Toosarvandani and AnderBois in Language

The final issue of Volume 90 of Language (journal of the Linguistic Society of America) landed in our mailboxes just before the end of the year. In it we find a paper by Maziar Toosarvandani and a paper by recent alumnus Scott AnderBois. Maziar’s paper is on Two types of deverbal nominalization in Northern Paiute and grows out of his long-term commitment to work on the Mono Lake variety of that language. The paper deals with the syntax and semantics of two nominalizing suffixes and with what there is to learn from them more generally about the process of nominalization, focusing especially on the surprising semantic variability shown by the Northern Paiute nominalizers (they can express both individual and event nominalizations). Scott’s paper (The semantics of sluicing: Beyond truth conditions) grows out of his 2011 dissertation research; it develops a theory of the licensing of sluicing in which both truth-conditional semantics and issues (in the sense of inquisitive semantics) play a crucial role. Scott is now Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University.