{"id":12042,"date":"2019-04-08T06:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:56:09","slug":"lf-reading-group-4-10-christopher-baron-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/04\/08\/lf-reading-group-4-10-christopher-baron-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 4\/10 - Christopher Baron (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Christopher Baron (MIT)<br><strong>Title:<\/strong> Entailments, implicatures, and absolute adjectives<br><strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 10th, 1-2PM<br><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br><br><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><br>Absolute adjectives like <em>straight<\/em>\u00a0and <em>bent<\/em> give rise to interesting entailments and implicatures when they occur  in degree constructions; the [a] and [b] examples below are comparatives, and the [c] examples are degree achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>[a] Bar A is straighter than it was before.<br>[b] Bar A is straighter than Bar B is.<br>[c] Bar A straightened.<\/li><li>[a] Bar C is more bent than it was before.<br>[b] Bar C is more bent than Bar B is.<br>[c] Bar C bent<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n(1a)  and (1c) entail that Bar A wasn&#8217;t completely straight before; (1b)\n  entail that Bar B isn&#8217;t completely straight. However, (1a) and (1b) \nseem  to imply that Bar A isn&#8217;t completely straight, whereas (1c) seems \nto  imply that it <em>is<\/em> completely straight (now). The examples in\n (2)  are similar. All three entail that Bar C is bent (now). (2a) seems\n to  imply that Bar C was already bent, and (2b) seems to imply that Bar\n B is  also bent. However, (2c) seems to imply that Bar C <em>wasn&#8217;t <\/em>bent before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll argue that this implied content really is implicature, rather than   entailment or presupposition, and explore and expand on accounts of some   (but not all) of these implicatures (e.g. Kennedy 2007). Furthermore,   I&#8217;ll explore various possibilities for the apparent reversal in   implicature with degree achievements, and argue that none of the obvious   solutions are quite appealing. I leave open for now, however, a positive account of these data.\u00a0  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Christopher Baron (MIT)Title: Entailments, implicatures, and absolute adjectivesTime: Wednesday, April 10th, 1-2PMLocation: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0Absolute adjectives like straight\u00a0and bent give rise to interesting entailments and implicatures when they occur in degree constructions; the [a] and [b] examples below are comparatives, and the [c] examples are degree achievements. [a] Bar A is straighter than it was [&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-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","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=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}