{"id":11811,"date":"2019-02-11T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:58:42","slug":"linglunch-2-14-danfeng-wu-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/02\/11\/linglunch-2-14-danfeng-wu-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 2\/14 - Danfeng Wu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Danfeng Wu (MIT)<br><strong>Title: <\/strong>Syntax of <em>either<\/em> in <em>either\u0085or\u0085 <\/em>sentences <br><strong>Date and time:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday,  2\/14, 12:30-1:50pm<br><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a032-D461<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Either<\/em> in\n<em>either\u0085or\u0085<\/em> sentences can appear as the sister of a disjunction \nphrase (1), higher than the sister of a disjunction phrase (2)-(4), or \nlower (5)-(6), assuming the disjunction phrase is\n<em>rice or beans<\/em> in all these examples (based on observations by Larson (1985), Schwarz (1999), Han and Romero (2004), den Dikken (2006), a.o.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) John will eat either rice or beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2) John will either eat rice or beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(3) John either will eat rice or beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(4) Either John will eat rice or beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(5) John will either eat rice or he will eat beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(6) John either will eat rice or he will eat beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I propose an analysis of\n<em>either<\/em> that accounts for its distribution in these three types of sentences. I argue that there are two copies of\n<em>either<\/em> in an <em>either \u0085 or \u0085<\/em> sentence. <em>Either<\/em> \noriginates inside the disjunction phrase, and later moves (overtly or \ncovertly) to be the sister of the disjunction phrase. In the meantime, \nellipsis may delete material in the second disjunct\n that is identical to its counterpart in the first disjunct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These independent ingredients of the proposal, namely the movement of\n<em>either<\/em> and ellipsis, may interact with each other and create \ncomplicated empirical results. In particular, I will discuss four \nempirical generalizations about\n<em>either<\/em> that the current proposal account for successfully while alternative proposals fall short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I speculate, based on similarities between this analysis of\n<em>either<\/em> and previous analyses of focus-sensitive operators (e.g. \nCable (2007) and Hirsch (2017)), that all focus-sensitive operators have\n what I call\n<em>bipartite syntax<\/em>: there are two instances of the operator in a \nsentence, one structurally higher than the other. The lower copy is \nsemantically inert, and must c-command the focus from a local position. \nThe higher copy agrees with a probe and\/or marks\n semantic scope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Danfeng Wu (MIT)Title: Syntax of either in either\u0085or\u0085 sentences Date and time:\u00a0Thursday, 2\/14, 12:30-1:50pmLocation:\u00a032-D461 Either in either\u0085or\u0085 sentences can appear as the sister of a disjunction phrase (1), higher than the sister of a disjunction phrase (2)-(4), or lower (5)-(6), assuming the disjunction phrase is rice or beans in all these examples (based on [&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-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811","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=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11834,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}