BRASOVEANU IN AMSTERDAM AND IN PRINT

Also in December Adrian Brasoveanu traveled to Amsterdam for the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium held at the University of Amsterdam on December 19th-20th. Adrian gave an invited talk reporting joint work with LRC visitor Jakub Dotlacil. Adrian and Jakub’s paper What a Rational Interpreter Would Do: Building, Ranking, and Updating Quantifier Scope Representations in Discourse is available here. The talk was part of the workshop on Quantitative Methods in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics, at which alumna Louise McNally also presented joint work with Scott Grimm in a paper entitled No ordered arguments needed for nouns. Matthijs Westera, another former LRC visitor, presented Attention, I’m violating a maxim! A unifying account of the final rise at the 17th SemDial workshop which was held this year in conjunction with the Amsterdam Colloquium. Matthijs’ paper is available here.

December also saw the publication of two papers by Adrian. He and Anna Szabolcsi coauthored the paper Presuppositional Too, Postsuppositional Too which appeared in a volume in honor of Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof, and Frank Veltman. The volume is available here. Floris Roelofsen, another repeat LRC visitor, is one of the editors of the Festschrift. Also in December, a paper (At-issue Proposals and Appositive Impositions in Discourse) co-authored by Adrian and alumni Scott Anderbois and Robert Henderson appeared online in the Journal of Semantics.