{"id":13058,"date":"2019-11-25T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2019-11-25T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:06:00","slug":"lf-reading-group-11-27-christopher-baron-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/11\/25\/lf-reading-group-11-27-christopher-baron-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 11\/27 - Christopher Baron (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Christopher Baron (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>States in the semantics of degree achievements<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, November 27th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Adjectives are typically analyzed as measure functions (<e,d> functions) or degree-individual relations (<d,et> functions); alternative analyses posit they are (neo)davidsonian state predicates (<v,t> functions). I argue that the interaction between degree achievement verbs and source\/goal PPs, as in (1), supports the state predicate view.<\/p>\n<p>(1) The gap widened from 3 inches to 9 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Christopher Baron (MIT)Title: States in the semantics of degree achievementsTime: Wednesday, November 27th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: Adjectives are typically analyzed as measure functions ( functions) or degree-individual relations ( functions); alternative analyses posit they are (neo)davidsonian state predicates ( functions). I argue that the interaction between degree achievement verbs and source\/goal PPs, as [&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-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","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=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}