{"id":15918,"date":"2023-10-30T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2023-10-30T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:02:00","slug":"linglunch-11-2-anastasia-tsilia-mit-zhuoye-zhao-nyu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/10\/30\/linglunch-11-2-anastasia-tsilia-mit-zhuoye-zhao-nyu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 11\/2 - Anastasia Tsilia (MIT) &#038; Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Anastasia Tsilia (MIT) & Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>What the incompatibility of \u0091then\u0092 with the present teaches us about perspectives in tense<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, November 2nd, 12:30pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This talk focuses on the then-present puzzle, namely the observation that the present tense is incompatible with the temporal adverbial \u0091then\u0092 (Ogihara & Sharvit 2012; Vostrikova 2018; Tsilia 2021). This is attested not only in root clauses (e.g. *John is then not feeling well), but also in embedded clauses (e.g. *John thought that Mary is pregnant then) across languages such as Russian, Modern Hebrew, Modern Greek and Japanese where the embedded present can &#8216;shift\u0092 to overlap not with the time of utterance, but with the time of the embedding attitude\/speech. We propose to account for this generalisation by assuming i) that the present tense and \u0091then\u0092 are both sensitive to a temporal perspective shared by all expressions within a minimal clausal domain, and ii) the present and &#8216;then&#8217; carry contradicting perspectival presuppositions. The perspective is modelled closely after the context as an interpretation parameter; we will briefly discuss their connections and differences. <\/p>\n<p>On this basis, we further investigate the cross-linguistic behaviour of (embedded) clauses where \u0091then\u0092 co-occurs with past tenses. A particularly interesting case concerns the so-called deleted past tense, observed in languages such as English and Modern Greek, whose past tense feature is apparently uninterpreted when embedded under a higher past tense. The deleted past tense has long been thought to be semantically indistinguishable from the shifted present tense, but only the deleted past is compatible with &#8216;then\u0092. The difference can be easily accommodated within the current analysis by assuming that unlike non-deleted tenses (including the shifted present), deleted tenses are not perspective-sensitive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Anastasia Tsilia (MIT) &#038; Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)Title: What the incompatibility of \u0091then\u0092 with the present teaches us about perspectives in tenseTime: Thursday, November 2nd, 12:30pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: This talk focuses on the then-present puzzle, namely the observation that the present tense is incompatible with the temporal adverbial \u0091then\u0092 (Ogihara &#038; Sharvit 2012; Vostrikova [&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-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918","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=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}