{"id":11641,"date":"2018-11-05T06:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2018-11-04T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:47:58","slug":"ling-lunch-118-giuseppe-ricciardi-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/11\/05\/ling-lunch-118-giuseppe-ricciardi-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 11\/8 -  Giuseppe Ricciardi (Harvard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>Speaker:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/giuseppe-ricciardi\">Giuseppe Ricciardi<\/a> (Harvard)<\/p>\n<div><b>Title: <\/b>&#8220;She must be mad&#8221; Really? Must? Epistemic must statements are felt &#8220;weak&#8221; because they are usually false [work with Edward Gibson and Rachel A. Ryskin]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Thursday, 11\/8, 12:30-1:50pm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract:<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Two main hypotheses have been proposed in the literature about the semantics of epistemic &#8216;must&#8217;. The Strong Must Hypothesis (von Fintel &amp; Gillies, 2010) and the Weak Must Hypothesis (Karttunen, 1972; Kratzer, 1981; Lassiter, 2017). Lassiter (2016) offers an experiment whose results support the Weak Must Hypothesis. I argue that Lassiter (2016)\u0092s task is invalid for testing participants\u0092 competence about truth-conditions of statements and I show that if one modifies Lassiter\u0092s task so that participants understand it as a truth-value task then the results support the Strong Must Hypothesis over the Weak Must Hypothesis. Moreover, Lassiter (2016) offers some weak uses of epistemic &#8216;must&#8217; derived from a corpus. I discuss these examples as well and challenge their status as piece of evidence supporting the Weak Must Hypothesis.<br clear='none'\/>\nOverall, I argue for the following claim: the weakness observed since Karttunen (1972) with respect to epistemic &#8216;must&#8217; statements is not due to their being true in weak contexts but to their being systematically falsely uttered in weak contexts. To account for such systematicity, I propose that epistemic &#8216;must&#8217; statements are often used hyperbolically.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Giuseppe Ricciardi (Harvard) Title: &#8220;She must be mad&#8221; Really? Must? Epistemic must statements are felt &#8220;weak&#8221; because they are usually false [work with Edward Gibson and Rachel A. Ryskin] Date and time: Thursday, 11\/8, 12:30-1:50pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: \u00a0 Two main hypotheses have been proposed in the literature about the semantics of epistemic &#8216;must&#8217;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11647,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}