{"id":16001,"date":"2023-11-27T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16001"},"modified":"2023-11-27T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:29:40","slug":"colloquium-12-01-sigrid-beck-university-of-tubingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2023\/11\/27\/colloquium-12-01-sigrid-beck-university-of-tubingen\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 12\/01 - Sigrid Beck (University of T\u00fcbingen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Sigrid Beck (University of T\u00fcbingen)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>The emergence of a Generalized Quantifier: English &#8216;every&#8217;<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, Dec 1, 3:30pm \u0096 5pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>32-141<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>The talk investigates the diachronic development of universal quantifiers in English. The etymological source of Present Day English &#8216;every&#8217;, Old English &#8216;aelc&#8217; is analysed as an indeterminate pronoun. It participates in an alternative semantic system of quantification. I show how during Middle English, this system was reduced and finally lost. A reanalysis as a Generalized Quantifier becomes possible towards the end of the Middle English period. The compositional semantic change is analysed. I argue that interpretive stability at a propositional level is a crucial condition on such semantic change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Sigrid Beck (University of T\u00fcbingen) Title: The emergence of a Generalized Quantifier: English &#8216;every&#8217; Time:\u00a0Friday, Dec 1, 3:30pm \u0096 5pm Location:\u00a032-141 Abstract:\u00a0The talk investigates the diachronic development of universal quantifiers in English. The etymological source of Present Day English &#8216;every&#8217;, Old English &#8216;aelc&#8217; is analysed as an indeterminate pronoun. It participates in an alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}