{"id":6017,"date":"2014-04-07T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2014-04-07T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:09:39","slug":"essllfrg-410-manuel-kriz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/04\/07\/essllfrg-410-manuel-kriz\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSL\/LFRG 4\/10 - Manuel Kriz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistik.univie.ac.at\/institut\/mitarbeiterinnen\/assistentinnen\/manuel-kriz\/\">Manuel Kriz<\/a> (Vienna\/Harvard)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Finding truth-value gaps<br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time: Thursday, Apr 10, 5:30-7p<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A sentence with a definite plural like (1) has<br clear='none'\/>\nnon-complementary truth- and falsity conditions. It is clearly true if<br clear='none'\/>\nJohn read all of the books, and clearly false if he read none, but if he<br clear='none'\/>\nread exactly half of them, it seems to be neither true nor false.<\/p>\n<p>(1) John read the books.<\/p>\n<p>We develop an experimental method for detecting such a truth-value gap<br clear='none'\/>\nand apply it to sentences where the definite plural is embedded in the<br clear='none'\/>\nscope of a quantifier (as in (2)) to ground empirically recent<br clear='none'\/>\ntheoretical approaches to the phenomenon of homogeneity in plural<br clear='none'\/>\npredication.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Every student read the books.<\/p>\n<p>The paradigm we develop is promising also for the study of and<br clear='none'\/>\ncomparison between other phenomena, including presuppositions,<br clear='none'\/>\nvagueness, and scalar implicatures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Manuel Kriz (Vienna\/Harvard) Title: Finding truth-value gaps Date\/Time: Thursday, Apr 10, 5:30-7p Location: 32-D831 A sentence with a definite plural like (1) has non-complementary truth- and falsity conditions. It is clearly true if John read all of the books, and clearly false if he read none, but if he read exactly half of them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}