{"id":13834,"date":"2020-11-02T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2020-11-01T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:25:37","slug":"lf-reading-group-11-4-agnes-bi-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/11\/02\/lf-reading-group-11-4-agnes-bi-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 11\/4 - Agnes Bi (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Agnes Bi (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Scalar particles in comparatives (an informal discussion)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, November 4th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Scalar particles in comparatives give rise to unexpected evaluative inferences, which vary depending on focus-placement:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman;\">\n<li>Alex is even taller than [Blake]<sub>F<\/sub>. \u00a0 \u00a0(? Both Alex and Blake are tall)<\/li>\n<li>[Alex]<sub>F<\/sub> is even taller than Blake. \u00a0 \u00a0(? Both Alex and Blake are short)<\/li>\n<li>Alex is even [taller]<sub>F<\/sub> than Blake. \u00a0 \u00a0(? Alex exceeds Blake on some other scale as well)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I will argue in favor of hardwiring a positive condition in the semantics of <em>even<\/em> along the lines of Daniels &amp; Greenberg 2020 and, generally, of Greenberg 2015, 2018. Moreover, I would like to explore similar patterns in Mandarin with the scalar particle <em>hai<\/em>, which seems to be largely underspecified and to be at play in the full set of readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Agnes Bi (MIT) Title: Scalar particles in comparatives (an informal discussion) Time: Wednesday, November 4th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: Scalar particles in comparatives give rise to unexpected evaluative inferences, which vary depending on focus-placement: Alex is even taller than [Blake]F. \u00a0 \u00a0(? Both Alex and Blake are tall) [Alex]F is even taller than Blake. [&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-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","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=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13836,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}