SemanticsBabble
Fall 2013
 


WHAT:
A weekly informal discussion group on theoretical and experimental aspects of semantics and related areas such as its interface with syntax, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Open to any students and faculty. Supported by a grant from the UCSD Center for Humanties.

WHEN: Friday 12-1:30 pm

WHERE: AP&M 4218

CONTACT: Ivano Caponigro, Jonathan Cohen

 
Dates
Babbling about
Material
10/4
  • Organization
  • Jonathan & Andy
    Failure-Free Extrasemantic Content
 
10/11
  • Gwen
    Modal Scale Reversal, of all things
 
10/18
  • NO MEETING (Dept. 50th Anniversary Celebration)
 
10/25
  • NO MEETING
 
11/1
  • Julia
    On Faller's paper
Faller, Evidential scalar implicatures
11/8
  • NO MEETING (Morphology conference)
 
11/15  
11/22
  • Gary
    Identifying sarcasm in tweets
Riloff at al, Sarcasm as contrast between a positive sentiment and negative situation
11/29
  • NO MEETING (Thanksgiving)
 
12/6
  • Julia
    Acqusition of evidentials
 

 

   
     

 
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(last update: 11/20/2013 )