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<p><div><div><br></div><div><div>Le programme "Temporalité : Typologie et Acquisition" de la Fédération "Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques" du CNRS a le plaisir d'annoncer un exposé : </div><div><br></div><div>"Generic meaning in Italian imperfectives"</div><div><br></div><div>Fabio del Prete, Institut Jean Nicod</div><div><br></div><div>Date : vendredi 19/2/10</div><div>Lieu : CNRS Pouchet (59 rue Pouchet, Paris 75017, métro Guy Môquet/Brochant, RER Porte de Clichy, bus 66) </div><div>salle 311</div><div>Heure: 10h30-12h30</div><div><br></div><div>Vous pouvez consulter la page temptypac à <a href="http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Temporalite-typologie-et-.html">http://www.umr7023.<wbr>cnrs.fr/-<wbr>Temporalite-<wbr>typologie-<wbr>et-.html</a>, l'agenda du laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage à <a href="http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique209">http://www.umr7023.<wbr>cnrs.fr/spip.<wbr>php?rubrique209</a>, ou le site web de la Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques à <a href="http://www.typologie.cnrs.fr/">http://www.typologi<wbr>e.cnrs.fr</a>. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>résumé : </div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The focus of this talk is on the emergence of generic meaning in imperfective sentences of Italian. I look at genericity as it manifest itself both in the verbal domain and in the nominal domain (generic interpretation of indefinites)<wbr>. Verbal genericity, which subsumes habituality, is exemplified by the generic interpretation of the VP in (1), while nominal genericity is exemplified by the generic interpretation of the subject NP in (2):</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(1)<span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Gianni viaggia in treno.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>‘Gianni travels by train.’</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(2)<span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Un cane è fedele al proprio padrone.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>‘A dog is faithful to its master.’</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A fact that has not received much attention thus far is the one-way dependency relation between the generic interpretation of a subject indefinite and the generic interpretation of the verb predicate. For example, (3) can be interpreted as an episodic sentence (event-in-progress)<wbr>, and on this reading its subject must receive an existential interpretation. Only if the verb predicate is generic, can the subject be generic.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(3)<span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Un italiano mangia spaghetti.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Episodic reading: ‘An Italian is eating spaghetti.’ [episodic VP<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>à</span></span><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>existential indefinite]</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Generic reading : ‘An Italian generally eats spaghetti.’ [generic indefinite<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>à</span></span><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>generic VP]</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Unattested reading: ‘* An Italian in general is eating spaghetti now.’ [* generic indefinite & episodic VP]</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On the other hand, this implicational relation is only one-way, as is apparent from the fact that (4) can be generic, without its subject indefinite being generic.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="IT">(4)<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>Un italiano che conosco mangia spaghetti.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>‘An Italian who I know eats spaghetti.’ [existential indefinite & generic VP]</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This shows that, of the two sources of genericity suggested by Krifka et al. (1995), namely the NP and the VP, the latter is more fundamental than the former in an important sense: as far as we have a generic interpretation at the VP-level, the sentence as a whole is interpreted generically (and to this effect the interpretation of the subject indefinite is not relevant), but if we want to have a generic interpretation of the subject indefinite, we are bound to the generic interpretation of the VP.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On the basis of this asymmetric dependency, I propose that the source of the generic interpretation in the nominal domain is verbal genericity.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On the basis of contrasts such as the one between (5) and (6), I further propose that verbal genericity arises when the reference time underlying the interpretation of imperfectives is an unbounded or an otherwise large interval, small intervals forcing event-in-progress readings.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="IT">(5)<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>In questo periodo, Gianni suona il piano.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="IT"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>‘Nowadays, Gianni plays piano.’</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="IT">(6)<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span>In questo istante, Gianni suona il piano.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="IT"><span> <span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>‘Right now, Gianni is playing piano.’</div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></p>
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