{"id":11618,"date":"2018-10-29T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2018-10-28T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:28:26","slug":"mit-colloquium-112-lisa-matthewson-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/10\/29\/mit-colloquium-112-lisa-matthewson-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 11\/2: Lisa Matthewson (UBC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.ubc.ca\/person\/lisa-matthewson\/\">Lisa Matthewson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(UBC) <strong> <br clear='none'\/>\n Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Micro-variation in discourse particles: From St\u0092\u00e1t\u0092imcets to German\u00a0(joint work with Henry Davis)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, November 2nd, 3:30-5pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Place:\u00a0<\/strong>32-155<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discourse particles convey information about the discourse status of propositions and the belief states of interlocutors. They are cross-linguistically understudied, and there is little understanding of what makes a possible vs. impossible particle meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Investigating micro-variation offers a route towards eventually answering the big-picture questions. In this talk we examine the St\u0092\u00e1t\u0092imcets (Salish) \u0091frustrative\u0092 particle, and compare it to similar elements in Tohono O\u0092odham, Kimaragang and German. We argue that the particles micro-vary in properties including whether the prejacent is entailed, (lack of) reference to the common ground, (lack of) reference to a salient proposition, and (a)symmetry of contrast entailments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Lisa Matthewson\u00a0(UBC) Title:\u00a0Micro-variation in discourse particles: From St\u0092\u00e1t\u0092imcets to German\u00a0(joint work with Henry Davis) Time:\u00a0Friday, November 2nd, 3:30-5pm Place:\u00a032-155 Abstract: Discourse particles convey information about the discourse status of propositions and the belief states of interlocutors. They are cross-linguistically understudied, and there is little understanding of what makes a possible vs. impossible particle meaning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11619,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}