{"id":16464,"date":"2024-09-23T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2024-09-23T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:06:00","slug":"lf-reading-group-9-25-irene-heim-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/09\/23\/lf-reading-group-9-25-irene-heim-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 9\/25 - Irene Heim (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Irene Heim (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>A better dissertation<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, September 25th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>I will revisit the transition from the second chapter to the third chapter of my 1982 dissertation &#8220;The semantics of definite and indefinite noun phrases&#8221;.  My purpose is to isolate and throw light on some of the individual ideas in the dynamic package deal. I will not address (let alone remedy) any empirical problems (such as bathroom sentence, weak readings, proportion problem).<\/p>\n<p>Prerequisites: Familiarity with the technical core and conclusion of chapter II of Heim 1982 (i.e., sections II.2, II.3, and II.8). Familiarity with how trivalent truth functions account for presupposition projection. The handout will be technically self-contained but not an introduction to this background material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Irene Heim (MIT)Title: A better dissertationTime: Wednesday, September 25th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: I will revisit the transition from the second chapter to the third chapter of my 1982 dissertation &#8220;The semantics of definite and indefinite noun phrases&#8221;. My purpose is to isolate and throw light on some of the individual ideas in the [&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-16464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464","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=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}