BARKER RETURNS TO S-CIRCLE

Chris Barker graduated with the PhD in Linguistics from UCSC in 1991, his dissertation topic being Possessive Descriptions (published by University of Chicago Press in 1995). Chris is now Professor and Chair of Linguistics at NYU. He will return to the department on Wednesday January 21st for a day-long visit, along with Dylan Bumford and they will give a joint presentation to a specially convened meeting of S-Circle at 1 pm in the Linguistics Common Room (LCR). The title of Dylan and Chris’ talk is Incremental quantification for adjectives of comparison and the abstract is available here.