{"id":3070,"date":"2011-10-03T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2011-10-03T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:13:53","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-107-ivan-sag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/10\/03\/linguistics-colloquium-107-ivan-sag\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 10\/7 - Ivan Sag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPEAKER: Ivan Sag &#8212; Stanford University<br clear='none'\/>\nTIME: 3:30 PM, Friday 10\/07<br clear='none'\/>\nLOCATION: 32-141<br clear='none'\/>\nTITLE: Sluicing without Ellipsis <\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This talk examines various arguments that have been made by Merchant<br clear='none'\/>\n(2001, 2004, 2008, to appear) against the direct-interpretation theory<br clear='none'\/>\nof Sluicing and Bare Argument Ellipsis put forth by Ginzburg and Sag<br clear='none'\/>\n(2000) [GSOO] (see also Culicover and Jackendoff, 2005). With more<br clear='none'\/>\ncareful examination of GS00&#8217;s proposal, however, specifically in<br clear='none'\/>\nrelation to the role of salient utterance (SAL-UTT) and the maximal<br clear='none'\/>\nquestion under discussion (MAX-QUD) supplied by context, the arguments<br clear='none'\/>\nmade against the direct-interpretation approach are seen to lose their<br clear='none'\/>\nforce. We also examine data from a number of languages which are<br clear='none'\/>\nproblematic for any deletion-based analysis of Sluicing, showing how<br clear='none'\/>\nthe direct-interpretation approach avoids these difficulties.<br clear='none'\/>\nFinally, we show how GS00&#8217;s analysis interacts with Ginzburg&#8217;s (in<br clear='none'\/>\npress) theory of dialogue to provide an account of `sprouting&#8217; that<br clear='none'\/>\nanswers the arguments against GS00 offered in Chung, Ladusaw, and<br clear='none'\/>\nMcCloskey, to appear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPEAKER: Ivan Sag &#8212; Stanford University TIME: 3:30 PM, Friday 10\/07 LOCATION: 32-141 TITLE: Sluicing without Ellipsis Abstract: This talk examines various arguments that have been made by Merchant (2001, 2004, 2008, to appear) against the direct-interpretation theory of Sluicing and Bare Argument Ellipsis put forth by Ginzburg and Sag (2000) [GSOO] (see also Culicover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}