{"id":12128,"date":"2019-04-29T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12128"},"modified":"2019-04-29T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:19:07","slug":"lf-reading-group-5-1-shumian-ye-mit-peking-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/04\/29\/lf-reading-group-5-1-shumian-ye-mit-peking-university\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 5\/1 - Shumian Ye (MIT\/Peking University)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Shumian Ye (MIT\/Peking University)<br><strong>Title:<\/strong> Negated disjunctions in Mandarin revisited<br><strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, May 1st, 1-2PM<br><strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In this talk, I will argue that OR in Mandarin is neither an NPI nor a PPI, contra Crain (2012). First, when embedded by negations, certain disjunctions obligatorily take the narrow scope, while Hurford disjunctions obligatorily take the wide scope. Compare (1) with (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1)   ta    mei    quguo         Beijing  huo   qita    chengshi.<br>\n       she  NEG  have.been   Beijing  OR    other  cities<br>\n       Unique reading: She hasn\u0092t been to Beijing or any other cities. (\u00ac &gt; ?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2)   zhe  ping   jiu       de    jiage    bu      chaoguo    shi kuai       huo    ershi kuai.<br>\n       this  CL      wine   DE   price   NEG   exceed      ten dollars   OR     twenty dollars<br>\n       Unique reading: The price of this wine doesn\u0092t exceed $10, or doesn\u0092t exceed $20. (? &gt; \u00ac) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, most negated disjunctions are ambiguous in Mandarin. Which reading is salient seems to depend on the higher modals and the contexts. Compare (3) with (4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(3)   ta     kending      mei     quguo          Beijing   huo    Shanghai.<br>\nshe   definitely    NEG   have.been    Beijing   OR     Shanghai<br>\nSalient reading: She definitely hasn\u0092t been to Beijing, nor to Shanghai. (\u00ac &gt; ?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(4)  ta       keneng      mei      quguo          Beijing   huo   Shanghai.<br>\nshe    maybe       NEG    have.been    Beijing   OR    Shanghai<br>\nSalient reading: She maybe hasn\u0092t been to Beijing, or hasn\u0092t been to Shanghai. (? &gt; \u00ac)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More crucially, the disjunctions can still take wide scope when the negated disjunctions are in the scope of a downward entailing operator, that is, OR in Mandarin cannot be rescued as a PPI (Szabolcsi 2004). After going through these arguments, I will take other modals into consideration and give a preliminary explanation for the contrast between (3) and (4), which mainly relies on two factors: 1) Interaction between different modals and ignorance\/uncertainty inferences, 2) Competition between OR and AND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shumian Ye (MIT\/Peking University)Title: Negated disjunctions in Mandarin revisitedTime: Wednesday, May 1st, 1-2PMLocation: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I will argue that OR in Mandarin is neither an NPI nor a PPI, contra Crain (2012). First, when embedded by negations, certain disjunctions obligatorily take the narrow scope, while Hurford disjunctions obligatorily take the wide [&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-12128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128","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=12128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12128\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}