{"id":9020,"date":"2016-11-07T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:02:43","slug":"lfrg-119-chris-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/11\/07\/lfrg-119-chris-baron\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 11\/9 &#8212; Chris Baron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/cjbaron\/\">Chris Baron<\/a><\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: <em>A Prospective Puzzle and a Possible Solution<\/em><br clear='none'\/>\nDate and time: November 9 (Wednesday), 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D831<br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is generally assumed that Mayan languages are tenseless, and only grammaticalize aspect (Henderson 2015). This assumption holds for Kaqchikel, a K&#8217;ichean-branch Mayan language of Guatemala (Garc\u00eda Matzar & Rodriguez Guaj\u00e1n 1997). However, there is a puzzling fact about the &#8216;prospective aspect&#8217; morpheme <strong>xk-<\/strong>, which at first blush would seem to locate the run time of the event after the reference time: it cannot be embedded under the temporal adverbial &#8216;yesterday.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(1) Chwa&#8217;q xk-i-muxan.<br clear='none'\/>\ntomorrow PROSP-B1S-swim<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8216;Tomorrow, I will swim.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(2) *Iw\u00efr xk-i-muxan.<br clear='none'\/>\nyesterday PROSP-B1S-swim<br clear='none'\/>\nIntended: &#8216;Yesterday, I was going to swim.&#8217;<br&#8217;><\/p>\n<p>The ungrammaticality of (2) is unexpected if the prospective only locates the event time after the reference time established by <strong>iw\u00efr<\/strong> &#8216;yesterday.&#8217; In this talk on work in progress, I present data that suggest that this aspect not only contributes aspectual semantics, but also modal semantics, and that this is the reason for the puzzling fact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Chris Baron Title: A Prospective Puzzle and a Possible Solution Date and time: November 9 (Wednesday), 1-2pm Location: 32-D831 Abstract: It is generally assumed that Mayan languages are tenseless, and only grammaticalize aspect (Henderson 2015). This assumption holds for Kaqchikel, a K&#8217;ichean-branch Mayan language of Guatemala (Garc\u00eda Matzar &#038; Rodriguez Guaj\u00e1n 1997). However, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9027,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions\/9027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}