5TH CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITIES SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE

The fifth California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop (CUSP 5) was held this past weekend at UC San Diego. The workshop featured a number of excellent talks, including two by our own Donka Farkas and Karl DeVries. Donka launched the second day of the conference with “Assertions and polar questions: Default and non-default cases” (joint work with frequent LRC visitor Floris Roelofsen), and Karl gave the penultimate talk of the conference, “Number words and aspectual modifiers.” Oliver Northrup drove and sampled every flavor of muffin at the conspicuously well-stocked snack table. The department’s legacy was also well-represented: PhD Alumnus Chris Potts (Stanford) chaired a session, and undergraduate alumna Lauren Winans (UCLA) presented on “Inquisitive and non-inquisitive disjunctions.” CUSP 6 will be closer to home, at either Berkeley or Stanford.