{"id":14068,"date":"2021-04-05T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T16:36:48","slug":"lfrg-04-07-2021-jad-wehbe-mit-an-implicature-account-of-actuality-entailments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2021\/04\/05\/lfrg-04-07-2021-jad-wehbe-mit-an-implicature-account-of-actuality-entailments\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 04\/07\/2021 &#8212; Jad Wehbe (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Jad Wehbe\u00a0(MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>An Implicature Account of Actuality Entailments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, April 7th, 1pm - 2pm<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Abstract &#8212; An Implicature Account of Actuality Entailments:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Actuality Entailments (first discussed by Bhatt, 1999; Hacquard, 2006) arise when the\u00a0prejacent is present-oriented with respect to the evaluation time of a circumstantial possibility or necessity modal (Matthewson, 2012; Kratzer, 2011). This talk will focus on a puzzle that arises\u00a0from\u00a0the interaction of\u00a0AEs\u00a0with negation. Namely, negated\u00a0actualized\u00a0modals give rise to\u00a0what Hacquard (2009)\u00a0calls a\u00a0non-actuality entailment, an entailment that the event did not\u00a0occur in the actual world. Taken together, the\u00a0facts about actualized modals in positive and negative environments\u00a0require\u00a0an account of AEs that includes an implicature or presuppositional component. This talk will explore an\u00a0implicature\u00a0account of AEs (see\u00a0Homer, 2019; Alxatib, 2020 for a\u00a0presuppositional account),\u00a0proposing\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0basic uniform\u00a0meaning of modal auxiliaries involves existential quantification over a time interval. When the prejacent is present-oriented with respect to the modal\u00a0perspective, this basic meaning straightforwardly derives non-actuality entailments under negation.\u00a0In\u00a0positive\u00a0sentences,\u00a0a\u00a0strengthened meaning is derived by the calculation of an\u00a0implicature that is modeled after\u00a0Bar-Lev&#8217;s (2020)\u00a0account of homogeneity with definite plurals. I will show that the proposed\u00a0implicature\u00a0account\u00a0can predict\u00a0the differences\u00a0in meaning\u00a0between actualized possibility modals, actualized necessity modals and their non-modal counterparts, while deriving actuality entailments and non-actuality entailments.?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jad Wehbe\u00a0(MIT) Title: An Implicature Account of Actuality Entailments Time:\u00a0Wednesday, April 7th, 1pm - 2pm Abstract &#8212; An Implicature Account of Actuality Entailments:\u00a0 \u00a0Actuality Entailments (first discussed by Bhatt, 1999; Hacquard, 2006) arise when the\u00a0prejacent is present-oriented with respect to the evaluation time of a circumstantial possibility or necessity modal (Matthewson, 2012; Kratzer, 2011). [&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-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","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=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14076,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}