{"id":16197,"date":"2024-04-01T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16197"},"modified":"2024-04-01T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:06:00","slug":"lf-reading-group-4-3-yurika-aonuki-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/04\/01\/lf-reading-group-4-3-yurika-aonuki-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 4\/3 - Yurika Aonuki (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Yurika Aonuki (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Minimum-standard predicates as resultatives and measure phrase interpretations<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, April 3rd, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>In this practice talk for WCCFL, I will propose a compositional analysis of verbal predicates in Japanese that have been treated as minimum-standard gradable adjectives (GAs) (e.g., Kubota 2011; Sawada and Grano 2011). I demonstrate that the verbs in these predicates are inchoative-state verbs (Kiyota 2008) and argue that their GA-like behaviours provide novel empirical support for a state-based analysis of GAs (Wellwood 2015).<\/p>\n<p>What have been treated as minimum-standard GAs, e.g., katamui-tei- \u0091tilted\u0092, allow absolute MPs (1). This property, in contrast with the lack of absolute MP readings with relative GAs (2), has played a major role in Japanese degree semantics.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Poster-ga 5mm katamui-tei-ru<br clear='none'\/>\n    poster-nom 5mm tilt-tei-npst<br clear='none'\/>\n    \u0091The poster is 5mm tilted.\u0092<br clear='none'\/>\n(2) Kono ki-wa 8m taka-i<br clear='none'\/>\n    this tree-top 8m tall-npst<br clear='none'\/>\n    \u0091This tree is 8m taller.\u0092 *\u0091..8m tall.\u0092<\/p>\n<p>However, these minimum GA-like predicates are morphologically Verb + aspectual marker -tei- (Oda 2008). I present the first compositional analysis of (1) in which the MP measures a result state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yurika Aonuki (MIT)Title: Minimum-standard predicates as resultatives and measure phrase interpretationsTime: Wednesday, April 3rd, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: In this practice talk for WCCFL, I will propose a compositional analysis of verbal predicates in Japanese that have been treated as minimum-standard gradable adjectives (GAs) (e.g., Kubota 2011; Sawada and Grano 2011). I demonstrate that [&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-16197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197","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=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}