conf érence Orin Percus le 30 novembre àParis

[AROUI Jean-Louis]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son 
séminaire (http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article667),

le lundi 30 novembre 2009
10h00-12h00,
C.N.R.S., 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris (métros : Guy Moquet ou Brochant, ligne 
13),  salle 159

à une conférence de Orin Percus (Université de Nantes)

intitulée

« Antipresuppositions revisited »

Résumé :
Some syntactic structures come with an interesting condition on their use: 
they require that a certain proposition p _not_ be taken for granted. In 
other words, they “antipresuppose” p.  This talk updates a paper from 2006 
concerned with the question of how “antipresuppositions” are derived.  The 
earlier paper explored an approach due to Sauerland and Schlenker, on which 
antipresuppositions do not arise compositionally but rather result from a 
blocking effect: on this approach, a maxim, “Maximize Presupposition," 
dictates that the syntactic structures in question are rendered unuseable 
when alternative structures with stronger presuppositions would be 
felicitous.  In the past few years, a variety of work has appeared on this 
topic, which essentially accepts that antipresuppositions result from a 
blocking effect but departs from the idea that a specific “Maximize 
Presupposition” maxim is needed to account for the blocking.  This talk 
follows the same line of thought.  It reviews the arguments that 
antipresuppositions result from a blocking effect, and, like much recent 
work, takes the position that the blocking is due to a more general principle 
governing the use of structures with scalar items.  It suggests, though, that 
the principle is one that has not been discussed in the literature.

-- 
Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique77
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