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 -February-2020-MLC-Meaning-Language-and-Cognition-
 seminar-Jos-Tellings
DTSTAMP:20200213T145059
SUMMARY:MLC (Meaning, Language and Cognition) semi
 nar, Jos Tellings
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Jos Tellings
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200221T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200221T173000
LOCATION:ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107
 , Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:The ILLC has a new lecture series, the
  Meaning, Language and Cognition (MLC) seminar, pr
 esenting research relevant to the Logic and Langua
 ge group. The first speaker of the MLC seminar wil
 l be Jos Tellings (Utrecht), discussing when 'if' 
 or 'when' are specifying modals.  Abstract. In thi
 s talk I analyze a construction in which specifica
 tional 'namely' takes a modal expression as antece
 dent, and an if- or when-clause as argument (examp
 le: "Working as a filmmaker can be taxing, namely 
 if you're required to get sleek product shots"). S
 uch cases do not satisfy previously claimed genera
 lizations about the behavior of 'namely' in Anderb
 ois & Jacobson (2018) and Onea (2016). Moreover, t
 hey show that modal expressions can raise an impli
 cit question that gets answered by an if/when-clau
 se. Not all types of modals allow this – I argue i
 t is restricted to Portner's (2009) category of "q
 uantificational modals". This work gives insights 
 into the inquisitive character of modal operators:
  following Portner's (2009) proposal for quantific
 ational modals, we find a difference in inquisitiv
 eness between quantifying over situations and quan
 tifying over worlds.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>The ILLC has a
  new lecture series, the <a href="http://projects.
 illc.uva.nl/LoLa/MLC-Seminar/" target="_blank">Mea
 ning, Language and Cognition (MLC) seminar</a>, pr
 esenting research relevant to the Logic and Langua
 ge group. The first speaker of the MLC seminar wil
 l be <a href="https://www.jostellings.com" target=
 "_blank">Jos Tellings (Utrecht)</a>, discussing wh
 en 'if' or 'when' are specifying modals.</p>\n\n  
 <p><strong>Abstract</strong>. In this talk I analy
 ze a construction in which specificational 'namely
 ' takes a modal expression as antecedent, and an i
 f- or when-clause as argument (example: &quot;Work
 ing as a filmmaker can be taxing, namely if you're
  required to get sleek product shots&quot;). Such 
 cases do not satisfy previously claimed generaliza
 tions about the behavior of 'namely' in Anderbois 
 &amp; Jacobson (2018) and Onea (2016). Moreover, t
 hey show that modal expressions can raise an impli
 cit question that gets answered by an if/when-clau
 se. Not all types of modals allow this – I argue i
 t is restricted to Portner's (2009) category of &q
 uot;quantificational modals&quot;. This work gives
  insights into the inquisitive character of modal 
 operators: following Portner's (2009) proposal for
  quantificational modals, we find a difference in 
 inquisitiveness between quantifying over situation
 s and quantifying over worlds.</p>\n
URL:http://projects.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/MLC-Seminar/e
 vent/35141/When-if-or-when-are-specifying-modals
CONTACT:Dean McHugh at d.m.mchugh at uva.nl
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