{"id":13021,"date":"2019-11-18T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2019-11-17T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T21:41:31","slug":"colloquium-11-22-ezra-keshet-university-of-michigan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/11\/18\/colloquium-11-22-ezra-keshet-university-of-michigan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 11\/22 - Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Pronouns in 3-D<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, November 22nd, 3:30pm - 5pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-155<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This talk aims to demystify dynamic logic by tracing the development of a new plural logic step-by-step through 3 dimensions of meaning:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Storing and retrieving single discourse referents (akin to names), each suitable for later reference via pronouns:<br clear='none'\/>\n<em>Arthur saw Beth. She waved to him.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Repeating this process along multiple parallel paths to explain pronoun reference to an antecedent indefinite (cf. Groenendijk &amp; Stokhof 1991):<br clear='none'\/>\n<em>A man saw a woman.<\/em> (= <em>Arthur saw Beth<\/em> or <em>Arthur saw Dara<\/em> or <em>Charlie saw Beth<\/em> or <em>Charlie saw Dara<\/em> &#8230;)<br clear='none'\/>\n<em>She waved to him.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Accessing values along multiple paths at once to derive plural pronoun values and other more exotic effects (cf. van den Berg 1996):<br clear='none'\/>\n<em>Every student donated a book.<\/em> (= <em>Arthur donated W&amp;P<\/em> and <em>Beth donated C&amp;P<\/em> and <em>Charlie donated P&amp;P<\/em> &#8230;)<br clear='none'\/>\n<em>They are on that shelf.<\/em> [<em>they<\/em> = W&amp;P, C&amp;P, P&amp;P, &#8230;]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I will argue, perhaps unsurprisingly, that my new logic is simpler than existing analyses, while handling the same data plus new empirical cases. For instance, the logic can handle a class of sentences where a plural pronoun in the nuclear scope of a quantifier seems to refer to the very value being constructed by that nuclear scope, as in (4). I will propose that such cases relate to a straightforward account of reflexives such as <em>each other<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(4) <em>Almost every North Atlantic country agreed in a treaty that an attack on one of <strong>them<\/strong> constitutes an attack on all of <strong>them<\/strong>.<\/em> [<em>them<\/em> = only the treaty signatories]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Ezra Keshet (University of Michigan) Title: Pronouns in 3-D Time: Friday, November 22nd, 3:30pm - 5pm Location: 32-155 Abstract: This talk aims to demystify dynamic logic by tracing the development of a new plural logic step-by-step through 3 dimensions of meaning: Storing and retrieving single discourse referents (akin to names), each suitable for later [&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-13021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021","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=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13023,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions\/13023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}