{"id":3798,"date":"2012-03-12T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2012-03-11T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T14:45:57","slug":"lfrg-special-session-316-masa-yamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/03\/12\/lfrg-special-session-316-masa-yamada\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG special session 3\/16 - Masa Yamada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Masa Yamada (University of Kyoto\/University of Chicago)<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: 3\/16 (Friday) 3:30-5 pm **(Note unusual time)**<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Reciprocal and Pluraction in Japanese<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Numerous languages employ a morpheme that signals plurality,<br clear='none'\/>\ndistributivity, or pluractionality to describe real world reciprocal<br clear='none'\/>\nsituations. The Japanese verbal suffix -aw has reciprocal and<br clear='none'\/>\nnon-reciprocal pluraction uses, but the previous studies only focus on<br clear='none'\/>\nthe former use. I will propose two type-shift variants for the lexical<br clear='none'\/>\nmeaning of the suffix and argue that the two uses are due to some sort<br clear='none'\/>\nof structural ambiguity in the verbal projection. When it combines<br clear='none'\/>\nwith a semantic transitive predicate (i.e. a relation between two<br clear='none'\/>\nindividuals), the canonical reciprocal interpretation obtains; when it<br clear='none'\/>\ncombines with a semantic intransitive predicate (i.e. a property of<br clear='none'\/>\nindividual, a context sensitive pluraction meaning results. I will<br clear='none'\/>\nalso demonstrate that the proposed analysis of the verbal reciprocal<br clear='none'\/>\ncorrectly captures its interaction with other verbal suffixes such as<br clear='none'\/>\ncausative and applicative. This is a formal case study of the widely<br clear='none'\/>\nobserved phenomenon of (seemingly) polysemy of a linguistic reciprocal<br clear='none'\/>\nexpression.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Masa Yamada (University of Kyoto\/University of Chicago) Date\/Time: 3\/16 (Friday) 3:30-5 pm **(Note unusual time)** Location: 32-D831 Title: Reciprocal and Pluraction in Japanese Abstract: Numerous languages employ a morpheme that signals plurality, distributivity, or pluractionality to describe real world reciprocal situations. The Japanese verbal suffix -aw has reciprocal and non-reciprocal pluraction uses, but the [&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-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","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=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}