{"id":7160,"date":"2015-03-30T05:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T09:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2015-03-29T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T03:24:06","slug":"ling-lunch-42-cassandra-chapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/03\/30\/ling-lunch-42-cassandra-chapman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 4\/2 - Cassandra Chapman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong> Cassandra Chapman  <\/strong> (McMaster University\/ MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Restricting the antecedent domain using focus: New evidence from English DPs  <\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thurs 4\/2, 12:30-1:45<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I investigate a previously overlooked use of the English morphological form one, which occurs with the definite determiner and an overt noun, i.e. &#8220;the one dress&#8221;. I show that these constructions have a distinct interpretation from numeral &#8220;one&#8221; constructions and definite descriptions. Similarly to a subset of definite descriptions, the referent in &#8220;the one&#8221; N constructions must have an antecedent in the context. However, they differ from definite descriptions because the context cannot restrict the domain to a set that contains only one individual. I also show that in &#8220;the one&#8221; N constructions, either &#8220;one&#8221; or a modifier, e.g. &#8220;blue&#8221;, must be Focus-marked.<\/p>\n<p>I argue that the English data provide empirical support for a covert restrictor variable, R (Barto\u009aov\u00e1, accepted; von Fintel and Heim, 2011), in the DP structure. I propose that R ensures that there is a salient antecedent in the common ground, in a similar way to Rooth\u0092s ~ operator. Unlike Rooth\u0092s ~ operator, which requires a propositional antecedent, I argue that R is of a flexible semantic type (cf. Schwarzschild 1999\u0092s compositional notion of givenness). Specifically, I propose that R adjoins to Focus-marked maximal projections, and that its type depends on the semantic type of its sister. I argue that the introduction of a covert restrictor variable into the structure of English DPs not only allows us to provide a unified analysis of the different anaphoric readings of one but that it may also shed light on how we might understand Rooth\u0092s ~ operator, and how we might relate Rooth\u0092s theory of focus to Schwarzschild\u0092s theory of givenness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Cassandra Chapman (McMaster University\/ MIT) Title: Restricting the antecedent domain using focus: New evidence from English DPs Time: Thurs 4\/2, 12:30-1:45 Place: 32-D461 In this talk, I investigate a previously overlooked use of the English morphological form one, which occurs with the definite determiner and an overt noun, i.e. &#8220;the one dress&#8221;. I show [&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-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","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=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}