Anand at Mayfest

During May 16-17, Professor Pranav Anand traveled to the University of Maryland for Mayfest, where he spoke and met up with several BA alums. This year’s Mayfest focused on constraints and gaps in lexical meaning, and Pranav’s talk, English ‘coming-to-know’ predicates: evidence and knowledge, reported on joint work with Natasha Korotkova on the lexical structure of a rich class of semi-factives. Also presenting was Professor Aaron Steven White (BA 2009), whose talk, Inducing lexical semantic generalizations, detailed a computational model that learns distributional and inferential generalizations. In addition to White, Pranav got the chance to catch up with recent BA alums Jackson Confer and Sadie Lewis, who were finishing their Baggett Fellowships, and Sarah Lee, who is now attending the University of California, College of the Law.