{"id":14580,"date":"2022-03-07T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14580"},"modified":"2022-03-07T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T10:58:00","slug":"colloquium-3-11-maria-aloni-university-of-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/03\/07\/colloquium-3-11-maria-aloni-university-of-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 3\/11 - Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Neglect-zero effects at the semantics-pragmatics interface<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, March 11th, 2:30pm - 4pm<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In Free Choice (FC) inferences, conjunctive meanings are derived from dis-<br clear='none'\/>\njunctive modal sentences contrary to the prescriptions of classical logic [Kam73,<br clear='none'\/>\nZim00, Fox07, Alo07]:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Positive FC<\/p>\n<p>a. You may go to the beach or to the cinema. &#8212;> You may go to the<br clear='none'\/>\nbeach and you may go to the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>b. ?(a ? b) &#8212;> ?a ? ?b<\/p>\n<p>[Alo21] presented a formal account of FC inferences in a Bilateral State-<br clear='none'\/>\nbased Modal Logic (BSML). The novel hypothesis at the core of this proposal is<br clear='none'\/>\nthat FC and related inferences are a straightforward consequence of a tendency<br clear='none'\/>\nin human cognition to neglect models that verify sentences by virtue of some<br clear='none'\/>\nempty configurations (neglect-zero) [BSK19]. There are two different ways to<br clear='none'\/>\nimplement neglect-zero in BSML: (i) syntactically, using the [ ]+-enrichment<br clear='none'\/>\nfunction from [Alo21]; and (ii) model-theoretically, ruling out the empty set from<br clear='none'\/>\nthe set of possible states (BSML?). These two implementations both derive FC<br clear='none'\/>\ninferences and their cancellation under negation, but differ for example in their<br clear='none'\/>\npredictions with respect to the debated case of Negative FC (only derivable in<br clear='none'\/>\nBSML?):<\/p>\n<p>(2) FC cancellation under negation [AO06]<\/p>\n<p>a. You are not allowed to eat the cake or the ice cream. &#8212;> You are<br clear='none'\/>\nnot allowed to eat either one.<\/p>\n<p>b. \u00ac?(a ? b) &#8212;> \u00ac?a ? \u00ac?b<\/p>\n<p>(3) Negative FC [MRSB21]<\/p>\n<p>a. It is not required that Mia buys both apples and bananas. &#8212;> It is<br clear='none'\/>\nnot required that Mia buys apples and that Mia buys bananas.<\/p>\n<p>b. \u00ac&#x25fb;(a ? b) &#8212;> \u00ac&#x25fb;a ? \u00ac&#x25fb;b<\/p>\n<p>In the talk I will compare the predictions of these implementations with<br clear='none'\/>\nthose of recent alternative accounts [Gol19, BLF20] and then argue in favor of<br clear='none'\/>\na hybrid approach where neglect-zero can cause two kinds of effects:<\/p>\n<p>(i) cancellable global effects (modelled by BSML?);<\/p>\n<p>(ii) more robust effects triggered by the conventional meaning of certain ex-<br clear='none'\/>\npressions (modelled by obligatory local applications of [ ]+-enrichments)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)Title: Neglect-zero effects at the semantics-pragmatics interfaceTime: Friday, March 11th, 2:30pm - 4pmAbstract: In Free Choice (FC) inferences, conjunctive meanings are derived from dis- junctive modal sentences contrary to the prescriptions of classical logic [Kam73, Zim00, Fox07, Alo07]: (1) Positive FC a. You may go to the beach or to [&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-14580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580","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=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}