{"id":13812,"date":"2020-10-26T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:08:06","slug":"lfrg-10-28-yadav-gowda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/10\/26\/lfrg-10-28-yadav-gowda\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 10\/28 - Yadav Gowda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the Existential Perfect reading of statives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>English perfect constructions involving stative predicates such as <em>be in the attic<\/em>\u00a0are ambiguous between an (E)xistential-perfect and (U)niversal-perfect reading. The U-perfect reading is the most readily available reading, but the E-perfect reading can be forced with certain modifiers, such as <em>three times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(1)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I have been in the attic since I moved in. (U-perfect, E-perfect)<\/li>\n<li>I have (only) been in the attic three times since\u00a0I moved in. (E-perfect)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previous accounts of such sentences (e.g. Mittwoch 1988, Giannakidou 2003) have suggested that E-perfect readings involve coercion of the stative predicate into an eventive predicate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will argue that these sentences do <em>not<\/em>\u00a0involve any eventive structure, and that such readings can straightforwardly be derived using the operation of <em>topological closure<\/em>, which Giorgi and Pianesi (1997, 2000) argue is integral to deriving the meaning of perfective verb forms.<\/p>\n<p>As additional support for this account, I will provide a compositional semantics of Kannada sentences like (2), which exhibit a peculiar (and as far as I know, unattested) reading which is a combination of the E-perfect and U-perfect readings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(2) 2001-rinda\u00a0 \u00a0?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 k??e-yalli\u00a0 \u00a0m?ru\u00a0 bari\u00a0 \u00a0idd?ne.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 2001-ABL\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0this\u00a0 \u00a0room-LOC\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0three times\u00a0 be.PRES.1SG<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Lit: &#8220;I am in this room three times from 2001.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0? &#8220;This is the third time I have been in this room since 2001.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will argue that such a reading can be derived through topological closure, but cannot be derived through eventive coercion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Existential Perfect reading of statives &nbsp; English perfect constructions involving stative predicates such as be in the attic\u00a0are ambiguous between an (E)xistential-perfect and (U)niversal-perfect reading. The U-perfect reading is the most readily available reading, but the E-perfect reading can be forced with certain modifiers, such as three times. &nbsp; (1) I have been [&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-13812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812","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=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13813,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions\/13813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}