WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
There will be a colloquium by our own Jakub Dotlačil this Friday, October 5th, at 4:00 pm, in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. Note the unusual location! The title of his talk is “Distributivity: Its Sources and Incremental Interpretation”, and you can find the abstract here
There will be a colloquium by Karen Jesney (University of Southern California) this Friday, December 2nd, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of her talk is “The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”, and you can find the abstract here.
There will be a colloquium by Larry Horn (Yale University) this Friday, November 18th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”, and you can find the abstract here.
Horn will also lead a discussion on Thursday from 5 to 6:30 in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), based on Giannakidou’s recent paper on negative polarity item licensing, available here.
There will be a colloquium by Hagit Borer (University of Southern California) this Friday, November 4th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “In the Event of a Nominal”, and you can find the abstract here.
This Wednesday (October 26) at 5 pm, Anie Thompson will present recent work on reference to adverbials in English at the Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle. The title of the talk is “Argumental Reference to Adverbial Restrictors.” More information, including an abstract, can be found here.
This Wednesday (October 12) at 5 pm Boris Harizanov will present his recent work on clitic doubling at the Stanford Syntax and Morphology Circle. The title of his talk is “Clitic Doubling as Movement: An analysis of object clitics in Bulgarian”, and more information (including an abstract) can be found here.
Our own Pranav Anand will deliver the first colloquium talk of the year this Friday, September 30, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of Pranav’s talk is “Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature”, and you can find the abstract here.