Speaker: Keny Chatain (MIT) <\/br>
\nTime: Wednesday, November 23th, 1-2pm <\/br>
\nPlace: 32-D831 <\/br>
\nTitle: Discussioon of: “Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena” (Bumford, 2015). <\/br><\/p>\n
\n\nIn this talk, I will discuss a recent paper by Bumford (No reading required but in case you prefer authencity, you might want to check this: http:\/\/semprag.org\/article\/view\/sp.8.9\/pdf_8_9). This paper attempts to provide a unified account of 3 “pair-list” phenomena: pair-list questions, internal readings of adjectives and pair-list readings of indefinites (aka “Schlenker readings)\n<\/p>\n
\nPAIR-LIST <\/br>
\n(1) What did each student read for the class?<\/br>
\n=> mary checked the syntax paper, Julia the phonology paper, Joe the first line of the abstract of the semantic paper…<\/br>\n<\/p>\n\nINTERNAL ADJECTIVES<\/br>
\n(2) Every year, Mary wrote a more interesting book\/a different book\/another book.<\/br>
\n=> more interesting than\/different from\/other than the books from the previous year<\/br>\n<\/p>\n\nPAIR-LIST READING OF INDEFINITES<\/br>
\n(3) If every player were to play a certain card in his hand right now, the game would end immediately.<\/br>
\n=> there is a certain card in each player’s hand such that if each player use that card in his hand, the game would end immediately.<\/br>\n<\/p>\n\nIn the paper, a unified account is proposed in terms of incremental quantification: “every” is represented as a generalized dynamic conjunction. In this approach, uttering (2) is equivalent to uttering the sequence of sentences: Mary wrote a more interesting book in 2006; Mary wrote a more interesting book in 2007; Mary wrote a more interesting book in 2008; … Modulo extra assumptions about scope-taking, this move, it is claimed, successfully accounts for (1), (2) and (3). On a theoretical side, this makes “every” parallel to indefinites like “a”, which dynamic frameworks treat as generalized dynamic disjunction.\n<\/p>\n
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