Author: Nadine Theiler

Meeting on 2/12: Muyi Yang

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The Meaning Group will meet online on Friday, February 12, 1-2pm. Our own Muyi Yang will present her work on Japanese moshi.

Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics

Conditional antecedents often contain elements that require the truth of the antecedent proposition to be open. One such element is Japanese moshi, which can occur in conditional antecedents and topics. I argue that in both constructions, moshi requires the context to be ‘iffy’, in the sense the antecedent proposition or the set of individuals picked out by the topic must not be settled in the context. I build on Ebert et al. (2014) and analyze moshi as an element that imposes an iffy requirement on the speech act performed by conditional antecedents and topics.

Meeting on 04/24: Tomioka 2003

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We are meeting on Friday, April 24, 12:30-1:30pm. Teru will lead the discussion about “The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications” by Satoshi Tomioka.

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.

Meeting on 04/17: Anand & Toosarvandani 2019

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We are meeting on Friday, April 17, 12:30-1:30pm. Xuetong will lead the discussion about “Now and then: Perspectives on positional variance in temporal demonstratives” by Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2019).

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.

Meeting on 04/10: Margaret Chui Yi Lee

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We will meet on Friday, April 10, 12:30-1:30pm. Our own Margaret Chui Yi Lee will present work in progress on the Cantonese NPI mat7zai6. An abstract is attached.

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Webex. To access the session, please use the link below. For the password, please refer to the Meaning Group email.

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m75338adeaa915267e1a8c957d57b3730

Meeting on 04/03: Geurts 1996

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We are meeting on Friday, April 3, 12:30-1:30pm. Ahmad will lead the discussion about “Local Satisfaction Guaranteed: A Presupposition Theory and Its Problems” by Bart Geurts (Linguistics and Philosophy, 1996).

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.