{"id":12880,"date":"2019-10-21T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T19:01:14","slug":"lf-reading-group-10-23-vincent-rouillard-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/10\/21\/lf-reading-group-10-23-vincent-rouillard-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/23 - Vincent Rouillard (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Vincent Rouillard (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>An Alternative Based Analysis of Temporal in-Adverbials<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, October 23rd, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Following the idea that polarity sensitivity in language results from the logical relation between alternatives, I analyze the changing polarity sensitivity of temporal in-adverbials as the result of a change in the logical structure of alternatives. More precisely, I compare the lack of polarity sensitivity of such modifiers in (1), where they specify the length of an event, with their status as NPIs in (2), where they assign a left-boundary to the Perfect Time Span.<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. Mary wrote the paper in minutes.<br clear='none'\/>\n    b. Mary didn&#8217;t write the paper in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>(2) a. *Mary has had a seizure in years.<br clear='none'\/>\n    b. Mary hasn&#8217;t had a seizure in years.<\/p>\n<p>I propose to understand the emergence of polarity sensitivity in (2) as resulting from an interaction between aspect and alternatives. Aspect creates a logical relationship between the alternatives of the sentences in (2), a relationship absent from the alternatives to the sentences in (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Vincent Rouillard (MIT)Title: An Alternative Based Analysis of Temporal in-AdverbialsTime: Wednesday, October 23rd, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: Following the idea that polarity sensitivity in language results from the logical relation between alternatives, I analyze the changing polarity sensitivity of temporal in-adverbials as the result of a change in the logical structure of alternatives. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880","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=12880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}