“It’s just GONE”
Steve Pinker was on the Colbert Report! Almost as great as Chomsky on Ali G.
(Thanks, Simon.)
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Entirely for your benefit
Simon: see this is almost entirely for my benefit ;-)
Hmm. Define z-love.
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Perestroika**
Recent discussion from the Semantics Reading Group: (We’re reading Kratzer’s unpublished manuscript The Event Argument.)
4000 passengers were served 1000 gin & tonics*.
Are the passengers sharing drinks in this sentence? That is, is it required that each of 4000 passengers received a drink? And now consider the following:
4000 passengers consumed 1000 gin & tonics.
And now:
1000 gin & tonics were served to 4000 passengers.
*(Tonic water and quinine therein courtesy of W.V. Quine, of course***.)
**(Title totally irrelevant.)
***(Don’t you dare believe anything Simon says about Quine.)
emma :: Feb.28.2007 :: misc, semantics :: 8 Comments »