{"id":7184,"date":"2015-04-06T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2015-04-06T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:12:37","slug":"lfrg-46-mia-nussbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/04\/06\/lfrg-46-mia-nussbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/6 - Mia Nussbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong>Mia Nussbaum<\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: On the difference between only and just<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday, April 6, 2015<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D808<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In some cases, the exclusive particles only and just appear to be interchangeable:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Mary (only\/just) read War and Peace.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(2) (Only\/just) three professors came to the party.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I&#8217;ll be taking a look at some contexts where they diverge, foremost among them the phenomenon of &#8220;minimal sufficiency readings&#8221; in conditionals.<\/p>\n<p>(3) If just three people get on the boat, it will sink.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(4) #If only three people get on the boat, it will sink.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the somewhat implausible reading where three people will sink the boat but four people might not, the sentence with just in (3) has an interpretation that&#8217;s unavailable with only. This is the minimal sufficiency reading, which can be paraphrased as &#8220;If at least three people (which is not a lot) get on the boat, it will sink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will look at some arguments for and against two competing analyses of minimal sufficiency readings: Grosz (2011)&#8217;s lexical-ambiguity hypothesis, and Coppock and Beaver (2014)&#8217;s scope hypothesis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Mia Nussbaum (MIT) Title: On the difference between only and just Time: Monday, April 6, 2015 Place: 32-D808 In some cases, the exclusive particles only and just appear to be interchangeable: (1) Mary (only\/just) read War and Peace. (2) (Only\/just) three professors came to the party. In this talk, I&#8217;ll be taking a look [&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-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","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=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7186,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/7186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}