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Babbling
about |
Material |
3/31 |
Jonathan
& Ivano
On
the collection test for covert variables
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| 4/5
(MONDAY!) |
Christine
Gunlogson (Rochester)
Questioning
tags,
abstract
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Suggested
background readings:
- Ladd
-
Reese & Asher
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4/7
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Simone
Processing
negation |
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| 4/14 |
Dave
B. & Ivano
On
the acqusition of maximality
(SALT practice)
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| 4/21 |
Dave
H. & Ivano
On
temporal 'when' clauses (SALT practice) |
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| 4/26
(MONDAY!) |
Gwen
'require"
and 'allow' as a modal scale: Experimental evidence
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| 5/5 |
Bethany
The
Acceptability of Resumptive Pronouns in English
Relative Clauses
Using an acceptability judgment task and techniques
in experimental syntax, I test the hypothesis that
resumptive pronouns are more acceptable than corresponding
gaps that create ECP-effects in English relative
clauses. |
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| 5/12 |
Jessica
Rett (UCLA)
Measure-phrase equatives and scale subjectivity
While equatives like John is taller than
Sue is are commonly considered to be ambiguous
between an `at least' and `exactly' interpretation,
equatives with measure-phrase (MP) complements like
Bobsleds travel as fast as 60mph -- in
English -- are instead ambiguous between an `at
most' and `exactly' interpretation. I'll present
an analysis of this difference that relies on a
particular semantics for MPs as well as a novel
analysis of the equative morpheme (one that is sensitive
to the direction of its scalar complements).
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| 5/19 |
Kate
Discussing
Ippolito's "Embedded Implicatures?"
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Michela
Ippolito,Embedded
Implicatures?
Remarks on the debate between globalist and localist
theories |
| 5/26 |
All
Continuing
our discussion embedded Implicatures |
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| 6/2 |
All
Continuing
our discussion embedded Implicatures with sepcial
focus on Frazier's paper |
Lyn
Frazier,
Computing Scalar Implicatures |
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