Colloquium 9\/24 - Hubert Truckenbrodt<\/p>\n
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 Abstract:<\/p>\n Why do many languages show a natural class of focused phrases and wh-phrases, by Colloquium 9\/24 - Hubert Truckenbrodt Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 Time: 3:30-5:00PM Place: 32-141 Speaker: Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin) Title: Wh is F: prosody and semantics Abstract: Why do many languages show a natural class of focused phrases and wh-phrases, by way of movement to the same position or by marking of both by focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime: 3:30-5:00PM
\nPlace: 32-141
\nSpeaker: Hubert Truckenbrodt (ZAS Berlin)
\nTitle: Wh is F: prosody and semantics<\/em><\/p>\n
\nway of movement to the same position or by marking of both by focus markers?
\nIn focus (Rooth 1992), a scope operator ~C induces the calculation of
\ncontextually relevant alternatives. The focus feature F marks the positions in
\nwhich the alternatives vary. In questions, the scope operator Q induces the
\ncalculation of the question’s meaning as a set of answers. The feature wh marks
\nthe position in which the answers vary. I argue, extending suggestions of Beck
\n2006, that the feature Wh in questions is really the feature F. Its contribution
\nin questions is thus not related to information structure, but part of the
\nmeaning of the interrogative. In the prosodic part of the talk, I argue with
\nJapanese questions, English and German echo questions and multiple questions
\nthat this F in questions is really the stress-attracting feature F that we know
\nfrom its use in information structure. However, the new extended use of F will
\nalso bring into view a systematic exception of its stress-attracting behavior,
\nnamely the presence of a checking-relation of a wh-word with the Q-marker. I
\nsuggest that ‘visibility’ of F within its scope (~C or Q) may either be
\nsatisfied by F carrying the strongest stress in its scope-domain, or by a
\nchecking-relation between F and the scope-marker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"