{"id":3285,"date":"2011-11-15T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:53:44","slug":"lfrg-1118-mitcho-michael-erlewine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/11\/15\/lfrg-1118-mitcho-michael-erlewine\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 11\/18 - mitcho (Michael Erlewine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: mitcho (Michael Erlewine)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Focus islands<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32D-831<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Friday, Nov 18, 1:00PM-2:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk I discuss the phenomena of &#8220;focus islands&#8221;: that F-marked constituents cannot move out of the scope of focus-sensitive operators. This phenomenon was first noted by Tancredi (1990) for overt movement and Aoun & Li (1993) argued that this constraint also affects quantifier scope.<\/p>\n<p>1. * [Who<sub>i<\/sub>]<sub>F<\/sub> does John only like t<sub>i<\/sub>? (Tancredi 1990)<br clear='none'\/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;       Intended: &#8216;Who is the person x such that John only likes [x]<sub>F<\/sub>?&#8217;<br clear='none'\/>\n2. A teacher only likes every [boy]<sub>F<\/sub>.<br clear='none'\/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;       a teacher > every boy, * every boy > a teacher (Aoun & Li 1993)<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I share some work-in-progress thoughts on explaining focus islandhood. The presentation may (or may not) involve a discussion of recent literature on computing focus alternatives with or without variables in semantics (Shan 2004, Novel & Romero 2009).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: mitcho (Michael Erlewine) Title: Focus islands Location: 32D-831 Time: Friday, Nov 18, 1:00PM-2:30PM Abstract: In this talk I discuss the phenomena of &#8220;focus islands&#8221;: that F-marked constituents cannot move out of the scope of focus-sensitive operators. This phenomenon was first noted by Tancredi (1990) for overt movement and Aoun &#038; Li (1993) argued that [&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-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}