{"id":12916,"date":"2019-10-28T06:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2019-10-27T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T23:37:19","slug":"lf-reading-group-10-30-filipe-vincent-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/10\/28\/lf-reading-group-10-30-filipe-vincent-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/30 - Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT) &#038; Vincent Rouillard (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT) &amp; Vincent Rouillard (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Tying Free Choice in Questions to Distributivity<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, October 30th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong>Disjunctive answers to universally modalized wh-interrogatives have been noted to lead to free choice inferences.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Q: Which books are we required to read?<br clear='none'\/>\nA: The French books or the Russian books.<br clear='none'\/>\nImplies: You are allowed to read the French books and you are allowed to read the Russian books.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of such inferences has lead many to propose that wh-items can quantify over generalized quantifiers (Spector 2007,2008; a.o.). However, this move does not capture the lack of such inference when the restrictor of the wh-item is singular.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Q: Which book are we required to read?<br clear='none'\/>\nA: The French book or the Russian book.<br clear='none'\/>\nDoes not imply: You are allowed to read the French book and you are allowed to read the Russian book.<\/p>\n<p>We propose to account for this contrast by capturing the free choice inference using a covert existential distributivity operator (Bar-Lev 2017). We show that this moves derives many restrictions that the generalized quantifier theory must stipulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT) &amp; Vincent Rouillard (MIT) Title: Tying Free Choice in Questions to Distributivity Time: Wednesday, October 30th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:Disjunctive answers to universally modalized wh-interrogatives have been noted to lead to free choice inferences. (1) Q: Which books are we required to read? A: The French books or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}