{"id":13084,"date":"2019-12-09T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13084"},"modified":"2019-12-08T20:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T01:34:40","slug":"lf-reading-group-12-11-frank-staniszewski-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/12\/09\/lf-reading-group-12-11-frank-staniszewski-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 12\/11 - Frank Staniszewski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Frank Staniszewski<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>A variable force analysis of positive polarity neg-raising modals?<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, December 11th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I argue that data like (1) show that the modals should and supposed to can give rise to weak existential-like readings, which are not predicted under current approaches.<\/p>\n<p>          (1)       Context: Walking through tunnels to a talk on campus, we find ourselves in a basement area among                                     potentially dangerous supplies (obviously not the best place to be).<\/p>\n<p>                      a.  Should we be down here? \/ Are we supposed to be down here?<br clear='none'\/>\n                      b. I \u0092m not sure that we should\/are supposed to be down here.<br clear='none'\/>\n                      c. I don\u0092t know if we should\/are supposed to be down here.?<\/p>\n<p> Intuitively, the speaker is not asking if this is the optimal place to be. Instead the modal statement can be paraphrased with \u0091is it okay to be down here?\u0092.<br clear='none'\/>\n            In work in progress, I sketch an analysis that builds on earlier proposals in which modals interact with the polarity system (Iatridou & Zeijlstra 2013, Homer 2015). Motivated by the new data, I suggest a revised approach, adopting insights from work on variable force modals (Deal 2011), as well as free-choice (Fox 2007, Bassi & Bar-Lev 2016, a.o.) that assumes an underlying weak meaning that undergoes strengthening in upward-entailing environments, but stays weak in downward-entailing environments. I also show how this revised approach can explain interactions of these modals with negation that motivated the previous polarity-sensitive analyses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Frank StaniszewskiTitle: A variable force analysis of positive polarity neg-raising modals?Time: Wednesday, December 11th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: I argue that data like (1) show that the modals should and supposed to can give rise to weak existential-like readings, which are not predicted under current approaches. (1) Context: Walking through tunnels to a talk [&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-13084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084","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=13084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13115,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13084\/revisions\/13115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}