SemanticsBabble
Winter 2013
 


WHAT:
A weekly informal discussion group on theoretical and experimental aspects of semantics and related areas such as its interface with syntax, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Open to any students and faculty. Supported by a grant from the UCSD Center for Humanties.

WHEN: Tuesday, 3:20-4:15 pm

WHERE: AP&M 4218

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro, Jonathan Cohen

 
Dates
Babbling about
Material
1/15
  • Organizational meeting
 
1/22
  • Liina Pylkkänen
    Building Meanings: The Computations of the Composing Brain
    (special Linguistics Dept. colloquium talk)
    4 pm, in AP&M 4301
 
1/29
  • Gwen
    Contrastive topics, Part I
Wagner, Contrastive topics decomposed, Sec. 1-2
2/5
  • Gwen
    Contrastive topics, Part II
Wagner, Contrastive topics decomposed, Sec. 3-5
2/12
  • NO MEETING
 
2/19
  • Gwen
    Focusing on Unexpected Alternatives: not Contrastive Topic anymore
 
2/26
  • Gary
    Towards an explanation of the apparent absence of "who" Free Relatives in English
 
3/5
  • NO MEETING
 
3/12
  • Patrick
    More on Backhandedness?

 

     

 
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(last update: 03/10/2013 )