{"id":7076,"date":"2015-03-09T05:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2015-03-08T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:02:21","slug":"lfrg-93-aron-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/03\/09\/lfrg-93-aron-hirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 3\/9 - Aron Hirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/prosodylab.org\/lab\/aron-hirsch\/\"><strong>Aron Hirsch<\/strong><\/a> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Conjoining quantifiers<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday 3\/9, 12-1:30<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The examples in (1) are straightforward to interpret if movement leaves in situ a variable (e.g. Heim & Kratzer 1998).  I will show, however, that they pose a challenge under the well-motivated view that movement leaves in situ copies that are converted into definite descriptions by Fox&#8217;s (1999, 2002) trace conversion.<\/p>\n<p>(1)      a.  I talked to John and every student.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n    b. I talked to every student but no professor.  (due to Kai von Fintel)<\/p>\n<p>I will explore possible analyses for (1a) and (1b) compatible with trace conversion, and suggest that the most promising solution involves conjunction reduction.  In the final part of the presentation, I will discuss evidence which contradicts a classic variable-based approach, and supports the trace conversion-based approach suggested.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Aron Hirsch (MIT) Title: Conjoining quantifiers Time: Monday 3\/9, 12-1:30 Place: 32-D831 The examples in (1) are straightforward to interpret if movement leaves in situ a variable (e.g. Heim &#038; Kratzer 1998). I will show, however, that they pose a challenge under the well-motivated view that movement leaves in situ copies that are converted [&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-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","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=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7080,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}