{"id":15081,"date":"2022-10-17T06:01:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15081"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:22:57","slug":"lfrg-10-19-ido-benbaji-and-omri-doron-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/17\/lfrg-10-19-ido-benbaji-and-omri-doron-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/19 &#8212; Ido Benbaji and Omri Doron (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> Ido Benbaji and Omri Doron (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Adversative <em>only<\/em> is only <em>only<\/em><br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday 10\/19, 1-2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jespersen (1954) discusses uses of the word<em> only<\/em> in which it seems to behave as a sentential connective, as in (1) below. Following von Fintel &amp; Iatridou, we call this<strong> adversative <em>only<\/em>.<\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\n(1) He&#8217;s a nice man, only he talks too much.<br clear='none'\/>\nWe propose a unified analysis for regular <em>only<\/em> and adversative <em>only<\/em>, and suggest that the difference between the uses stems from scopal interaction with an operator in LF that enforces the informativity requirement on sentences. We extend our analysis to other cases of CP-taking<em> only<\/em> and <em>even<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers: Ido Benbaji and Omri Doron (MIT) Title: Adversative only is only only Time: Wednesday 10\/19, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract:\u00a0 Jespersen (1954) discusses uses of the word only in which it seems to behave as a sentential connective, as in (1) below. Following von Fintel &amp; Iatridou, we call this adversative only. (1) He&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15083,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}