{"id":11684,"date":"2018-11-19T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T00:12:23","slug":"lf-reading-group-1121-keny-chatain-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/11\/19\/lf-reading-group-1121-keny-chatain-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 11\/21 - Keny Chatain (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Keny Chatain (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:<\/strong> &#8220;The same&#8221; = the + same ?<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday, November 21, 1-2 pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is work in progress on the semantics of <i>same<\/i>;<i>\u00a0<\/i>I will need your indulgent feedback! Some authors (Barker 2007, a.o.) have puzzled at the obligatory presence of <i>the <\/i>in (1-3), whose effect on the semantics is not readily detectable, and is unnecessary given certain assumptions about the meaning of <i>same<\/i>. If this is so, then <i>same<\/i> enters a small family of operators (along with superlatives, and <i>only<\/i>), which mysteriously seem to weaken the standard Fregean presupposition of the definite.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Alison praised the same poet as Carlos.<br clear='none'\/>\n (2) Alison and Carlos praised the same poet.<br clear='none'\/>\n (3) Every librarian praised the same poet.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this problem, Charnavel (2011) notices a peculiarity of French: in a limited set of environments, French allows <i>a same<\/i> &#8220;un m\u00eame&#8221;. One crucial difference that Charnavel reports between French <i>a same <\/i>and <i>the same <\/i>is a (barely recognizable) Fregean presupposition. Building off of this observation, I will: a) identify the detectable contribution <i>the<\/i> makes to (1-3) in English, using NPI data, b) show that in a scoping account of <i>same <\/i>\u00e0 la Barker, this contribution is readily derived from nothing but the standard semantics of <i>the<\/i>. Finally, I will present some ideas for unifying the use of <i>same <\/i> in (1) and in (2-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keny Chatain (MIT) Title: &#8220;The same&#8221; = the + same ? Date and time: Wednesday, November 21, 1-2 pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is work in progress on the semantics of same;\u00a0I will need your indulgent feedback! Some authors (Barker 2007, a.o.) have puzzled at the obligatory presence of the in (1-3), whose effect [&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-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","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=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}