The event will be held via Zoom: htt ps://ubc.zoom.us/j/69594923041?pwd=dzlsSXZlUDZPVzJ6b0R6Z2MxbWYvZz09 (Me eting ID: 695 9492 3041 | Passcode: 269834). Dr. Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) is the featured speaker for the joint UBC and SFU Linguistics NOW colloquium. She will present a talk entitled\, "Though these be excepti ons\, yet there is method in them".
Abstract: Natura l language allows us to express universal statements\, and languages also h ave means of expressing exceptions to such generalizations\, via exceptive constructions. English examples include “Everybody but Sandy laughed” and “ Everybody laughed except Sandy”. Linguistic means of expressing exclusion h ave received modest attention from philosophers of language and semanticist s\, whose focus has been primarily on English. Beyond that small body of wo rk\, little is known about exceptive constructions across the world’s langu ages: how they are built\, what their distribution is within and across lan guages\, and how they compare to other constructions expressing comparison or contrast. In this paper\, I present and analyze the expression of except ion in several natural languages with the overarching goal of defining the range of variation in exceptives. I address the structural contrast between free and connected exceptives\, phrasal and clausal exceptives\, and coord inated and subordinated exceptives. I conclude by a series of open question s: general issues of ellipsis\, the acquisition of exceptive constructions\ , the predictability of different types of exceptive constructions on indep endent principles\, and case marking in exceptive phrases.
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