Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2008
The workshop will have its last meeting of the year this
Friday (June 13) from 11:00am-1:00pm in the Landahl Center.
Ivano Caponigro (UCSD) will be presenting some of his recent
work (actually joint work with Maria Polinsky from Harvard).
The abstract is below.
Most languages (including English) distinguish between
relative clauses, embedded declarative clauses, and embedded
interrogative clauses in various syntactic ways [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2008
On May 30th from 11:00am-1:00pm in the Landahl Center, Daniel Rothschild (Columbia University) will be giving a talk. The title and abstract are below.
Making Dynamic Semantics Explanatory
Heim’s classic paper “On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions” proposed a replacement of truth-conditional semantics with a dynamic semantics that treats meanings as instructions to update the common ground. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2008
Our very own Nat Hansen will be presenting this Friday from 11:15am-1:15pm in the Landahl Center. Click on the link below to obtain a copy of the paper.
Radicalism and Rule-Following
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 1st, 2008
Peter Lasersohn’s talk on May 9 will take place from 12:30-2:30pm in the Landahl Linguistics Research Center. See below for the abstract and a copy of the paper.
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