{"id":9952,"date":"2017-05-15T06:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2017-05-14T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:30:10","slug":"lfrg-517-hanzhi-zhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/15\/lfrg-517-hanzhi-zhu\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 5\/17 - Hanzhi Zhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/hanzhi\/\">Hanzhi Zhu<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Building expectation into an account of <i>still<\/i> and <i>already<\/i><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date and time:<\/strong> Wednesday May 17, 1-2pm<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this talk, I&#8217;ll explore properties of particles like <i>still<\/i>, <i>already<\/i>, and German <i>erst<\/i> \/ Mandarin <i>c\u00e1i<\/i> &#8216;only just, only &#8230; so far&#8217;.  In particular, I will argue for the claim that some of these particles give rise to an earlier\/later-than-expected inference (discussed in L\u00f6bner 1989, van der Auwera 1993, Michaelis 1996, inter alia).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> 1. Asha is already asleep.<br clear='none'\/>\n<i>Inference: Asha is asleep earlier than expected.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> 2. a. Bart qiutian   cai  lai.<br clear='none'\/>\nBart  autumn erst come<br clear='none'\/>\nb. Bart kommt erst im Herbst<br clear='none'\/>\nBart come erst in autumn<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8220;Bart will only just come in autumn.&#8221;<br clear='none'\/>\n<i>Inference: Bart&#8217;s coming in autumn is later than was expected.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll propose an account which directly builds this inference into their presuppositional content.  I&#8217;ll then discuss the advantages of such an account over previous proposals (Krifka 2000, Ippolito 2007), as well as the challenges that it faces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Hanzhi Zhu (MIT) Title: Building expectation into an account of still and already Date and time: Wednesday May 17, 1-2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: In this talk, I&#8217;ll explore properties of particles like still, already, and German erst \/ Mandarin c\u00e1i &#8216;only just, only &#8230; so far&#8217;. In particular, I will argue for the claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}