{"id":2143,"date":"2011-02-07T05:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T10:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2011-02-06T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:19:28","slug":"ling-lunch-210-wataru-uegaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/07\/ling-lunch-210-wataru-uegaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 2\/10 - Wataru Uegaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Wataru Uegaki<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Controller shift in centered-world semantics<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, February 10, 12:30-1:45pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<p>(This is a practice talk for the workshop &#8220;Grammar of Attitudes&#8221; at<br clear='none'\/>\nthe 33rd meeting of DGfS to be held on February 23rd at University of<br clear='none'\/>\nG\u00f6ttingen.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><\/p>\n<p>English control shift (CS) (Hust & Brame 1976) is a phenomenon where<br clear='none'\/>\nthe understood subject of an obligatory control complement corresponds<br clear='none'\/>\nto an argument that is different from the verb\u0092s ordinary controller,<br clear='none'\/>\nas exemplified in (1).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a. John<sub>i<\/sub> was promised by Mary<sub>j<\/sub> PRO<sub>i<\/sub> to be allowed to perjure himself<sub>i<\/sub>.<br clear='none'\/>\n    b.  John<sub>i<\/sub> asked Mary<sub>j<\/sub> PRO<sub>i<\/sub> to be allowed to leave.<\/ol>\n<p>In this talk, I will argue that this long-standing problem can be<br clear='none'\/>\ngiven a straightforward analysis within the centered-world analysis of<br clear='none'\/>\nattitude ascription (cf. e.g., Lewis 1979), which is independently<br clear='none'\/>\nmotivated to deal with the semantics of de se attitude reports. The<br clear='none'\/>\nbasic proposals are the following: (i) the participants of the event<br clear='none'\/>\npredicated of by the control complement must consist of the<br clear='none'\/>\ncounterparts of those of the matrix attitude (i.e. obligatory de se<br clear='none'\/>\nreading), (ii) the lexical semantics of \u0093subject\/object control\u0094 verbs<br clear='none'\/>\nare such that their subject\/object arguments correspond to the agent<br clear='none'\/>\nof the complement event, (iii) In CS, the complement contains an<br clear='none'\/>\nimplicit agent argument in addition to PRO, which makes the complement<br clear='none'\/>\ndenote a \u0091double-centered\u0092 proposition with both the author-center and<br clear='none'\/>\nthe addressee-center. Among these, (i) and (ii) apply to obligatory<br clear='none'\/>\ncontrol in general, and only (iii) is the proposal specific to CS. In<br clear='none'\/>\nthe talk, I will show how this system allows a straightforward<br clear='none'\/>\nanalysis of CS, and discuss its implications.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Wataru Uegaki Title: Controller shift in centered-world semantics Time: Thursday, February 10, 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 (This is a practice talk for the workshop &#8220;Grammar of Attitudes&#8221; at the 33rd meeting of DGfS to be held on February 23rd at University of G\u00f6ttingen.) English control shift (CS) (Hust &#038; Brame 1976) is a phenomenon where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}