{"id":5889,"date":"2014-03-10T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2014-03-10T00:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T04:47:31","slug":"lfrg-310-manuel-kriz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/03\/10\/lfrg-310-manuel-kriz\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 3\/10 - Manuel Kriz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Manuel Kriz (Vienna\/Harvard)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday, March 10, 12-1:30.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 66-148<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sentences with definite plurals display a property known as<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8216;homogeneity&#8217;: (1a) is true if John read (roughly) all of the books,<br clear='none'\/>\n(1b) is true if he read none of the books. If he read half of the books,<br clear='none'\/>\nneither sentence is true.<\/p>\n<p>(1)a. John read the books.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nb. John didn&#8217;t read the books.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will be devoted to presenting this phenomenon in greater detail<br clear='none'\/>\n- including the way it extends to collective predicates - and laying out<br clear='none'\/>\nthe problem of homogeneity projection. A sentence like (2) with a<br clear='none'\/>\ndefinite plural embedded unter a quantifier still has an extension gap<br clear='none'\/>\n(i.e. cases where neither it nor its negation are true).<\/p>\n<p>(2) Every girl read the books.<\/p>\n<p>The development of a principled theory to derive which situations are in<br clear='none'\/>\nthe extension gap of such sentences poses considerable difficulties. The<br clear='none'\/>\nlack of a fully satisfactory theory forces an exploration of these<br clear='none'\/>\nissues by way of demonstrating how and why the approaches that have been<br clear='none'\/>\ntried fail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Manuel Kriz (Vienna\/Harvard) Time: Monday, March 10, 12-1:30. Location: 66-148 Sentences with definite plurals display a property known as &#8216;homogeneity&#8217;: (1a) is true if John read (roughly) all of the books, (1b) is true if he read none of the books. If he read half of the books, neither sentence is true. (1)a. John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}