{"id":9127,"date":"2016-12-05T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2016-12-05T09:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:03:42","slug":"lfrg-127-mitya-privoznov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/12\/05\/lfrg-127-mitya-privoznov\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 12\/7 - Mitya Privoznov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Mitya Privoznov (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, December 5th, 1-2pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Place<\/strong>: 32-D831<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Discussion of Aloni and Port&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maloni.humanities.uva.nl\/aloniport.pdf\">2006<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maloni.humanities.uva.nl\/resources\/aloni-port-EI-webversion.pdf\">2014<\/a> papers on epistemic indefinites<\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nEnglish someone can give rise to the speaker&#8217;s ignorance implicature (Somebody arrived late &#8212;> the speaker doesn&#8217;t know who). Some of its analogues in other languages, e.g. German `irgendein&#8217; or Russian `kto-to&#8217;, have conventionalized this implicature into an inference. Namely, the ignorance inference became a part of their semantics. And it is these elements that Aloni and Port call epistemic indefinites (EIs).<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ignorance inference is the main focus of Aloni and Port&#8217;s papers. They are proposing an analysis that derives this inference with the use of Aloni (2001)&#8217;s theory of concepts and conceptual covers. They argue that EI represent a special case of domain widening. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Mitya Privoznov (MIT) Time: Wednesday, December 5th, 1-2pm Place: 32-D831 Title: Discussion of Aloni and Port&#8217;s 2006 and 2014 papers on epistemic indefinites English someone can give rise to the speaker&#8217;s ignorance implicature (Somebody arrived late &#8212;> the speaker doesn&#8217;t know who). Some of its analogues in other languages, e.g. German `irgendein&#8217; or Russian [&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-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","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=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}