{"id":18306,"date":"2026-10-19T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:24:23","slug":"colloquium-paloma-jeretic-university-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/10\/19\/colloquium-paloma-jeretic-university-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium - Paloma Jereti\u010d (University of Pennsylvania)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Speaker<\/b>: Paloma Jereti?<\/a> (University of Pennsylvania)<\/div>\n
Title<\/b>: “Studies on Conceptual Alternatives<\/span>“\u00a0<\/div>\n
When<\/b>: Friday, October 23rd, 3:30-5pm\u00a0<\/div>\n
Where<\/b>: 32-141<\/div>\n
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Any current theory of pragmatic meaning relies on reasoning over alternatives, i.e. sentences that could have been uttered instead. However, recent work points to the need for \u0091Conceptual Alternatives\u0092, which are alternative meanings that are built from concepts that do not have a corresponding linguistic form (Buccola, Kri\u009e and Chemla 2021). In this talk, I discuss the Conceptual Alternative hypothesis from the point of view of three studies I have done on the topic: two of them are on the implicated presupposition of anti-duality of \u0093all\u0094, which look at data from French and Ecuadorian Siona, which are two languages without a word for \u0093both\u0094, but differ with respect to whether the word for \u0093all\u0094 is anti-dual. The third is a language acquisition study, which looks at whether children can derive implicatures that exclude an alternative meaning M before they have learned the words that mean M.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker: Paloma Jereti? (University of Pennsylvania) Title: “Studies on Conceptual Alternatives“\u00a0 When: Friday, October 23rd, 3:30-5pm\u00a0 Where: 32-141 \u00a0 Abstract: Any current theory of pragmatic meaning relies on reasoning over alternatives, i.e. sentences that could have been uttered instead. However, recent work points to the need for \u0091Conceptual Alternatives\u0092, which are alternative meanings that are […]<\/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-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","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=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18377,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}