[PLing] Talk by Luka Crnič on October 17, 13:15 CEST

[Madeleine Butschety]

Dear colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a talk by Luka Crnič (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) as part of the Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series. His talk entitled "On the grammar of alternatives" (abstract: see below) will take place this Thursday, October 17, at 13:15 CEST at lecture room P7 at the University of Nova Gorica (Kompas building), and online. 

To attend the talk via Zoom, please use the following link: 
https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/62119721864?pwd=GtD70Ef08PD1XnuDl9Rpmj2bnNZSgu.1 

We hope to see many of you there! 

Best, 
Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language 

>>LUKA CRNIČ 
"On the grammar of alternatives" 

Disjunction sometimes gives rise to conjunctive inferences. This remarkable behavior, including its restricted distribution, has been captured on the grammatical theory of exhaustification and alternatives, on which conjunctive strengthening is modulated by what alternatives grammar generates for disjunctive sentences. We examine a series of predictions of the theory based on one aspect of the grammar of disjunction – its ability to undergo scope shift in some cases in which conjunction cannot. Since in these cases structures in which disjunction has undergone scope shift lack parallel conjunctive alternatives, this may enfranchise exhaustification to generate conjunctive inferences for them. We show that this indeed occurs, expanding on earlier observations of Santorio 2018, 2020 and Bar-Lev and Fox 2020. Analogous patterns are predicted for the universal strengthening of indefinites, including of NPI indefinites, and they are shown to obtain as well. 

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