SemanticsBabble
Winter 2011
 


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, 12-1 pm

WHERE: AP&M 4452 (the classroom all the way to the end of the long hall on the 4th floor of AP&M)

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro

 
Babbling about
Material
1/12
  • Organization meeting
 

1/19

  • Simone
    QUDs and processing negation
1/26
CANCELLED
  • Dave H.
    Why to studying temporal clauses and how

 
2/2
  • Kate
    How exhaustive and evasive implicatures are similar to scalar implicatures, and how we can compare them using experimental results from adults and children
 
2/9
  • Jonathan
    Color predicates and context-dependence
2/14
Monday
2-3:30 pm

AP&M 4301 
  • Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Licensing empty arguments in sign languages: the view from Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
    (Linguistics Colloquium talk)
 
2/16
  • Gwen
    Shifted Indexicals, Binding and Missing Readings in Dream Reports and Counterfactual Conditionals
2/23
  • Alan Bale (Concordia University, Montreal)
    In Search of the Mental Source of Vagueness
    [abstract]
 
3/2
  • Floris Roelofsen (Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam)
    Minicourse on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics
    Lecture 1:
    Inquisitive semantics and pragmatics: information, issues, and attention (website)
 

3/3
Thursday
4-6 pm

AP&M 4301

  • Floris Roelofsen (Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam)
    Minicourse on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics
    Lecture 2 :
    Prosody, syntax, and semantics of disjunctive questions (website)
 

3/4
Friday
9-10:30
AP&M 4301

  • Floris Roelofsen (Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam)
    Minicourse on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics
    Lecture 3 :
    Attentive might (website)
 
3/9
  • Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Reports and quotes in sign languages and the issue of indexical reference


 
     
     

 
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