{"id":8208,"date":"2016-04-04T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2016-04-04T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:17:03","slug":"lfrg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/04\/04\/lfrg\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/6 - Mike Jacques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong>Mike Jacques<\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Wednesday, April 6th, 1-2pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Approximators and Exceptives<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a class of approximators (almost, nearly, practically) that have an anomalous distribution with quantifiers - approximator + universal quantifier is grammatical, while approximator + existential quantifier is ungrammatical. Consider the following data:<\/p>\n<p>a. Almost\/Nearly\/Practically every student is here<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n         b. Almost\/Nearly\/Practically no students are here<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n         c. *Almost\/Nearly\/Practically {some\/most\/the\/5} students are here<\/p>\n<p>Previous analyses of these operators have failed to account for the distribution in (1). I argue that the key data point in trying to give a semantics for these approximators is their close relation with exceptive phrases. Consider the exceptive phrases with but in (2):<\/p>\n<p>a. Every student but John is here<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n         b. No student but John is here<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n         c. *Some\/Most\/5\/the students but John are here<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I argue that a precise semantics for these approximators can be given in terms of an exceptive semantics, where the exception itself is existentially quantified. I show that this semantics, coupled with pragmatic considerations of \u0093closeness,\u0094 gives a straightforward prediction for approximators and quantifiers, which correctly accounts for the data in (1).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Mike Jacques (MIT) Time: Wednesday, April 6th, 1-2pm Place: 32-D831 Title: Approximators and Exceptives There is a class of approximators (almost, nearly, practically) that have an anomalous distribution with quantifiers - approximator + universal quantifier is grammatical, while approximator + existential quantifier is ungrammatical. Consider the following data: a. Almost\/Nearly\/Practically every student is here [&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-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","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=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}