{"id":12578,"date":"2019-09-16T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2019-09-19T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T02:17:08","slug":"experimentalist-meeting-9-20-martin-hackl-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/09\/16\/experimentalist-meeting-9-20-martin-hackl-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimentalist meeting - 9\/20 Martin Hackl (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Martin Hackl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>A Null-Theory of Haddock\u0092s Puzzle and its Implications for the Role of Presupposition in Reference Resolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 2:00-3:00pm<br><br><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle<\/em> presents a well-known challenge to the canonical treatment of definite descriptions according to which their use requires contextual uniqueness of the NP-restrictor of\u00a0<em>the<\/em>. More specifically, as pointed out in Haddock 1987, in a situation with two hats and two rabbits, one rabbit in one of the hats while the other rabbit is not inside a hat, the definite description in (1), in which a definite DP\u00a0<em>the hat\u00a0<\/em>is nested inside a larger definite description is felicitous (Haddock 1987). Importantly, the utterance in (2) used as a description of the very same scene is not.<br><br>(1) The rabbit in the hat is excited.\u00a0<br>(2) #The excited rabbit is in the hat.<br><br>In this talk, I present a &#8220;null-theory&#8221; of Haddock&#8217;s puzzle according to which Haddock-definites are situational uniqueness definites (Schwarz 2009) in order to shed light on the role of presupposition in reference resolution. The central claim motivated by this null-theory is the constraint in (3).<br><br>(3) <strong>Constraint on Reference Resolution<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br>Presupposed content of an utterance can be used for identifying the extension of referring\u00a0expressions in the utterance, at-issue content cannot.<br><br>To assess and evaluate different ways of explicating (3) we are working on experimental paradigms that hopefully allow us to track often rather subtle distinctions in a systematic way. I will discuss where we are with that part of the project and look forward to comments on suggestions on how to improve our approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Martin Hackl Title: A Null-Theory of Haddock\u0092s Puzzle and its Implications for the Role of Presupposition in Reference Resolution Time: 2:00-3:00pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:&nbsp; Haddock&#8217;s Puzzle presents a well-known challenge to the canonical treatment of definite descriptions according to which their use requires contextual uniqueness of the NP-restrictor of\u00a0the. More specifically, as pointed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12581,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/12581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}