CHRIS POTTS RETURNS TO UCSC

Chris Potts graduated with the PhD from UCSC in 2003 and has since held faculty positions at UMass Amherst and at Stanford, where he is now Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of CSLI. Chris returns to Santa Cruz on Wednesday February 18th to give a colloquium in the Psychology Department. The talk will take place in Social Sciences 2, Room 121 between 12:30 and 2:00, and it will report on joint work by Chris, Dan Lassiter, Roger Levy, and Michael C. Frank. The title is Embedded implicatures as pragmatic inferences under compositional lexical uncertainty and the abstract is available here.