{"id":13860,"date":"2020-11-09T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2020-11-08T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T04:35:31","slug":"syntax-square-11-10-tanya-bondarenko-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/11\/09\/syntax-square-11-10-tanya-bondarenko-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax Square 11\/10 - Tanya Bondarenko (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Tanya Bondarenko (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Two paths to explain<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Tuesday, November 10th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this talk, I show that Russian CPs that combine with the verb objasnit\u0092 \u0091explain\u0092 have two interpretations: they can denote what was said as an explanation (explanans) or what has been explained (explanandum):<\/p>\n<p>(1) Lena objasnila [CP ?to xleba net.]<br clear='none'\/>\nLena explained COMP bread no<br clear='none'\/>\nLena explained that there is no bread.\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\na. Explanans: Lena said \u0093there is no bread\u0094 as an explanation of some other fact (e.g., of the fact that she sent Petya to the grocery store).<br clear='none'\/>\nb. Explanandum: Lena explained the fact that there\u0092s no bread (e.g., by saying \u0093Katya made sandwiches last night\u0094).<\/p>\n<p>I show that the two readings go hand in hand with a number of differences in argument structure, event structure and extraction, and argue that objasnit\u0092 can either denote a state of something being explained or a process of explaining, and the two denotations correspond to two different mappings to syntax. Explanandum CPs combine as modifiers of internal arguments (Kratzer 2006, Moulton 2015), while explanans CPs combine as event modifiers which specify the Content of the explaining process (Bogal-Allbritten 2016, Elliott 2017). Finally, I show that \u0091explain\u0092 is not unique in exhibiting this ambiguity, and verbs like argumentirovat\u0092 \u0091argue\u0092, obosnovat\u0092 \u0091justify\u0092, predskazat\u0092 \u0091predict\u0092, utochnit\u0092 \u0091clarify, make specific\u0092 have the same two readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Tanya Bondarenko (MIT) Title: Two paths to explain Time: Tuesday, November 10th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract: In this talk, I show that Russian CPs that combine with the verb objasnit\u0092 \u0091explain\u0092 have two interpretations: they can denote what was said as an explanation (explanans) or what has been explained (explanandum): (1) Lena objasnila [CP [&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-13860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","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=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13869,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions\/13869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}