Colloquium by Larry Horn this Friday

There will be a colloquium by Larry Horn (Yale University) this Friday, November 18th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”, and you can find the abstract here.

Horn will also lead a discussion on Thursday from 5 to 6:30 in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), based on Giannakidou’s recent paper on negative polarity item licensing, available here.