{"id":8376,"date":"2016-05-02T05:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2016-05-01T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T02:41:03","slug":"lfrg-45-itai-bassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/05\/02\/lfrg-45-itai-bassi\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 5\/4 - Itai Bassi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong>Itai Bassi<\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Existential Semantics for Bare Conditionals (joint work with Moshe E. Bar-Lev)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bare conditionals show quantificational variability contingent on whether they are in an Upward Entailing or a Downward Entailing environment. For example, the conditional in (1) is interpreted universally while (2) existentially:<\/p>\n<p>1) if you work hard you succeed<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nin all cases where you work hard you succeed<\/br><\/p>\n<p>2) no one will succeed if they goof off<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nno x is such that there is a case where they goof off and succeed<\/p>\n<p>We suggest that contrary to the widely accepted view, the basic semantics of if p, q involves existential quantification, and its universal character in UE environments is derived by a grammatical strengthening mechanism of recursive exhaustification over domain alternatives. We further show how the phenomenon of Conditional Perfection (from if p, q to if and only if p, q), a long-standing puzzle, can be derived in our system.<\/p>\n<p>Some challenges to the analysis will be mentioned, as well as the prospects of extending it to deal with Homogeneity phenomena in general.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Itai Bassi (MIT) Time: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 Place: 32-D831 Title: Existential Semantics for Bare Conditionals (joint work with Moshe E. Bar-Lev) Bare conditionals show quantificational variability contingent on whether they are in an Upward Entailing or a Downward Entailing environment. For example, the conditional in (1) is interpreted universally while (2) existentially: 1) [&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-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","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=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}