Category: Faculty News

BRASOVEANU AND DOTLAČIL IN PRINT

A new paper by Jakub Dotlačil and Adrian Brasoveanu has just been published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (the journal formerly known as Language and Cognitive Processes). The paper is entitled “The manner and time course of updating quantifier scope representations in discourse”, and is available here. The paper presents the results of two experiments, an eye-tracking study and a follow-up self-paced reading study, investigating the interpretation of quantifier scope in sentences with three quantifiers. The paper argues against underspecification theories of scope and supports a view of semantic processing in which the processor uses scope-disambiguating information as early as possible to (re)analyze scope representation.

UCSC AT SULA

This past weekend saw the eighth meeting of SULA (Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas), which took place at the University of British Columbia in mountainous Vancouver. Among the speakers were Maziar Toosarvandani, Amy Rose Deal, and Erik Zyman. Attendees enjoyed stimulating talks and posters on semantic and pragmatic phenomena in a wide variety of American languages, as well as the atmosphere of lively conviviality. The program is available here. Some of the talks were held at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, in a room surrounded by beautiful Pacific Northwest First Nations art.

ANAND AT OSU

Pranav Anand traveled to OSU between May 13th and 15th as an invited speaker at a workshop on Perspective and Modal Semantics. Pranav presented joint work with Valentine Hacquard of Maryland on “Attitude Reports, Discourse Reports, and Factivity”.

CHUNG TO GIVE LICKER LECTURE AT UCSC

Sandy Chung is one of the current holders of the Gary D. Licker Chair at Cowell College in UCSC. As holder of the chair, Sandy will present the Gary D. Licker Memorial Lecture on Tuesday May 13th in the Cowell Senior Common Room (please note that this a change from the venue originally announced here). The lecture is at 6pm and Sandy’s topic is Language Endangerment and Cultural Politics in the Mariana Islands.

ETI 3 in MONTREAL

ETI (Exploring the Interfaces) 3,which took place at McGill University in Montreal between May 8th and May 10th, became something of a Santa Cruz reunion. This was the last in a sequence of three workshops organized by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group, all of which were devoted to the interfaces between syntax and other aspects of linguistic ability. The theme of ETI 3 was Prosody and Constituent Structure, with a special focus on verb-initial languages. Among the invited speakers were Judith Aissen, Jim McCloskey, and Joey Sabbagh (BA 2005). Emily Manetta of the University of Vermont presented at the conference, and Ryan Bennett of Yale and Robert Henderson of Wayne State University were also in the thick of things. There’s a picture here. Ryan was himself fresh from the experience of organizing the Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America at Yale in the first week of April. The program for ETI 3 is here and all of the abstracts are available here.

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