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  • 2024 Mar 28

    Natasha Thalluri presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

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    Exploring the typology of iconic contributions

    In this talk, I present two papers that discuss the gradience in the at-issueness of iconic contributions (Schlenker 2023) and (Steinbach 2023). It has been observed that co-speech gestures are a case of the interplay between speech, which contributes at-issue content, and gesture, which contributes non-at issue content. However, in the case of co-sign gestures, it seems to be the case that iconic content is more at-issue by virtue of being in the same...

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  • 2024 Apr 04

    Viola Schmitt presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

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    Worlds are not denotations
    The main goal of this talk is negative: I will argue that possible worlds don’t have object-language representations, as (i) readings that have been argued to require such object-language representations are more plausibly derived without them (this is based on current joint work with Ido Benbaji  and Clemens Mayr) and (ii)`ontological symmetry’ (as discussed in Schlenker 2006) breaks down when considering plurality. Beyond providing evidence for the negative claim, I...

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