Who: Isa Kerem Bayirli (MIT) When: Friday, October 30, 2-3:30pm Where: 32-D461 Title: On the absence of free choice-type inferences in some Turkish constructions
I will talk about the absence of free choice-type inferences in the context of several expressions in Turkish. The complex disjunction `ya…ya…’ and complex conjunction `hem…hem…’ do not give rise to free choice-type effects (i.e. strenghtening to wide scope conjunction) in contexts in which their simple versions do. To capture these observations, we will need to revise the conditions on the distribution of the exh operator and on the proper use of these two constructions.