WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
There will be a colloquium by Martin Walkow this Thursday, January 31st, at 12:00 noon, in the Humanities 1 Bldg, Rm 210. PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION. The title of his talk is “(Conjunct) Agreement between Syntax and PF”, and you can find the abstract here.
Adrian Brasoveanu just visited Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, this past week to talk about their current research project on relative clauses, the different ways relative clauses can target quantifiers and the various logical frameworks (dynamic plural logic included) within which such phenomena can be accounted for. Adrian also gave a talk on “Scales of Negativity”, reporting joint work with Donka Farkas and recent department visitors Floris Roelofsen and Karen De Clercq. According to Adrian, a lot of fun was had by everyone.
Last Saturday saw the first meeting of the new Unofficial Graduate student Get-togather on Semantics and pragmatics (UGGS). The theme of the premiere meeting was modified numerals: Karl DeVries on interaction between modified numerals and aspectual modifiers, and Matthijs Westra on the pragmatics of modified numerals, based on inquisitive semantics. This week UGGS will feature Anie Thompson, who will be workshopping a set of puzzles for the missing antecedent test in ellipsis, with special attention to the differences between singulars and plurals. She will also be offering a bonus discussion of some inverse scope puzzles if participants are interested. UGGS meets Saturdays 3-5pm in the Cave.
From the organizers:
The 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society is approaching! The conference will be held on February 16-17, 2013, and features a special session on space and directionality, as well as parasessions on the languages of Southeast Asia and inferring human prehistory through linguistics. More information can be found at the conference website.
Registration is ongoing, and can be sent in beforehand or done on-site. Early registration for BLS 39 is available at a discount and must be postmarked by February 1st. If you have any questions, you can contact us at bls@berkeley.edu.
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There will be a colloquium by Michael Diercks this Thursday, January 24th, at 12:00 noon, in the Humanities 1 Bldg, Rm 210. PLEASE NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND LOCATION. The title of his talk is “The Great Escape: Raising out of finite clauses in Bantu languages”, and you can find the abstract here.
Floris Roelofsen, a frequent Linguistics Research Center visitor, will give an ad hoc semantics talk on Monday, January 28th at 2:00 pm in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), entitled “An inquisitive perspective on meaning: the case of disjunction”. This talk will serve two purposes: (i) to (re)introduce inquisitive semantics and Floris’s work to the department, and (ii) to allow him to try out his job talk for Stanford and UMass.