check
Colloquium - Moshe Bar-Lev (Hebrew University) | החוג לבלשנות

Colloquium - Moshe Bar-Lev (Hebrew University)

תאריך: 
ג', 06/06/201714:30-16:00
מיקום: 
LLCC seminar room

Title: Universal Free Choice and Innocent Inclusion (joint work with Danny Fox)


Abstract: The goal of this talk is to provide a global account of universal Free Choice (FC) inferences (argued to be needed in Chemla 2009). We propose a stronger exhaustivity operator than proposed in Fox (2007), one that doesn’t only negate all Innocently Excludable (IE) alternatives but also asserts all “Innocently Includable” (II) ones, and subsequently can derive universal FC inferences globally. We further show that Innocent Inclusion is independently motivated by considerations that come from the semantics of only (data from Alxatib 2014), as well as the FC inferences of allowed... at most (Buccola and Haida 2016). Finally, the distinction between Innocently Excludable and Innocently Includable alternatives allows us to capture differences between FC inferences and other scalar implicatures