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[Victor Pan victorjunpan@yahoo.fr [parislinguists]]

Chers collègues, 


Rappel :
Trois conférences du
Prof. Haihua Pan (City University of Hong Kong), professeur
invité de l’UFR Linguistique, LLF-UMR 7110 CNRS & Université Paris Diderot-
Paris 7
 
Attention : il y a un changement pour la troisième conférence !
 
 
Cordialement! 

Victor Pan



 
Séance 1: A
Unified Analysis of Chinese Passives Including Retained Objects
 
 
Séance 2: On the semantics of dou and other
universal quantifiers in Chinese
Jeudi 12 juin 2014, 15h-17h,
Bâtiment Halle aux Farines, 506B (Hall B)
 									Abstract
This talk explores the semantics of
Mandarin dou, arguing that its different uses can be unified under
the notion of universal quantification. Also, the behaviors of other universal
quantificational expressions in Mandarin are discussed based on the analysis
of dou. There is abundant research on the semantics of dou in
the literature, where it is treated as a sum operator over events, a marker of
anti-expectation, a maximality operator, a distributive operator or a marker of
high degrees/large amounts. We argue that the aforementioned analyses uncover
either a facet or a variant of universal quantification. The broad notion of
universal quantification can inter-connect these analyses and explain the
diverse uses of dou in a more unified way. We will show that
the analysis of dou as a sum operator over events is by nature
not at odds with the treatment of dou as a universal
quantifier. Due to its universal force, dou can relate the VP
denotation to each member of a plurality and hence brings forth distributivity.
Although both universal quantification and a maximization operation operate on
each member of a plurality, the maximality approach to dou is
inadequate since maximization over the nominal domain cannot endow the relevant
sentences with a distributive interpretation and fails to account for the focus
sensitivity of dou. Furthermore, a dou-sentence can
convey unexpectedness and exhaustivity. In such cases, the contribution
of dou is still the universal force and the different effects
are attributed to the variance in the quantificational mapping of dou .
 
 
 

Séance 3: Relativized Minimality and the Licensing
Conditions of Chinese Possessive Topicalization
Jeudi 19 juin 2014, 15h-17h,
Bâtiment Halle aux Farines, 506B (Hall B)
 
Abstract:
The possessor of a possessive construction in
Mandarin can be split out of its possessee and serves as the topic of a
sentence, but not all possessive constructions can be topicalized this way. By
examining this phenomenon with the existing theories on topicalization, it is
found that syntactic treatments that derive the topic of possessor via
movements are challenged systematically by many counterexamples. Semantic and
pragmatic factors play an important role in the licensing of possessive topics.
To account for the derivation of possessive topicalization, a possessive topic
licensing condition is proposed which consists of the ‘semantic intersection’
condition’ as the necessary condition and a ‘most plausible item condition’ as
the sufficient condition, which could be considered as extending minimality to
semantics and pragmatics.
Keywords：possessive construction, relativized minimality
topicalization, semantic licensing condition
 
 
 
Les trois conférences seront données en anglais.
Accès : métro 14/bus 62 : Bibliothèque
F.M.
        
   ou Tramway 3 : Avenue de France
 
           
Université Paris Diderot- paris 7,
           
Bâtiment Halle aux Farines,
            2
rue Marguerite Duras 75013 Paris
       
      
 
 Venez nombreux!
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