{"id":13761,"date":"2020-10-12T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13761"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T21:00:42","slug":"lfrg-10-14-dori-kata-takacs-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/10\/12\/lfrg-10-14-dori-kata-takacs-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/14 - D\u00f3ra Kata Tak\u00e1cs  (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this talk I&#8217;ll take a closer look at the particle combination\u00a0<i>ak\u00e1r&#8230; is\u00a0<\/i>in Hungarian. I argue that it has two possible interpretations, one similar to English\u00a0<i>even<\/i>, and another one similar to\u00a0<i>at least<\/i>. I provide a semantics for the two readings and address the connection between them. I claim that the difference between these two readings is due to the presence of a covert csak (only\/just), which together with<i>\u00a0ak\u00e1r &#8230;\u00a0<\/i><i>is<\/i>\u00a0gives rise to a minimal sufficiency reading. This is the flip side of Panizza &amp; Sudo&#8217;s (2020) proposal which argues for the presence of a covert\u00a0<i>even<\/i>\u00a0for minimal sufficiency readings with exclusives like<i>\u00a0just<\/i>. This raises some open questions concerning the role scalarity and exclusivity play in establishing minimal sufficiency readings in general, which will hopefully provide a good base for a fruitful discussion at the end of the talk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adL\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this talk I&#8217;ll take a closer look at the particle combination\u00a0ak\u00e1r&#8230; is\u00a0in Hungarian. I argue that it has two possible interpretations, one similar to English\u00a0even, and another one similar to\u00a0at least. I provide a semantics for the two readings and address the connection between them. I claim that the difference between these two readings [&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-13761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761","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=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}