On Saturday, September 4, Chris Kennedy participated in a workshop in Stuttgart on Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic, which was held to honor Professor Hans Kamp on the occasion of his 70th birthday. His presentation was called “Vagueness and Imprecision: Meaning and Use”.
On Saturday, September 11, Peter Klecha presented his paper “Optional and Obligatory Modal Subordination” at Sinn und Bedeutung 15, which was held at the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany.
Suwon Yoon was successful in defending her dissertation, ‘Not in the Mood: The Semantics and Syntax of Expletive Negation’. Congratulations, Suwon! Great job!
James Kirby‘s paper “Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception” has been published online in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 127, Issue 6). Congratulations, James!
In Taipei later this month, Tommy Grano will be presenting “Explicit comparison to an implicit standard in Mandarin Chinese,” and Chris Kennedy will present “The composition of incremental change,” both at the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics.
Morgan Sonderegger and Alan Yu will present “A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation” at the 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon, in August.
Peter Klecha will present his work on “Optional and Obligatory Modal Subordination” at Sinn und Bedeutung 15 at the Department of German Studies, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany in September.
Congratulations to Yaron McNabb on the successful defense of his dissertation prospectus, “The syntax and semantics of intensifiers and other degree expressions”!