{"id":17878,"date":"2026-03-16T08:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=17878"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:34:34","slug":"lf-reading-group-3-18-haoming-li-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/03\/16\/lf-reading-group-3-18-haoming-li-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 3\/18 - Haoming Li (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Haoming Li (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Assertion and presupposition of change-of-state verbs across different aspects (Part 2)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, March 18th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/strong>Sudo (2012); Zehr &amp; Schwarz (2018), among others, have drawn attention to the different discourse and projection behaviors of presuppositions that are entailed by the assertion (e.g., the prior negative state presupposition of\u00a0<i>stop<\/i>) versus those that are non-entailed by the assertion (e.g., the gender presupposition of\u00a0<i>herself<\/i>). Doron, Fox, &amp; Wehbe (2025) note that two dimensional systems of assertion and presupposition specification are too unconstrained and propose to retrieve the assertion of sentences from trivalent propositions via an algorithm that takes into account the deletability of the presupposition triggers (<i>herself<\/i>\u00a0represents the deletable pattern, while\u00a0<i>stop<\/i>\u00a0represents the non-deletable pattern). This talk presents new data on the non-uniform presuppositional behavior of certain change-of-state verbs like\u00a0<i>arrive<\/i>\u00a0in different aspects (<i>arrive<\/i>\u00a0behaves deletably in the present perfect but non-deletably in the simple past) which calls for the system in DF&amp;W, where the same presupposition trigger can in principle be variably deletable or non-deletable depending on the semantic context, and which motivates lexical decomposition approaches to change-of-state verbs. In the second installment of the talk, I will recapitulate the empirical picture and the main analytical ingredients, and then explain in more detail how the analysis works. In addition, I will address an issue raised against the DF&amp;W and my own application thereof, i.e., why\u00a0<i>stop<\/i>\u00a0itself cannot be decomposed in the same manner as\u00a0<i>arrive.\u00a0<\/i>I will show that\u00a0<i>stop<\/i>\u00a0might have two different decompositions depending on whether it is used in a pure change-of-state manner or in a habitual manner. In the former,<i>\u00a0stop<\/i>\u00a0shows the same aspectual alternation in projection like\u00a0<i>arrive\u00a0<\/i>and should indeed be decomposed similarly. In the latter,\u00a0<i>stop<\/i>\u00a0remains the poster child of the non-deletable pattern, and should be decomposed in a differently way.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Haoming Li (MIT) Title: Assertion and presupposition of change-of-state verbs across different aspects (Part 2) Time: Wednesday, March 18th, 1pm - 2pm Location: 32-D461 \u00a0 Abstract: Sudo (2012); Zehr &amp; Schwarz (2018), among others, have drawn attention to the different discourse and projection behaviors of presuppositions that are entailed by the assertion (e.g., the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}