SemanticsBabble
Fall 2011
 


WHAT:
An informal discussion group for semantics and semantics-related topics open to students and faculty (no previous knowledge of semantics is required).

WHEN: Wednesday, 10-11:30 am

WHERE: AP&M 4301

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro
 
Babbling about
Material
9/28
  • Organization meeting
  

10/5

  • Gwen (and everybody else)
    Karttunen on presupposition projection
10/12
  • Gwen
    Pronouns, Prosody (and Predictability?): Intonational biases in pronoun reference assignment
 
10/19
  • Kate
    The Nature of the Semantic Scale: Evidence from Sign Language Research
  
10/26
  • Jonathan and Ivano
    Semantic content and collection
  
11/2 OPEN  
11/9
  • Gwen
    Double and triple interjectives: "Yeah, no," "No, yeah," "Yeah, no, yeah" and "No, yeah, no"
11/16
  • Simone
    Challenging the claim of a global asymmetry between negative and positive sentences
 

11/23

 NO MEETING  

11/30
  • Jasmeen
    On synonymy
     
 
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(last update: 11/23/2011 )