{"id":17526,"date":"2025-10-27T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:34:08","slug":"colloquium-yael-sharvit-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/27\/colloquium-yael-sharvit-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium - Yael Sharvit (UCLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">Speaker<\/b>: Yael Sharvit (UCLA)\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Title<\/b>: \u0093Disjunctive antecedents, accommodation and type-flexibility\u0094<\/div>\n<div><b>When<\/b>: Friday, October 31st, 3:30-5pm\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Where<\/b>: 32-141\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Abstract:\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Examples (1a) and (1b) are equivalent. One of their readings presupposes (2) and asserts (3). In view of these facts, we defend (A)-(B).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(1<a name=\"x_x_x_p7\"><\/a>)\u00a0 \u00a0a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If Mia is penniless or proud of her money, then Sue is.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If Mia is proud of her money or penniless, then Sue is.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If Mia has money, then the presuppositions of \u0091if Mia is proud of her money, Sue is proud of her money\u0092 are true.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(3) \u00a0 \u00a0If Mia is penniless, Sue is penniless, and<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If Mia has money and is proud of Mia&#8217;s money, Sue is proud of Sue&#8217;s money.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(A) \u0091or\u0092 is lexically symmetric (as in Karttunen &amp; Peters 1979, and contra accommodation-based theories).\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(B) \u0091if\u0092 is type-flexible (as in Rooth &amp; Partee 1982).\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yael Sharvit (UCLA)\u00a0 Title: \u0093Disjunctive antecedents, accommodation and type-flexibility\u0094 When: Friday, October 31st, 3:30-5pm\u00a0 Where: 32-141\u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract:\u00a0 Examples (1a) and (1b) are equivalent. One of their readings presupposes (2) and asserts (3). In view of these facts, we defend (A)-(B). \u00a0 (1)\u00a0 \u00a0a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If Mia is penniless or proud of her money, then Sue [&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-17526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","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=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17801,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions\/17801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}