{"id":13504,"date":"2020-06-22T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13504"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:04:04","slug":"summer-talk-series-6-25-yadav-gowda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/06\/22\/summer-talk-series-6-25-yadav-gowda\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Talk Series 6\/25 - Yadav Gowda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Yadav Gowda (MIT)

\nTitle: The long and short of tense in Kannada and English

\nTime: Thursday, June 25th, 12:30pm - 2pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract: <\/strong>Across languages, simple present tense forms commonly exhibit two properties, which I will call\u00a0Non-perfectivity<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Presentness<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Non-perfectivity<\/strong>:\u00a0VPs which denote events are incompatible with perfective aspect in simple present tense forms (e.g. (1)).<\/div>\n
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1.\u00a0 *I walk to the park (now).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Presentness<\/strong>:\u00a0Given a stative simple present tense sentence (e.g. (2)) uttered at time t, the state denoted by the VP holds at t. Given an imperfective eventive simple present tense sentence (e.g. (3)) uttered at time t’, the run-time of the event denoted by the VP includes t’.<\/div>\n
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2. I live in Chicago (now).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3. I am walking to the park (now).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In this talk, I will present an analysis of the Kannada present tense, which, like English, exhibits both Non-perfectivity and Presentness. I will argue, however, that Kannada\u00a0arrives at these properties by different means. Specifically, I\u00a0will argue that the properties of Kannada present tense sentences derive from\u00a0two main components:<\/div>\n
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a) The present tense\u00a0existentially quantifies over intervals ending at the Utterance Time<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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b) Perfective present tense sentences compete with perfective past tense sentences, triggering\u00a0a temporal (scalar) implicature<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0I will call the Utterance Time Alignment Implicature (UTAI), which, in general, rules them out.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In contrast, I argue\u00a0that the meaning of English present tense sentences does\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0involve existential quantification over intervals,\u00a0nor<\/strong>\u00a0competition with the past tense. Instead, I argue that the meaning of English present tense sentences involves evaluation of the predicate at the Utterance Time itself.<\/div>\n
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I will call Kannada-type languages, in which the present tense existentially quantifies over intervals ending at the Utterance Time,\u00a0long present tense<\/strong>\u00a0languages, and English-type languages, in which the present tense evaluates the predicate at the Utterance Time itself,\u00a0short present tense<\/strong>\u00a0languages.<\/div>\n
\nTime permitting, I will argue that this long vs. short present distinction predicts the distribution of two phenomena which have been long-standing puzzles in the analysis of the English present: the ability of durative adverbials to modify simple present stative\/imperfective sentences (Kannada (Long):\u00a0Yes<\/strong>;\u00a0English (Short):\u00a0No<\/strong>), and the\u00a0Present Perfect Puzzle (Kannada (Long):\u00a0No<\/strong>;\u00a0English (Short):\u00a0Yes<\/strong>).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Yadav Gowda (MIT) Title: The long and short of tense in Kannada and English Time: Thursday, June 25th, 12:30pm - 2pm Abstract: Across languages, simple present tense forms commonly exhibit two properties, which I will call\u00a0Non-perfectivity\u00a0and\u00a0Presentness: Non-perfectivity:\u00a0VPs which denote events are incompatible with perfective aspect in simple present tense forms (e.g. (1)). \u00a0 1.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13504","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=13504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13504\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}