{"id":13510,"date":"2020-07-06T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13510"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T00:46:36","slug":"summer-talk-series-7-09-verena-hehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/07\/06\/summer-talk-series-7-09-verena-hehl\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Talk Series 7\/09 - Verena Hehl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: Verena Hehl (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Who would claim that multiple rhetorical wh-questions are real?<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, July 9th, 12:30pm - 2pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> I will discuss several puzzling questions regarding the status of multiple wh-questions in the light of rhetoricity. I will provide a first explanation for why multiple wh-questions are, in fact cannot be, rhetorical questions cross-linguistically, building a partition model upon Han (2002) who would predict otherwise. In addition, I will provide and discuss data in which bare wh-elements in Russian function as indefinities in rhetorical questions, although their licensing is not obvious. This is work in progress and feedback from experts of all interfaces, as well as a wide array of native speaker intuitions are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Verena Hehl (MIT) Title: Who would claim that multiple rhetorical wh-questions are real? Time: Thursday, July 9th, 12:30pm - 2pm Abstract: I will discuss several puzzling questions regarding the status of multiple wh-questions in the light of rhetoricity. I will provide a first explanation for why multiple wh-questions are, in fact cannot be, rhetorical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13512,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}