{"id":6530,"date":"2014-10-27T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2014-10-26T18:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:06:55","slug":"ling-lunch-1030-andreea-nicolae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/10\/27\/ling-lunch-1030-andreea-nicolae\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 10\/30 - Andreea Nicolae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/index.php?id=2021&amp;L=1\">Andreea Nicolae<\/a> (ZAS Berlin)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Positive polarity and strength of scalar implicatures<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate\/Time:Thursday, October 30, 12:30-1:45pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The goal of this talk is to offer a new analysis of positive polarity elements in light of the differences between weak and strong disjunction (&#8220;or&#8221; versus &#8220;either or&#8221;). I will be addressing the following three properties of disjunctive elements in this talk:<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n?  the ease of cancelability (strength) of their scalar inference<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n?  the PPI status of a disjunctive element<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n?  the ignorance inference that accompanies both weak and strong disjunction<\/p>\n<p>I will argue the following:<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n? the strength of the SI relates to the nature of the alternatives activated by the element at play, namely whether or not the scalar alternatives are obligatory (non-prunable).<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n? the PPI status is the result of an element&#8217;s appeal to non-vacuous exhaustification, i.e. proper strengthening.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n? the epistemic ignorance inference is the result of a last resort way of avoiding a contradiction, namely via the insertion of a covert modal.<\/p>\n<p>If time permits, we will also see how this account can be carried over to account for the PPI status of existential quantifiers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin) Title: Positive polarity and strength of scalar implicatures Date\/Time:Thursday, October 30, 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 The goal of this talk is to offer a new analysis of positive polarity elements in light of the differences between weak and strong disjunction (&#8220;or&#8221; versus &#8220;either or&#8221;). I will be addressing the following three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}