{"id":4272,"date":"2016-09-09T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:58:30","slug":"talk-by-xprag-de-member-marie-christine-meyer-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?p=4272","title":{"rendered":"Talk by XPrag.de member Marie-Christine Meyer at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 10th, Marie-Christine Meyer from project SSI at ZAS Berlin will give a talk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/exhaustivity2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016<\/a>. The title of the talk  is &#8220;Grice and Grammar: How cooperative are weak sentences?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<br \/>\nIn this talk we are going to explore the relation between grammatical ignorance implicatures and Gricean pragmatics. We argue that the maxims of Brevity and\/or Quantity+Relation force us to assume that language, i.e, grammar, can encode not only lower-bounded meanings like &#8220;at least some&#8221;, but also upper-bounded meanings like &#8220;some but not all&#8221;. Crucially, grammar must even be able to encode the speaker&#8217;s ignorance about the upper bound if Grice&#8217;s maxims are valid at all. We arrive at the conclusion that syntactic operators like exh and K (be certain) make language highly suitable for cooperative communication in Grice&#8217;s sense &#8212; more suitable than a language without these operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 10th, Marie-Christine Meyer from project SSI at ZAS Berlin will give a talk at the MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016. The title of the talk is &#8220;Grice and Grammar: How cooperative are weak sentences?&#8221; Abstract In this talk we are going to explore the relation between grammatical ignorance implicatures and Gricean pragmatics. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?p=4272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talk by XPrag.de member Marie-Christine Meyer at MIT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}