{"id":12095,"date":"2019-04-22T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T10:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T20:40:58","slug":"lf-reading-group-4-24-keny-chatain-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/04\/22\/lf-reading-group-4-24-keny-chatain-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 4\/24 - Keny Chatain (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Keny Chatain (MIT)<br><strong>Title<\/strong>:\u00a0What is wrong with doubles?<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: Wednesday, April 24th, 1-2PM<br><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong>&nbsp;In this talk, I show that for a sizeable class of adjectival operators (including comparatives, superlatives, excessives,&nbsp;<em>same<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>different<\/em>),\n standard and otherwise perfectly adequate denotations and LFs deliver \nproblematic truth-conditions in sentences where two such operators \noccur, e.g. (1-2). This happens even though speakers recognize such \nsentences as well-formed and have consistent intuitions about their \ntruth-conditions. These problems have been partially tackled in the \nliterature (von Stechow (1984) under the label&nbsp;<em>multihead comparatives,&nbsp;<\/em>Meier (2000) for degree result clauses, and refs therein), but a one-size-fits-all solution, if it exists, remains to be found.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) Amelia carried the biggest elephant over the longest distance (relative reading)<br>(2) Every suspect read the same book at the same time.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After\n presenting the problem, I will explore three solutions: 1) an extension\n of von Stechow (1984), 2) a solution exploiting polyadic quantification\n inspired in spirit by Fox &amp; Johnson (2016), 3) a postsuppositional \naccount following Brasoveanu (2012). I will show that the challenges \nfaced by all three solutions are daunting, if not insurmountable. I will\n suggest a revision of 1) but will mainly leave the puzzle open for the \naudience&#8217;s insights to express themselves freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Keny Chatain (MIT)Title:\u00a0What is wrong with doubles?Time: Wednesday, April 24th, 1-2PMLocation:\u00a032-D461 Abstract:&nbsp;In this talk, I show that for a sizeable class of adjectival operators (including comparatives, superlatives, excessives,&nbsp;same,&nbsp;different), standard and otherwise perfectly adequate denotations and LFs deliver problematic truth-conditions in sentences where two such operators occur, e.g. (1-2). This happens even though speakers recognize [&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-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","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=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12096,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}