Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | IT Constructions: focus and exhaustivity in clefts and exclusives |
| Conférencier | David Beaver (University of Texas at Austin) |
| Date | jeudi 18 décembre 2014 changement de jour |
| Heure | 14h15 changement d'horaire |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) |
| Description |
IT Constructions: focus and exhaustivity in clefts and exclusives
David Beaver - University of Texas at Austin -
(Joint work with Elizabeth Coppock, Emilie Destruel, Dylan Bumford, Edgar Onea and Leah Velleman)
I will present an analysis of the semantics and discourse function of a large range of presuppositional constructions that I refer to as Inquiry Terminating (IT) constructions. In English, these include it-clefts and exclusives such as only, just, and mere(ly). Cross-linguistically, these constructions are commonly realized with marked prosody or non-canonical syntax. Using experimental data from English, Hungarian, French, and German, as well as corpus and constructed data, I argue for a model which connects both the semantic and information structural facets of these constructions to their underlying discourse function.
Selected References:
Beaver, David & Brady Clark (2008). Sense and sensitivity: How focus deter-
mines meaning. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Büring, Daniel, and Kriz, Manuel. "It's That and That's It! - Exhaustivity and Homogeneity Presuppositions in Clefts (And Definites)". `Semantics & Pragmatics', Vol 6, Number 6, 1-29.
Elizabeth Coppock, David Beaver, 2013. Principles of the exclusive muddle. Journal of Semantics.
Daniel Velleman, David Beaver, Emilie Destruel, Dylan Bumford, and Edgar Onea, 2013. It-clefts are IT (inquiry terminating) constructions. Proceedings of SALT, 2013.
Horn, Larry (1981). “Exhaustiveness and the semantics of clefts”.
In Proceedings of NELS 11, V.
Burke and J. Pustejovsky (eds), pp. 125-142. Amherst: GLSA.
Onea, Edgar & David Beaver (2009). Hungarian Focus is not Exhausted.
In Proceedings of SALT 19.
Roberts, Craige. 1996. Information structure in discourse: Towards an
integrated formal theory of pragmatics. In Jae-Hak Yoon & Andreas
Kathol (eds.), OSU working papers in linguistics 49: Papers in
semantics, Columbus: The Ohio State University.
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