{"id":13839,"date":"2020-11-02T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2020-11-01T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T21:58:41","slug":"linglunch-11-5-danny-fox-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/11\/02\/linglunch-11-5-danny-fox-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 11\/5 - Danny Fox (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Danny Fox (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Trivalent Strong Exhaustivity \u0096towards a uniform semantics for question embedding<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, November 5th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this talk I will go over well-known arguments that there are three different interpretive schemas associated with question embedding (<em>weak-exhaustivity<\/em>, <em>strong-exhaustivity<\/em> and <em>intermediate-exhaustivity<\/em>), where each embedding predicate selects for the appropriate schema. Despite these arguments I will propose a uniform semantics based on the assumption that the <em>answer<\/em> to a question is a trivalent proposition (the denotation of a cleft). The answer will be \u0093strongly exhaustive\u0094 but presuppositional, hence <em>Trivalent Strong Exhaustivity<\/em>. Different results will follow for the different embedding contexts based on independent differences in presupposition projection.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a recent paper that you can read at<br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/semanticsarchive.net\/Archive\/jc5NmIxN\/Question%20Embedding\">https:\/\/semanticsarchive.net\/Archive\/jc5NmIxN\/Question%20Embedding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Danny Fox (MIT) Title: Trivalent Strong Exhaustivity \u0096towards a uniform semantics for question embedding Time: Thursday, November 5th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Abstract: In this talk I will go over well-known arguments that there are three different interpretive schemas associated with question embedding (weak-exhaustivity, strong-exhaustivity and intermediate-exhaustivity), where each embedding predicate selects for the appropriate [&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-13839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839","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=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13843,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions\/13843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}