{"id":1900,"date":"2010-11-01T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:04:50","slug":"mit-linguistics-colloquium-115-valentine-hacquard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/01\/mit-linguistics-colloquium-115-valentine-hacquard\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics Colloquium 11\/5 - Valentine Hacquard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Speaker:   Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Epistemics, mood and attitudes<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nDate:   Friday, November 05, 2010<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime:   3:30-5:00PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace:  32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM)<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nEpistemic modals are notoriously difficult to embed. This talk will focus<br clear='none'\/>\non epistemic modals in complements of attitudes verbs. I will show that<br clear='none'\/>\nepistemics can appear in the complements of some, but not all attitudes. A<br clear='none'\/>\nrough generalization is that they are prohibited in complements of verbs<br clear='none'\/>\nthat select for subjunctive mood in Romance. I will present joint work<br clear='none'\/>\nwith Pranav Anand that aims at explaining this generalization: why is the<br clear='none'\/>\ndistribution of epistemics restricted, and what role, if any, does mood<br clear='none'\/>\nplays?<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland Title: Epistemics, mood and attitudes Date: Friday, November 05, 2010 Time: 3:30-5:00PM Place: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM) Epistemic modals are notoriously difficult to embed. This talk will focus on epistemic modals in complements of attitudes verbs. I will show that epistemics can appear in the complements of some, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}