{"id":1591,"date":"2010-05-10T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2010-05-08T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T18:38:11","slug":"special-lfrg-514-klaus-von-heusinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/05\/10\/special-lfrg-514-klaus-von-heusinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Special LFRG 5\/14: Klaus von Heusinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>WHO: Klaus von Heusinger (U. Stuttgart)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTITLE: Specifictiy, Referentiality and Discourse Prominence<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHEN: May 14, Friday, 3PM-4:30PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHERE: TBA, probably 32-D461<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P><br clear='none'\/>\nThere are various notions of specificity, ranging from Fodor & Sag\u0092s (1982) referentiality view to Givon\u0092s discourse prominence view. Ionin (2006) discusses<br clear='none'\/>\nthe relation between these two perspectives by analyzing the English indefinite this. She represents indefinite this as a referential operator in the sense of<br clear='none'\/>\nFodor & Sag (1982), but also adds the felicitous condition of \u0093noteworthiness\u0094. She notes that there is an open question how these two properties of<br clear='none'\/>\nindefinite this are linked to the discourse property of signaling high prominence in a discourse.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The talk will address this open question by analyzing the two German equivalents of the English indefinite this: the indefinite demonstrative dies and the form<br clear='none'\/>\nso\u0092n, which is composed of do \u0091such\u0092 and the reduced and enclitic form \u0091n of the indefinite article ein. Both forms are primarily used in informal<br clear='none'\/>\nregisters and signal discourse prominence, i.e. that more will be said about the referent introduced by these expressions. First, I argue that these two forms<br clear='none'\/>\nare in fact two indefinite articles in German; I present some results from corpus searches that provide evidence for their discourse function, and I report on<br clear='none'\/>\na subtle difference in their referential behavior under extensional and intensional operators. I suggest some new links between the referential properties and<br clear='none'\/>\nthe discourse properties of these specific indefinite article in German and conclude with even more open questions.<\/P><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Peter traf gestern eine Frau.<\/li>\n<li>Peter traf gestern diese Frau.<\/li>\n<li>Peter traf gestern so\u0092ne Frau.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\n\tPeter met yesterday a \/ this \/ such-a woman.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nReferences<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nFodor, Janet & Sag, Ivan 1982. Referential and Quantificational Indefinites. Linguistics and Philosophy 5, 355-398.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nGivon, Talmy 1981. On the Development of the Numeral &#8216;one&#8217; as an Indefinite Marker. Folia Linguistica Historia 2, 35-53.<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nIonin, Tanja 2006. This is definitely specific: specificity and definiteness in article systems. Natural Language Semantics, 14, 175-234.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Klaus von Heusinger (U. Stuttgart) TITLE: Specifictiy, Referentiality and Discourse Prominence WHEN: May 14, Friday, 3PM-4:30PM WHERE: TBA, probably 32-D461 There are various notions of specificity, ranging from Fodor &#038; Sag\u0092s (1982) referentiality view to Givon\u0092s discourse prominence view. Ionin (2006) discusses the relation between these two perspectives by analyzing the English indefinite this. 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