of change an object undergoes, and which [&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-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","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=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11367,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}