{"id":8003,"date":"2016-02-16T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2016-02-15T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:29:56","slug":"lfrg-217-yimei-xiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/02\/16\/lfrg-217-yimei-xiang\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 2\/17 - Yimei Xiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong>Yimei Xiang<\/strong><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Wednesday, February 17, 1-2pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Short answers, mention-some, and uniqueness: A hybrid approach for questions<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This talk will discuss three issues related to the semantics of questions, including (i) the derivation of short answers, (ii) the variations of exhaustivity in diamond-questions like (1), and (iii) the dilemma between uniqueness (Dayal 1996) and mention-some (Fox 2013).<\/p>\n<p>(1)      Who can chair the committee?<\/p>\n<p>First, to derive short answers grammatically, I propose a hybrid approach to compose the semantics of questions. Under this approach, the root denotation of a question is a topical property (a la categorial approaches), while then exercising an answerhood-operator returns a set of good propositional answers (like Hamblin-Karttunen semantics) or a set of good short answers. Second, to predict mention-some grammatically, I adopt Fox\u0092s (2013) view that completeness amounts to maximal informativity instead of strongestness. I argue that the mention-some\/mention-all ambiguity in a diamond-question comes from the absence\/presence of a covert DOU-operator (viz., the covert counterpart of Mandarin dou) (compare Fox 2013). Third, to solve the dilemma between uniqueness and mention-some, I propose that the strongestness of a true short answer can be evaluated under any property that yields the same world partition (Groenendijk & Stokhof 1984) as the actual topical property. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Yimei Xiang Time: Wednesday, February 17, 1-2pm Place: 32-D831 Title: Short answers, mention-some, and uniqueness: A hybrid approach for questions This talk will discuss three issues related to the semantics of questions, including (i) the derivation of short answers, (ii) the variations of exhaustivity in diamond-questions like (1), and (iii) the dilemma between uniqueness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}