{"id":7897,"date":"2015-11-30T05:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2015-11-30T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:02:38","slug":"ling-lunch-123-aron-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/11\/30\/ling-lunch-123-aron-hirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling Lunch 12\/3 -  Aron Hirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/prosodylab.org\/lab\/aron-hirsch\/\">Aron Hirsch <\/a><\/strong>(MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle:  A case for conjunction reduction &#8212; Part II <\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, December 3rd, 12:30-1:45 pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The conjunction operator &#8216;and&#8217; can apparently conjoin a range of different expressions:<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. [John danced] and [John sang]<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nb. b. John [hugged] and [pet] the dog.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nc. John saw [every student] and [every professor]<\/p>\n<p>A possible starting hypothesis about the semantic analysis of and holds that and makes a parallel contribution to the connective & of propositional logic.  If so, &#8216;and&#8217; must compose with two expressions denoting truth-values.  This is consistent with (1a), but incorrectly predicts (1b) and (1c) to be uninterpretable.  This talk will focus on examples like (1c), and address the question: what mechanisms does the grammar make available to parse (1c), and do they localize in the syntax or in the semantics?<\/p>\n<p>The semantic approach rests on type-ambiguity: and has a flexible type and so can directly conjoin a range of expressions, including quantificational DPs (&#8216;DP analysis&#8217;; e.g. Partee & Rooth 1983).  The syntactic approach holds that and in (1c) does not conjoin DPs, but rather larger constituents of type t (&#8216;Conjunction Reduction; CR&#8217;; e.g. Ross 1967, Schein 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the talk is to build a case for CR.  Theoretically, I demonstrate that a CR analysis of (1c) &#8220;follows for fee&#8221; from independently proposed syntactic mechanisms, in particular Johnson&#8217;s (1996, 2009) syntax for gapping (Wilder 1994, Schwarz 1998, 1999, 2000).  Empirically, I introduce data which CR can account for, but the DP analysis cannot, supporting the theoretical prediction that CR is available.  Finally, I discuss empirical arguments for a strengthened conclusion that CR is not only an &#8216;available&#8217; analysis of apparent DP conjunction, but is the only available analysis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Aron Hirsch (MIT) Title: A case for conjunction reduction &#8212; Part II Time: Thursday, December 3rd, 12:30-1:45 pm Place: 32-D461 The conjunction operator &#8216;and&#8217; can apparently conjoin a range of different expressions: (1) a. [John danced] and [John sang] b. b. John [hugged] and [pet] the dog. c. John saw [every student] and [every [&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-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}