{"id":16821,"date":"2025-02-10T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2025-02-08T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:10:13","slug":"colloquium-talk-2-14-roni-katzir-tau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/02\/10\/colloquium-talk-2-14-roni-katzir-tau\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium talk 2\/14 \u0097 Roni Katzir (TAU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tau.ac.il\/profile\/rkatzir\">Roni Katzir<\/a> (<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Tel Aviv University<\/span>)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>On the roles of anaphoricity and questions in free focus<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Friday, February 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 3:30-5pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-141<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The sensitivity of focus to context has often been analyzed in terms of anaphoric relations between sentences and surrounding discourse. I will suggest that we abandon this anaphoric view. Instead of anaphoric felicity conditions, I propose that focus leads to infelicity only indirectly, when the processes that it feeds \u0097 in particular, \u00a0exhaustification and question formation \u0097- make an inappropriate contribution to discourse. I outline such an account, incorporating insights from B\u00fcring (2019) and Fox (2019). A challenge to this account comes from cases where anaphoricity seems needed either to block deaccenting that would be licensed by a question or to allow local deaccenting that is not warranted by a question. Such cases appear to support recent anaphoric proposals such as Schwarzschild (2020) and Goodhue (2022). I argue that this potential motivation for anaphoricity is only apparent and that where anaphoric conditions on focus are not inert they are in fact harmful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Roni Katzir (Tel Aviv University) Title: On the roles of anaphoricity and questions in free focus Time: Friday, February 14th, 3:30-5pm Location: 32-141 Abstract: The sensitivity of focus to context has often been analyzed in terms of anaphoric relations between sentences and surrounding discourse. I will suggest that we abandon this anaphoric view. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16822,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16821\/revisions\/16822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}