SemanticsBabble
Fall 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
  • Supported by an award from the UC San Diego Center for the Humanities

WHEN: Thursday 1:30-2:30 (can be extended up to 3 pm, if needed)

WHERE: AP&M 4218 (map)

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro & Jonathan Cohen

 
Dates
Babbling about
Material
9/29
  • Organizational meeting
 
10/6
  • Roman
    The logic in language: How "all" quantifiers are alike but "each" quantifier is different
 
10/13
  • Dimitris
    Class inclusion/quantifier spreading and non-linguistic alternatives in inference
 
10/20
  • Roman
    Beginning to babble about quantifier scope preference and distributivity
 

10/27
3:30 -5:30 pm

  • Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz)
    Tutorial on Dynamic Semantics
    [DIFFERENT TIME! We start at 3:30 pm]
11/3    
11/10
  • Laia
    Echoic contrastive conditionals in Spanish
 
11/17    
11/23 [No meeting - Thanksgiving]  
12/1
  • Eva
    Investigating the representation of and pronominal reference to entities and events
 
     
     
     

 
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(last update: 04/19/2017 )