SemanticsBabble
Spring 2016
 


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.

WHEN: Monday 4-5 pm

WHERE: AP&M 4218

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro

 
Dates
Babbling about
Material
4/4
  • Organizational meeting
 
4/11
  • Eva
    The roles of presupposition accommodation and syntax in computing adjectival scalar thresholds
 
4/18
  • Eva
    What is "it"? Disambiguating pronominal object vs. event reference
 
4/25    
5/2
  • Andy & Jonathan
  • On the Presuppositional Behavior of Coherence-Driven Pragmatic Enrichments
 
5/9
  • Gary
    How liberals and conservatives talk to (and about) each other
 
5/16
  • Qi
    Adolescent First Language Acquisition of Word Order in American Sign Language
 
5/23    
     
     

 
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