SemanticsBabble
Winter 2017
 


WHAT:

  • A weekly informal discussion group at UC San Diego 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 2:10-3:30

WHERE: AP&M 4218 (map)

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro & Jonathan Cohen

 
Dates
Babbling about
Material
1/12
  • Organizational meeting
 
1/19
  • Dave Barner (UC San Diego, Psychology and Linguistics)
    Negation and entailment in 2-year-olds
 
1/26  OPEN  
2/2

2/9

  • Jonathan Cohen (UC San Diego, Philosophy)
    Contextualism on inter- and intra-contextual disagreement
 
2/16
  • Till Poppels (UC San Diego, Linguistics)
    Verb Phrase Ellipsis is discourse reference: novel evidence from dialogue
    [abstract]
 
2/23
  • Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego, Linguistics)
    Richard Montague and what counts as semantic data and puzzles
  • Visiting prospective students will be free to join us from 2:20 to 3 pm as part of the Linguistics Open House; therefore we meet in a larger room, AP&M 4301, the Ling Dept conference room
 
3/2  
3/9
  • Dimitris Skordos (UC San Diego, Psychology)
    Reasoning about disjunction: Why do children reject true statements?
 
3/16
  • Masoud Jasbi (Stanford, Linguistics)
    Uniqueness in Definites and Indefinites: Evidence from Persian
    [abstract]
    [Masoud will also give a presentation on his work on acquisition of disjunction at Dave Barner's lab meeting the day before, Wed March 15 at 1:30 pm, in McGill 5235A]
 
     
     

 
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(last update: 04/19/2017 )