{"id":9105,"date":"2016-11-28T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2016-11-27T23:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T03:18:04","slug":"lfrg-1130-verena-hehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/11\/28\/lfrg-1130-verena-hehl\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 11\/30 - Verena Hehl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Verena Hehl (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Wednesday, November 30th, 1-2pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Discussion of: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11050-007-9004-0\">On the meaning of some focus-sensitive particles<\/a>&#8221; (Ippolito 2007).<\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIn the paper Ippolito argues that the aspectual, marginality, and concessive uses of &#8216;still&#8217; and &#8216;already&#8217; in (1), (2) and (3) can be reduced to the following three classes of focus-sensitive particles: additive particles like &#8216;too&#8217;, scalar particles like &#8216;even&#8217;, exclusive particles like &#8216;only&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>\n(1) John is still\/ already cooking.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(2) (a) Compact cars are still safe; subcompacts start to get dangerous.<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  (b) (Compact cars are still safe.) Subcompacts are already dangerous. <\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n(3) (Even) if the doctor tells him not to, Harry will still run the marathon.<\/br>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe paper then features a (non-uniform) compositional analysis of the presuppositions triggered by &#8216;still\/ already&#8217; that sheds (new?) lights on the focus-sensitive particle &#8216;again&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Verena Hehl (MIT) Time: Wednesday, November 30th, 1-2pm Place: 32-D831 Title: Discussion of: &#8220;On the meaning of some focus-sensitive particles&#8221; (Ippolito 2007). In the paper Ippolito argues that the aspectual, marginality, and concessive uses of &#8216;still&#8217; and &#8216;already&#8217; in (1), (2) and (3) can be reduced to the following three classes of focus-sensitive particles: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9110,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}