{"id":12448,"date":"2019-09-03T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:28:26","slug":"linglunch-9-5-shigeru-miyagawa-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/03\/linglunch-9-5-shigeru-miyagawa-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 9\/5 - Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)<br clear='none'\/><strong>Title: <\/strong>The Question Particle in Japanese and the Nature of Exhaustivity in Wh-questions<br clear='none'\/><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 5th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br clear='none'\/><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Wh-questions typically require an answer that gives the maximal information possible. I argue that this notion of exhaustivity is overtly marked by the Question particle in the root clauses in Japanese. We can detect the exhaustivity associated with the Q-particle by optionally omitting it; in the absence of the Q-particle, the question loses the exhaustive meaning, which signals that a partial answer is sufficient. We will see that the Q-particle provides a test for a number of issues in the meaning of questions that heretofore were not easily testable. We will see that a question that has for example, which asks for a partial answer, nevertheless may have the Q-particle because the question can contain the meaning of exhaustivity in its underlying meaning. Why questions require the Q-particle because why cannot lead to a partial answer. There is one situation where the Q-particle is prohibited; I argue that it is a pure form of Question Under Discussion, made possible by a question lacking the meaning of exhaustivity. For the mention-all versus mention-one question-answers, we will see that both contain exhaustivity. I will propose that the exhaustivity associated with mention-one questions is directly related to Schwarzschild\u0092s (2002) idea of singleton indefinites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)Title: The Question Particle in Japanese and the Nature of Exhaustivity in Wh-questionsTime: Thursday, September 5th, 12:30pm - 1:50pmLocation: 32-D461 Abstract: Wh-questions typically require an answer that gives the maximal information possible. I argue that this notion of exhaustivity is overtly marked by the Question particle in the root clauses in Japanese. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12468,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions\/12468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}