{"id":3085,"date":"2011-10-03T05:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2011-10-02T23:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:13:35","slug":"lfrg-107-rick-nouwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/10\/03\/lfrg-107-rick-nouwen\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 10\/7 - Rick Nouwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Rick Nouwen<br clear='none'\/>\nWHAT: The projection of appositives<br clear='none'\/>\nWHEN: Friday 7 October, 1:00PM-2:30PM<br clear='none'\/>\nWHERE: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nominal appositives (NAs) have non-trivial projection behaviour. For instance, Wang et al. 2005 observed that while NAs are normally interpreted with widest scope, the nominal appositive in (1) restricts the if-clause. This reading is unavailable with an appositive relative in that same position.<\/p>\n<p>(1) If a professor, a famous one, writes a book, he will earn a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>I discuss a potential approach to the projection behaviour of NAs that on a syntactic and semantic level is identical to Schlenker&#8217;s 2010 proposal for non-restrictive relative clauses, but which differs with respect to pragmatic conditions. In a nutshell, what accounts for the complex projection behaviour is that nominal appositives have flexible syntactic attachment, are interpreted as conjuncts with an e-type subject pronoun and prefer wide-scope interpretations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Rick Nouwen WHAT: The projection of appositives WHEN: Friday 7 October, 1:00PM-2:30PM WHERE: 32-D831 Nominal appositives (NAs) have non-trivial projection behaviour. For instance, Wang et al. 2005 observed that while NAs are normally interpreted with widest scope, the nominal appositive in (1) restricts the if-clause. This reading is unavailable with an appositive relative in [&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-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}