Speaker: Loes Koring (Utrecht)<\/br>
\nTitle: The semantics and acquisition of non-embedding reportatives<\/br>
\nTime: Thursday, November 6, 5:30-7<\/br>
\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n
\nTwo seemingly similar Dutch evidential raising verbs, schijnen and lijken,
\nhave been shown to differ in their distribution (Haegeman 2006). Although
\nthey can both be translated to \u0091seem\u0092 in English, they do differ in meaning
\n(van Bruggen 1980, Vliegen 2011). Schijnen means that the speaker has indirect
\nreported evidence for the proposition (Vliegen 2011, cf. De Haan 1999);
\nwhereas lijken means that the speaker has some type of direct evidence for the
\nproposition, but the evidence is unclear (van Bruggen 1980). Interestingly,
\nwhereas lijken can be embedded under modals, negation, and questions for
\ninstance, schijnen cannot. One goal of this talk is to identify a semantic
\nproperty that is responsible for the restrictions in distribution reportative
\nschijnen shows. The claim is that schijnen is restricted in evaluation to the here
\nand now of the speaker (i.e. it is subjective) and as such it cannot occur in
\nnonveridical contexts (cf. Giannakidou 2011). Crucially, the difference in
\nsemantics between schijnen and lijken does not only affect their distribution,
\nbut also their acquisition and processing. As a secondary goal of this talk, we
\nwill look at the effect of the extra semantic computation in acquisition and
\nprocessing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker: Loes Koring (Utrecht) Title: The semantics and acquisition of non-embedding reportatives Time: Thursday, November 6, 5:30-7 Place: 32-D461 Two seemingly similar Dutch evidential raising verbs, schijnen and lijken, have been shown to differ in their distribution (Haegeman 2006). Although they can both be translated to \u0091seem\u0092 in English, they do differ in meaning (van […]<\/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-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}