{"id":11982,"date":"2019-03-18T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:55:19","slug":"lf-reading-group-3-18-itai-bassi-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/03\/18\/lf-reading-group-3-18-itai-bassi-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 3\/18 - Itai Bassi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Itai Bassi (MIT)<br><strong>Title<\/strong>: Principle C effects with plural antecedents (joint work with Paul Marty)<br><strong>Time: <\/strong> Monday, March 18th, 1-2 pm <br><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:In  the literature on Principle C, it has been claimed on the basis of  examples like (1) that an R-expression cannot overlap in reference with a  c-commanding plural antecedent (a.o., Lasnik 1989, Schlenker 2003). Yet  we add to (1) the datapoint in (2), and observe that this claim only  holds on a distributive interpretation\u00a0of the relevant antecedent: as  (2) shows, things get better on a collective interpretation (cf.  Reinhart and Reuland for a parallel observation for principle B  configurations).<br><br>(1) They think that Oscar should be the band leader\u00a0<em>(* if Oscar is part of the reference of &#8220;they&#8221;)<\/em><br>(2) They (jointly) decided that Oscar will be the band leader\u00a0<em>(ok if Oscar is part of the reference of &#8220;they&#8221;)<\/em><br><br>Our  idea to understand this contrast is this: the distributive LF, but not  the collective one, has an embedded constituent of the form &#8216;x thinks  that Oscar&#8230;&#8217;, where &#8216;x&#8217; is an atomic variable quantified over by a  distributive operator.\u00a0\u00a0When `x&#8217; takes Oscar as one of its values, a  (classical) Principle C violation obtains. We propose to derive these  &#8220;embedded principle C&#8221; effects by extending Reinhart&#8217;s competition  theory of principle C (aka &#8216;Rule I\u0092) to make it operative at embedded  levels. We then argue that on this refinement, Rule I can be eliminated  as a primitive of the grammar and be subsumed by the independently  motivated principle, Maximize Presupposition!, which has also been  argued to regulate competition between LF representations at embedded  levels (Singh, 2011). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Itai Bassi (MIT)Title: Principle C effects with plural antecedents (joint work with Paul Marty)Time: Monday, March 18th, 1-2 pm Abstract:In the literature on Principle C, it has been claimed on the basis of examples like (1) that an R-expression cannot overlap in reference with a c-commanding plural antecedent (a.o., Lasnik 1989, Schlenker 2003). Yet [&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-11982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982","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=11982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11996,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11982\/revisions\/11996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}