Date\/Time: Tuesday, Jun 3, 1:30pm
\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n
Speaker: Patrick Elliott (University College London)
\nTitle: Illusory Repair and the PF-Theory of Islands<\/p>\n
\n\nIn this talk (based on joint work with Matt Barros & Gary Thoms) we argue against the proposal that island violations are repaired by ellipsis. Building on Merchant (2001), we develop an approach to repair-effects based on a number of distinct evasion strategies, which involve a degree of non-isomorphism between the ellipsis site and its antecedent. Island-violations are side-stepped, just so long as a non-island-violating evasion source is available. When non-isomorphism is controlled for, island effects re-emerge. We show this for both sluicing (widely assumed to be island-insensitive) and fragment answers (widely assumed to be island-sensitive). Only the evasion approach can account for the whole set of facts. We conclude: (i) the conjecture that island conditions are fundamentally phonological in nature is incorrect (ii) islands provide a strong argument for silent syntactic structure.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Speaker: Yasutada Sudo (University College London)
\nTitle: How Scalar Implicatures and Presupposition Interact<\/p>\n\n(Joint work with Benjamin Spector.)<\/p>\n
We investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in sentences involving both a presupposition trigger and a scalar item, e.g. “John is (un)aware that some of the students smoke”. We first discuss Gajewski & Sharvit’s (2012) account and point out empirical problems for it. Then we present an alternative analysis which is a very natural extension of \u0091standard\u0092 treatments of scalar implicatures. We show that it nicely explains the data that is problematic for Gajewski & Sharvit, but claim that it fails to account of the full range of data. This discussion leads us to pursue a view where two distinct strengthening mechanisms are at play. Our key data involves what we call “presupposed ignorance”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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