{"id":17463,"date":"2025-10-06T06:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:56:43","slug":"wehbe-published-in-natural-language-semantics-and-journal-of-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/06\/wehbe-published-in-natural-language-semantics-and-journal-of-semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wehbe published in Natural Language Semantics and Journal of Semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This week saw the publication of two papers by dissertation-writing student <a href=\"https:\/\/jadwehbenet.wordpress.com\"><strong>Jad Wehbe<\/strong> <\/a>in <em>Natural Language Semantics<\/em> and <em>Journal of Semantics<\/em>. Congratulations, Jad!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Here are the abstracts of the two papers. Both of the journals provide open access, and you can find the papers in the links below.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Covert reciprocals: a scope-based analysis of reciprocal alternations\u00a0<\/b>(<i>Natural Language Semantics<\/i>).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Link<\/b>:\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk885104\" title=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11050-025-09240-z\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11050-025-09240-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11050-025-09240-z<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract<\/b>: This paper argues that the class of predicates that participate in reciprocal alternations, like the seemingly 1-place predicate\u00a0<i>hug<\/i>\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Jane and Mary hugged<\/i>, should in fact be analyzed as 2-place predicates with a covert reciprocal in object position. The main challenge for this analysis is that there are truth-conditional differences between covert reciprocals and their overt counterparts. Focusing on a few case studies, this paper will argue that these seemingly lexical differences can be reanalyzed in terms of scope, allowing the differences to be systematically predicted once appropriate scope restrictions on covert reciprocals are established. More specifically, I propose that covert reciprocals are simply reciprocals that have to be bound at the lowest possible scope position. I show that these seemingly 1-place predicates behave just like overt reciprocals, modulo the low-scope requirement, for example giving rise to homogeneity and non-maximality. I therefore conclude that in order to account systematically for these inferences, covert reciprocals (at least the case studies that the paper considers) must be treated as having the same LFs as low-scope overt reciprocals.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification\u00a0<\/b>(<i>Journal of Semantics) -\u00a0<\/i>joint work with Janek Guerrini (Goethe University Frankfurt).<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b>Link:\u00a0<\/b><b><a id=\"OWA0e23e841-09e5-2749-5209-6134392a23d8\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink x_elementToProof\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jos\/ffaf007\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jos\/ffaf007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jos\/ffaf007<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:\u00a0<\/b>The goal of this paper is to reconcile two observations regarding homogeneity and non-maximality. First, homogeneity is sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation, both in the positive case and under negation (Wehbe 2022). Second, there are asymmetries between positive and negative sentences with definite plurals (Bar-Lev 2021). We argue that taken together, these two observations support an account of homogeneity in terms of presuppositional exhaustification.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw the publication of two papers by dissertation-writing student Jad Wehbe in Natural Language Semantics and Journal of Semantics. Congratulations, Jad! \u00a0 Here are the abstracts of the two papers. Both of the journals provide open access, and you can find the papers in the links below. \u00a0 Covert reciprocals: a scope-based analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463","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=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17465,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions\/17465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}