{"id":3726,"date":"2012-02-27T05:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2012-02-27T01:46:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T05:46:37","slug":"lfrg-31-ayaka-sugawara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/02\/27\/lfrg-31-ayaka-sugawara\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 3\/1 - Ayaka Sugawara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The English suffix -ish as a degree head<br clear='none'\/>\nSpeaker: Ayaka Sugawara<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday Mar 1, 10:00AM-11:30AM<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this talk, I would like to discuss the semantics of the English suffix <em>-ish<\/em>. Little theoretical work has been done on the nature of the English suffix <em>-ish<\/em>, whose suffixation is highly productive (see Morris (2009) for descriptive work). Intuitively <em>-is<\/em>h modifies the degree of the base it appends to. Contrary to this naive view, I will argue that -ish is a degree head of type &lang;&lang;d, &lang;e, t&rang;&rang;, &lang;e, t&rang;&rang; (cf. \u0093pos\u0094 of Kennedy (2007)). I will also discuss the consequences of this analysis on the semantic theory of gradable adjectives, especially their scale structures and the semantics of their positive forms. I will focus on <em>-ish<\/em> in Adjective-<em>ish<\/em>, but would like to discuss briefly Adverb-<em>ish<\/em> (such as <em>now-ish<\/em> or ?<em>regularly-ish<\/em>) and Noun-ish (such as <em>childish<\/em> or <em>toy-ish<\/em>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The English suffix -ish as a degree head Speaker: Ayaka Sugawara Date\/Time: Thursday Mar 1, 10:00AM-11:30AM Location: 32-D831 In this talk, I would like to discuss the semantics of the English suffix -ish. Little theoretical work has been done on the nature of the English suffix -ish, whose suffixation is highly productive (see Morris [&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-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","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=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}