Uli Sauerland will give a talk entitled "Phi-Features: The Presuppositional Approach" at 4PM in Dickinson 206.
I argue that Phi-Features (Person, Number, and Gender marking) are uniformly interpreted as presuppositions. Cooper (1979, Academic Press) first proposed the presuppositional interpretation, but only for the phi-features of pronouns. I argued for the presuppositional interpretation for the phi-features of full DPs and those of unbound pronouns (Sauerland 2003, SALT; 2008, Oxford UP). Based on new evidence (von Heusinger 2007 and others), I argue that the presuppositional approach can and should be extended to all phi-features, also those on bound pronouns.
