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SemanticsBabble

Fall2008

WHAT:
An informal discussion group for semantics and semantics-related topics open to students and faculty (no previous knowledge of semantics is required).

WHEN: Wednesday 3-4 pm

WHERE: AP&M 4218 (our usual room)

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro

	Babbling about	Material
October
10/1	organization meeting
10/7 Tuesday 10 am!	Harold Torrence (University of Kansas) The Form and Interpretation of Wh-Questions in Wolof Abstract
10/15	In preparation for Farkas's visit: discourse particals	Farkas: The Grammar of Polarity Particles in Romanian Bruce and Farkas: Context Structure for Dialogues
10/22	Simone The Use of High Negation Questions Abstract
10/29	Kate Topics and Questions Abstract
November
11/5	David Barner (UCSD psychology) Presenting his research on the acqusition of semantics and pragmatic and his lab Link to David's lab website
11/12	"or" or in preparation for Chierchia's visit	Chierchia, Fox, Spector (to appear): The Grammatical view of scalar implicatures and the relationship between semantics and pragmatics Chierchia (2006): Broaden your views: Implicatures of domain widening and the "Logicality" of language Chierchia (2004): Scalar implicatures, polarity phenomena, and the syntax/pragmatics interface Schwarz, Clifton, Frazier (2008): Strengthening 'or': Effects of Focus and Downward Entailing Contexts on Scalar Implicatures Russell (2006): Against grammatical computation of scalar implicatures
11/19	Gwen Not Every Implicature is Computed by Default Abstract
11/26	[Thanksgiving]
December
12/3	Dave

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(last update: 11/18/2008 )