BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2020/newsitem/11618/25 -February-2020-EXPRESS-seminar-Manfred-Krifka DTSTAMP:20200217T142238 SUMMARY:EXPRESS seminar, Manfred Krifka ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Manfred Krifka DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200225T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200225T173000 LOCATION:ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107 , Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:It is commonly assumed that assertions can be weakened or strengthened. In this talk I w ill identify two linguistic strategies that lead t o the impression of changing assertoric strength a nd that are arguably embodied in the structure of assertive clauses. I will argue for a specific syn tactic implementation, postulating a “Commitment P hrase” that takes a “Judgement Phrase” as a comple ment, which can house different linguistic modifie rs or head features. I will show that a semantic i nterpretation format in which judgement and commit ment operators are just treated as non-at-issue me anings on a separate level of semantic interpretat ion is not sufficient and argue for a theory in wh ich those operators are conceived as means to put the core proposition into the common ground. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
It is commonly assumed that assertions can be weakened or streng thened. In this talk I will identify two linguisti c strategies that lead to the impression of changi ng assertoric strength and that are arguably embod ied in the structure of assertive clauses. I will argue for a specific syntactic implementation, pos tulating a “Commitment Phrase” that takes a “Judge ment Phrase” as a complement, which can house diff erent linguistic modifiers or head features. I wil l show that a semantic interpretation format in wh ich judgement and commitment operators are just tr eated as non-at-issue meanings on a separate level of semantic interpretation is not sufficient and argue for a theory in which those operators are co nceived as means to put the core proposition into the common ground.
URL:https://inferentialexpressivism.com/seminar/25 -february2020-manfred-krifka/ CONTACT:Leila Bussiere at bussiere at sequitur.eu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR