{"id":16550,"date":"2024-10-21T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16550"},"modified":"2024-12-28T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:36:07","slug":"lf-reading-group-10-23-shrayana-haldar-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/10\/21\/lf-reading-group-10-23-shrayana-haldar-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/23 - Shrayana Haldar (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shrayanahaldar.weebly.com\"> Shrayana Haldar<\/a> (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Deriving Uniqueness of Definites from Contradiction <br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong> Wednesday, October 23, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This is Part I of a two-part talk. In this Part I, I explore a hypothetical: what if definites are not that different from indefinites syntactically? More specifically, extending an idea of Omri Doron&#8217;s, I will propose that we give definites and indefinites exactly identical make-up &#8212; with an existential quantifier taking a restrictor and a nuclear scope &#8212; except that definites be given an extra PEX operator embedded in the restrictor argument of the existential quantifier that indefinites lack. The trivalence resulting from this PEX operator projects from out of the restrictor to the matrix level, and this trivalence, I argue, is what is conventionally understood as the uniqueness presupposition of a definite. Crucially, I will show that the oddness perceived during the violation of the uniqueness presupposition of a definite can be analytically captured by such a PEX-based view of the definite-indefinite distinction because it predicts that, exactly in the cases that lead to such a violation, the truth condition of the whole sentence is a contradiction. This talk is the basis for Part II, where I will show some data from Bengali which point exactly to this effect: that definites and indefinites are not all that different after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Shrayana Haldar (MIT) Title: Deriving Uniqueness of Definites from Contradiction Time: Wednesday, October 23, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This is Part I of a two-part talk. In this Part I, I explore a hypothetical: what if definites are not that different from indefinites syntactically? More specifically, extending an idea of Omri Doron&#8217;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16551,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions\/16551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}