{"id":8368,"date":"2016-05-02T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2016-05-01T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T21:00:50","slug":"colloquium-56-daniel-buring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/05\/02\/colloquium-56-daniel-buring\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium 5\/6 - Daniel B\u00fcring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/daniel.buring\/phpsite\/index.php?lang=en\"><strong>Daniel B\u00fcring<\/strong><\/a> (University of Vienna)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Backgrounded ? Given \u0097 The relation between focusing, givenness and stress in English<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Friday, May 6th<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 3:30-5:00 PM<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-141<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Standard wisdom sees the given\/new distinction, and its effects on (de)accenting, as either independent of, and ultimately secondary to, focusing (e.g. Fery & Samek-Lodovici 2006, Katz & Selkirk 2011), or subsumes it wholesale under an anaphoric theory of focusing (e.g. Schwarzschild 1999, Wagner 2006,2012, B\u00fcring 2012). <\/p>\n<p> In this talk I explore a novel and rather different picture: givenness is a necessary, but not, ever, sufficient condition for deaccenting (or more in general for what I call \u0093prosodic reversal\u0094), and so is \u0093contrastive focusabilty\u0094 (of the then-accented element). Crucially, the target of focussing (say, the value of C in Rooth\u0092s, 1992, ~C), never has to be contextually salient; in other words: focusing is not anaphoric. Consequently, even the background of a focus only needs to be given if is deaccented (\u0093prosodically demoted\u0094). <\/p>\n<p> This view offers new perspectives on a number of thorny problems, including the proper analysis of deaccenting (or the lack thereof) within broad foci (and yes, there will be \u0093convertible\u0094 examples!). In a nutshell, using non-anaphoric focal targets (which now we may!), we can re-analyze all cases of apparent anaphoric deaccenting as narrow contrastive foci, while the givenness condition ensures that we do not deaccent (though possibly background) non-given elements. <\/p>\n<p> The proposal is implemented in Unalternative Semantics, a new method for calculating focus alternatives, which solely looks at whether two sister nodes show default or non-default relative stress (no F- or G-marking!). I show that this method provides for a particularly natural implementation of the division of labor between focus and givenness argued for. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Daniel B\u00fcring (University of Vienna) Title: Backgrounded ? Given \u0097 The relation between focusing, givenness and stress in English Date: Friday, May 6th Time: 3:30-5:00 PM Place: 32-141 Standard wisdom sees the given\/new distinction, and its effects on (de)accenting, as either independent of, and ultimately secondary to, focusing (e.g. Fery &#038; Samek-Lodovici 2006, Katz [&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-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","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=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}