{"id":14937,"date":"2022-09-26T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:02:00","slug":"linglunch-9-29-janek-guerrini-institut-jean-nicod-ens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/09\/26\/linglunch-9-29-janek-guerrini-institut-jean-nicod-ens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 9\/29 - Janek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Janek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Genericity in similarity<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 29th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this talk, I offer an account of similarity constructions involving &#8216;like&#8217;, such as &#8216;be like&#8217; and &#8216;look like&#8217;. I argue that these constructions have two key properties. (1) The first is that similarity predication amounts to predication of overlap of salient properties: I analyse &#8216;John is like Mary&#8217; as &#8216;John shares relevant properties with Mary&#8217;. This is motivated by the fact that there seem to be grammatical devices that single out precisely what properties are relevant, e.g. &#8216;With respect to personality, she\u0092s just like her father&#8217;. (2) The second key feature of similarity talk is, I argue, that it involves inherent generic quantification. This explains a<br clear='none'\/>\nrange of data: first, it accounts for the reading of indefinites embedded in \u0091like&#8217; Prepositional Phrases: &#8216;John looks like a lawyer&#8217; is almost equivalent to &#8216;John looks like a typical lawyer\u0092. Second, it accounts for narrow-scope and almost conjunctive readings of disjunction in the scope of &#8216;like&#8217;: &#8216;Mary looks like a lawyer or a judge&#8217; is almost equivalent (on its most accessible reading) to &#8216;Mary looks like a lawyer and Mary looks like a judge\u0092.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Janek Guerrini (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS)Title: Genericity in similarityTime: Thursday, September 29th, 12:30pm - 1:50pmAbstract: In this talk, I offer an account of similarity constructions involving &#8216;like&#8217;, such as &#8216;be like&#8217; and &#8216;look like&#8217;. I argue that these constructions have two key properties. (1) The first is that similarity predication amounts to predication of [&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-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","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=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}