{"id":1939,"date":"2010-11-15T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2010-11-14T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:02:34","slug":"mit-linguistics-colloquium-1119-jon-nissenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/11\/15\/mit-linguistics-colloquium-1119-jon-nissenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Linguistics Colloquium 11\/19 - Jon Nissenbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/jnissenb.mysite.syr.edu\/\">Jon Nissenbaum<\/a> (Syracuse University)<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Pseudo Pseudo-Scope<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, November 19, 2010<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30-5:00PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM)<BR><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P>The ability of an infinitival clause to contain a gap is often dependent on<br clear='none'\/>\nthe syntactic environment. At first glance, infinitival clauses with degree<br clear='none'\/>\noperators (too, enough) seem exceptional, freely alternating between a gapped<br clear='none'\/>\nand gapless version: Bob is too mean [for me to talk to (him)]. But this<br clear='none'\/>\nalternation turns out to be dependent on the syntactic position of the degree<br clear='none'\/>\nphrase at LF, as Bernhard Schwarz and I have argued in recent work. An<br clear='none'\/>\ninfinitival degree phrase with a gap must (ordinarily) be interpreted as the<br clear='none'\/>\nsister of a gradable adjective (in situ), while a gapless one must raise at LF.<br clear='none'\/>\nWe argued, in other words, that the distribution of gaps in degree phrase<br clear='none'\/>\ninfinitives is well-behaved after all, following from semantic<br clear='none'\/>\ncompositionality.<\/P><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>      However, the picture cannot be so simple. The gapless degree infinitive,<br clear='none'\/>\nin addition to being able to scope past an intensional verb, allows a third<br clear='none'\/>\nreading distinct from either the ordinary wide or narrow scope interpretation.<br clear='none'\/>\nThis resembles familiar cases of transparent readings of DPs: interpreted in<br clear='none'\/>\nthe scope of an intensional operator without being bound by that operator. But<br clear='none'\/>\nour transparent readings give rise to a conundrum: they are incompatible with<br clear='none'\/>\ngaps&#8212;the opposite of what is expected under narrow scope.<\/P><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>      The first part of this talk will report continued joint work with<br clear='none'\/>\nSchwarz, rejecting our earlier proposal about these mysterious readings. We<br clear='none'\/>\nargue instead that the third reading is really a species of wide scope LF. I<br clear='none'\/>\nwill sketch a proposal about how its peculiar truth conditions are derived. The<br clear='none'\/>\nsecond part of the talk will attempt to re-situate infinitival degree phrases<br clear='none'\/>\nwithin a more general theory of gapped and gapless infinitivals.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jon Nissenbaum (Syracuse University) Title: Pseudo Pseudo-Scope Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 Time: 3:30-5:00PM Place: 32-155 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM) The ability of an infinitival clause to contain a gap is often dependent on the syntactic environment. At first glance, infinitival clauses with degree operators (too, enough) seem exceptional, freely alternating between a gapped and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}