{"id":9886,"date":"2017-05-01T06:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:57:35","slug":"mit-colloquium-55-jon-gajewski-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/01\/mit-colloquium-55-jon-gajewski-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 5\/5 - Jon Gajewski (UConn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jon-gajewski.uconn.edu\/\">Jon Gajewski<\/a> (UConn)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s not syntax, I don&#8217;t think: neg-raising and parentheticals<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Friday, May 5th, 3:30-5:00 pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong> 32-155<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEnglish allows a construction in which a sentence contains a parenthetical with a clausal gap, as in (i).  I will refer to phrases such as I think in (i) as clausal parentheticals.  Typically, clausal parentheticals cannot be negative, cf. (ii). <\/p>\n<p>    (i) There is beer in the fridge, I think.<br clear='none'\/>\n    (ii) *There is beer in the fridge, I don&#8217;t think.<\/p>\n<p>It has been noted that when the clausal parenthetical contains a neg-raising predicate, an apparent doubling of a negation in the main clause is allowed, as in (ii).<\/p>\n<p>    (ii)           There is no beer in the fridge, I (don&#8217;t) think.<\/p>\n<p>This doubling has been taken to be an argument in favor of syntactic approaches to neg-raising, as in Ross (1973) and Collins & Postal (2014). I will defend an analysis of the doubling in (ii) that is compatible with a semantic\/pragmatic approach to neg-raising, as in Horn 1989, Gajewski 2007, Romoli 2013.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Jon Gajewski (UConn) Title:\u00a0It&#8217;s not syntax, I don&#8217;t think: neg-raising and parentheticals Time: Friday, May 5th, 3:30-5:00 pm Place: 32-155 Abstract: English allows a construction in which a sentence contains a parenthetical with a clausal gap, as in (i). I will refer to phrases such as I think in (i) as clausal parentheticals. Typically, clausal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}