Category: Faculty News

BRASOVEANU AND WESTERA IN SALT 24

SALT 24 (the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference) was held at NYU between May 30th and June 1st 2014. The proceedings of the conference have now been published on the e-publication platform of the Linguistic Society of America. The proceedings include a paper by former LRC visitor Matthijs Westera and Adrian Brasoveanu entitled Ignorance in Context: The Interaction of modified numerals and QUD’s.  The paper argues for a purely pragmatic account of the ignorance inferences associated with superlative modifiers such as at least but not with comparative modifiers such as more than. The full text of the paper can be downloaded here. Also in the Proceedings is a paper by recent alumnus Scott AnderBois (now Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University) entitled On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials, available here. Proceedings of SALT 1 through 23 will soon be available in the archive of the journals.linguisticsociety.org site. In the meantime, they continue to be available at eLanguage.

CHUNG IN PRINT AGAIN

Volume 35 of Dictionaries, the journal of the Dictionary Society of America, contains a short report by Sandy Chung and Elizabeth D. Rechebei on the community-based revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. The Dictionary revision began in 2009, was supported from 2009 to 2013 by NSF, and is now in the editing phase. A prepublication version of the report, Community Engagement in the Revised Chamorro-English Dictionary, can be viewed here.

Separately Sandy learned this week that her first book, Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian, has come back into print(-on-demand). More information is available here.

 

FARKAS AT CORNELL

On Thursday, November 6, Donka Farkas gave a colloquium at Cornell entitled Assertions, questions and the land in between. Donka sent WHASC the following report:

My talk reported on joint work I am doing with former LRC visitor, Floris Roelofsen. I then stayed on for the annual linguistics and philosophy workshop organized by Sarah Murray and William Starr. The theme this year was the semantics of plurals. The program of the conference featured two UCSC alums: Robert Henderson (Wayne State) was one of the presenters, and Chris Barker (NYU) was one of the commentators. It was an extremely enjoyable conference, with interesting talks and good, animated discussion. Sara and Will did a great job organizing it all seamlessly.

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