NYU Semantics Group

Schedule

Spring 2023

• Friday, May 19. 12pm-1:30pm.
  Anastasia Tsilia (MIT) and Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)
  What the then-present puzzle tells us about perspectives in tenseabstract
  The talk will be in Room 408 on the 4th floor.
  

Archive

Spring 2023

• Tuesday, May 16. 12:30pm-2:00pm.
  Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
  Countability and measurement in comparativesabstract
  

• Tuesday, May 9. 9am-10am.
  Omar Agha (NYU)
  How to Ignore Counterexamples: Homogeneity Across Times and Worldsabstract
  

• Friday, May 5. 3:30pm-5:00pm.
  Prerna Nadathur (Ohio State University)
  Modeling progress: causal models and the imperfective paradoxabstract
  

• Friday, April 21. 3:30pm-5:00pm.
  Yael Sharvit (UCLA)
  Local presupposition accommodation and the symmetry of disjunctionabstract
  

• Friday, April 14. 10am-11:30pm.
  Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania)
  Presupposition Projection and Linear Order: Conjunction, Disjunction, and Beyondabstract
  

• Friday, February 24. 10am-11:30pm.
  Amir Anvari (MIT)
  Origins of Conservativity in Principles of Presupposition Projectionabstract
  

Fall 2022

• Friday, December 2. 3:30pm-5:00pm.
  Daniel W. Harris (Hunter College/CUNY)
  Discourse referents as object filesabstract
  

• Friday, November 18. 3:30pm-5:00pm. (Virtual)
  Jess Law (UC Santa Cruz)
  To perform or not to performabstract
  

• Friday, November 11. 10am-11:30am.
  Sam Alxatib (CUNY GC)
  Two untils in English?abstract
  

• Friday, November 4. 3:30pm-5:00pm.
  Nigel Flower (NYU)
  Witnesses and Existential Disclosureabstract
  

• Friday, October 28. 12pm-1:30pm. (Virtual)
  Friederike Moltmann (CNRS)
  On the syntax and semantics of special quantifiersabstract
  

• Friday, October 7. 3:30pm-5:00pm.
  Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)
  Mandarin le as a quantificational past-tense morphemeabstract
  

Spring 2022

• Friday, June 3. 10:15am-11:15am.
  SALT practice talks
  Linmin Zhang (NYU Shanghai): The presupposition of evenabstract
  

• Friday, May 27. 2:00pm-3:30pm, in person @ Room 103
  Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne):Discourse dynamics of weak definitesabstract
  

• Friday, May 20. 10:15am-11:45am.
  SALT practice talks
  Omar Agha (NYU) & Paloma Jeretič (ZAS Berlin): Weak necessity modals as homogeneous definite pluralsabstract
  Paloma Jeretič (ZAS Berlin): Neg-raising with think as a scaleless implicature
  

• Friday, April 15. 3:30-5:00pm.
  Chris Barker (NYU)
  Composing local contexts abstract

• Friday, Mar 25. 10:15-11:45am.
  Lisa Hofmann (UC Santa Cruz)
  Sentential Discourse-Negativity abstract

• Thursday, March 3. 10:15-11:45am.
  Room 202, 5 Washington Pl (NYU Department of Philosophy)
  Lucas Champollion (NYU)
  Negative events and truthmaker semantics abstract

• Friday, Feb 25. 10:15-11:45am.
  Mandy Simons (CMU)
  Perspectives on nominal bridging abstract

• Friday, Feb 11. 10:15-11:45am.
  Will Merrill (NYU)
  Distributional Learnability of Entailment: Preliminary Theoretical Results abstract

Fall 2021

• Friday, Dec 3. 12:00-1:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
  Universal but Unrelational abstract

• Friday, Nov 5. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Sunwoo Jeong (Seoul National University) & Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam/ILLC)
  Focused NPIs in statements and questions abstract

• Friday, October 1. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Sebastian Schuster (NYU)
  Discourse entity tracking in neural language models (and humans) abstract

• Friday, September 17. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Christopher Tancredi (Keio University)
  A One-world I-semantics for Belief Attribution abstract

• Friday, September 3. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Kyle Blumberg & Simon Goldstein (ACU)
  A Semantic Theory of Redundancy abstract

Spring 2021

• Friday, May 14. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)
  Composing Truthmakers (or: Rethinking the Logical Connectives from a N.Y. State Space of Mind)) abstract

• Friday, April 23. 10:15am-12:00pm. Zoom meeting.
  SALT practice talks
  Omar Agha: Temporal Homogeneity and Exceptions in Habituals abstract
  Anna Alsop & Lucas Champollion: A Compositional Account of Japanese ka in Inquisitive Semantics abstract
  Alex Warstadt: The Dynamics of Refusal: A revision to the QUD theory of discourse structure abstract

• Friday, April 16. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Ioana Grosu (NYU)
  Possible worlds in Children's Counterfactual Judgments abstract

• Friday, April 9. 12:00-1:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  Dorothy Ahn (Rutgers)
  The D-2 Theory: A competition-based account of definite expressions
  abstract

• Friday, March 26. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Alexandre Cremers (Vilnius University/ENS, Paris)
  Testing Bayesian models of exhaustivity abstract

• Friday, March 5. 12:00-1:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  Omar Agha (NYU)
  How to ignore counterexamples: Epistemic Sobel sequences and Sufficient Truth abstract

• Friday, February 26. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Alex Warstadt & Omar Agha (NYU)
  Testing gradient measures of relevance in discourse abstract

• Friday, February 12. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Craige Roberts (OSU/Rutgers)
  Imperatives in a dynamic pragmatics abstract

• Friday, January 29. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Adina Williams (Facebook)
  Unnatural Language Inference abstract

Fall 2020

• Friday, November 20. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Haoze Li (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
  Relative measurement and scope abstract

• Friday, November 13. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Hadil Karawani (Konstanz)
  How to derive "you should" from "I would" abstract

• Friday, October 30. 12:00-1:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
  The scope of obviation abstract

• Friday, October 9. 1:30-3:15pm. Zoom meeting.
  Patrick Elliott (MIT)
  Crossover and the dynamics of negation abstract

• Friday, September 18. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Matthew Mandelkern (NYU)
  Witnesses abstract

• Friday, September 11. 2:00-3:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  (No presentation)
  

Spring 2020

• Friday, May 22. 1:30-3:00pm. Zoom meeting.
  Virginia Dawson (UC Berkeley)
  Deriving obligatory narrow scope disjunction abstract

• Friday, May 15. 1:30-3:00pm. Zoom meeting.
  Dylan Bumford (UCLA)
  Superlative updates abstract

• Friday, May 8. 1:30-3:00pm. Zoom meeting.
  Haoze Li (NYU)
  Reference to dependencies in multiple-wh questions abstract

• Friday, May 1. 12:00-1:30pm. Zoom meeting.
  Harvey Lederman (Princeton)
  Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports abstract

• Friday, Apr 17. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Masha Esipova (Princeton)
  On iconicity, at-issueness, and composition in pictures abstract

• Friday, Apr 10. 10:15-11:45am. Zoom meeting.
  Paper discussion: Scope inversion and priming handout
  Chemla & Bott (2015) and Feiman, Maldonaldo & Snedeker (2020)
  

• Friday, Mar 6. 1:30-3:00pm. Room 104.
  Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz)
  Canonical and non-canonical speech acts abstract

• Friday, Feb 14. 10:15-11:45am.
  Chris Barker (NYU)
  Rethinking scope islands abstract

• Thursday, Jan 30. 2:00-3:30pm.
  Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley)
  Uncentered attitude reports abstract

Fall 2019

• Friday, Dec 13. 10:15-11:45am.
  Lucas Champollion (NYU)
  Donkeys under Discussion abstract

• Friday, Nov 8. 10:15-11:45am.
  Paloma Jeretič (NYU)
  Strengthening and scalemate association in the modal domain abstract

• Friday, Oct 18. 10:15-11:45am.
  Nadine Theiler (UConn)
  Witness protection abstract

• Friday, Oct 11. 10:30am-1:00pm.
  Donka Farkas (UCSC/Princeton)
  Uses of cross-linguistic semantics abstract

• Thursday, Aug 29. 3:00-4:30pm.
  Alex Warstadt (NYU)
  Just: Don't ask the question abstract

Spring 2019

• Thursday, May 23. 12:00pm.
  Jacopo Romoli (Ulster)
  Homogeneity or implicature: an experimental approach abstract

• Wednesday, May 8. 3:30pm.
  Simon Charlow (Rutgers)
  Local contexts in ellipsis abstract

• Friday, May 3. 12:00pm.
  Friederike Moltmann (CNRS/NYU)
  The Core-Periphery Distinction in Syntax, Semantics, and Natural Language Ontology abstract

• Friday, April 26. 12:00pm.
  Aurore Gonzalez (Harvard)
  Question-Answer Clauses: relation to focus abstract

• Thursday, April 25. 11:00am. 4th floor lounge.
  Linmin Zhang (NYU Shanghai)
  Split semantics for non-monotonic quantifiers in than-clauses abstract

• Friday, April 19. 10:15am.
  Veneeta Dayal (Yale)
  The Fine Structure of the Interrogative Left Periphery abstract

• Friday, March 1. 10:15am.
  Sunwoo Jeong (Princeton)
  Deriving dual dimensions of bias: preposed negation questions with even-type expressions abstract

Winter 2019

• Monday, January 7. 12:00pm.
  Ciyang Qing (Stanford)
  A modular approach to focus intervention effects abstract

Fall 2018

• Friday, December 14. 10:15am.
  Haoze Li (NYU)
  A dynamic approach to short answers: A case study of Mandarin wh-conditionals abstract

• Friday, December 7. 10:15am.
  Lucas Champollion, Anna Alsop, and Ioana Grosu (NYU)
  Free choice as a rational speech act abstract

• Friday, November 30. 10:15am.
  Ekaterina Vostrikova (UMass)
  Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions Crosslinguistically abstract

• Friday, November 9. 10:15am.
  Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
  Unconditionals and free choice abstract

• Friday, September 14. 10:15am.
  Jess H.-K. Law (Rutgers)
  Binominal each measures distributivity abstract

• Friday, September 21. 12:30pm. Room 104.
  Joshua Knobe (Yale), in conjunction with Philippe Schlenker's seminar
  The Statistical, the Prescriptive, and the Undifferentiated. abstract

• Tuesday, September 25. 1:45pm. Room 104.
  Yimei Xiang (Rutgers)
  A hybrid categorial approach of question composition. abstract

• Friday, September 28. 10:15am.
  Sascha Alexeyenko (Göttingen)
  On Events, Habituals, and Generalized Quantifiers. abstract

• Friday, October 26. 1:45pm.
  Alex Warstadt (NYU)
  Just refuses to answer the QUD abstract

Summer 2018

• Tuesday, May 15. 12pm. Room 104.
  Amir Anvari (Jean-Nicod)
  Context-shift in Farsi, and the Ban Against Illeism abstract

• Tuesday, May 15. 2pm. Room 104.
  Thom van Gessel (ILLC)
  Pair-list readings in Inquisitive Semantics abstract

Spring 2018

• Monday, January 22. 12:30pm. 4th floor lounge.
  Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)
  Already, just scalarity abstract

• Friday, March 23. 10:15am.
  Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
  Confronting Existential Angst abstract

• Friday, March 23. 1:45pm.
  Paloma Jeretič (NYU)
  Structured Questions abstract

• Friday, April 13. 10:15am.
  Adina Williams (NYU)
  Representing Thematic Relations: Reconciling Neuroimaging Data with Formal Semantic Theory (Data Discussion) abstract

• Friday, April 27. 10:15am.
  Ailís Cournane (NYU)
  Possibilities & Necessities: Acquiring the force dimension of modals abstract

Fall 2017

• Monday, September 11. 6:30pm.
  at the NY Philosophy of Language Workshop
  Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
  On the source of additive presuppositions abstract

• Friday, October 6. 10:15am.
  Ellie Pavlick (Google Research)
  Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns abstract

• Friday, October 13. 10:15am.
  NELS 48 practice talks:
  WooJin Chung (NYU): Obligation as Counterfactual Reasoning: A Solution to Zvolenszky’s Puzzle abstract;
  Masha Esipova and Lucas Champollion (NYU): Focus on adjuncts: events and continuations in the semantics of only (poster) abstract

• Friday, October 20. 3:30pm.
  Timothée Bernard (Université Paris Diderot)
  A Montagovian semantics for discourse connectives abstract

• Friday, November 3. 10:15am.
  Augustina Owusu (Rutgers)
  Actuality Entailment in Akan abstract

• Friday, November 10. 10:15am.
  Sophie Moracchini (MIT)
  The morpho-semantics of degree constructions abstract

• Tuesday, November 14. 3:30pm. 4th floor lounge.
  Hadas Kotek (NYU)
  Which QuD? abstract

• Friday, December 8. 10:15am.
  Timothée Bernard (Université Paris Diderot) and Lucas Champollion (NYU)
  Negative events abstract

• Friday, December 15. 10:15am.
  Hadas Kotek (NYU)
  Some Issues with Sluicing as Anaphora to Issues abstract

Summer 2017

• Tuesday, May 16. 11am.
  Deniz Ozyildiz (UMass)
  Factivity alternations in Turkish abstract

• Tuesday, May 16. 12:45pm.
  Linmin Zhang (Concordia)
  Ambiguous than-clauses and the mention-some reading abstract

• Monday, May 22. 1:30pm.
  Halley Young (NYU)
  Formal Syntax and Semantics of Music abstract

• Tuesday, May 23. 12pm.
  Prerna Nadathur (Stanford)
  Causality, aspect, and modality in actuality inferences abstract

• Wednesday, August 30. 11am.
  Masha Esipova (NYU)
  Focus on what's not at issue: gestures, presuppositions, supplements under Contrastive Focus (SuB 22 practice talk) abstract

Spring 2017

• Friday, February 10. 10:15am.
  Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod)
  Plurality and dependency: the view from sign language abstract

• Friday, March 24. 10:15am.
  Sonia Kasyanenko (NYU)
  The Russian Comitative Construction as Relational-Noun Coordination abstract

• Friday, April 7. 12pm.
  Peter Klecha (Swarthmore)
  Double Access is Due to Imprecision abstract

• Friday, April 14. 12pm.
  Ai Taniguchi (Michigan State)
  Exclamatives in discourse abstract

• Friday, April 21. 12pm.
  Elena Musi (Columbia)
  How did you change my view? A corpus-based study of consessions' persuasive role abstract

Fall 2016

• Thursday, September 8. 3:30pm. 4th floor lounge.
  Paolo Santorio (Leeds)
  Stability: computing alternatives in conditional antecedents abstract

• Wednesday, September 14. 10:30am. 4th floor lounge. (in conjunction with Philippe Schlenker's seminar on meaning in speech, sign, and gesture)
  Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
  Interpreting Multimodal Communicative Action abstract

• Friday, September 16. 10:15am.
  WooJin Chung (NYU)
  Decomposing Permission and Obligation: Evidence from Korean abstract

• Monday, September 26. 3:30pm. (in conjunction with Philippe Schlenker's seminar on meaning in speech, sign, and gesture)
  Gabe Greenberg (UCLA)
  The Structure of Visual Content abstract

• Friday, September 30. 10:15am.
  Dipanjan Das (Google)
  Two Statistical Case Studies in Semantic Inference abstract

• Friday, October 7. 11am.
  Masha Esipova (NYU)
  Contrast and distributivity in the semantics of alternation (NELS practice talk) abstract

• Wednesday, October 12. 10am. 4th floor lounge. (in conjunction with Philippe Schlenker's seminar on meaning in speech, sign, and gesture)
  Natasha Abner (Montclair)
  Language Emergence and the Gesture-(Sign) Language Continuum abstract

• Thursday, October 20. 12:30pm. 4th floor lounge.
  Koen Roelandt (CRISSP/KU Leuven)
  The Internal Logic of Adjectival Lexical Fields abstract

• Friday, October 21. 10:15am.
  Sam Al Khatib (CUNY GC) and Yael Sharvit (UCLA)
  A new puzzle about ellipsis: evidence from tense embedding abstract

• Friday, November 4. 10:15am.
  Diti Bhadra (Rutgers)
  Evidentials in Biased Questions abstract

• Friday, November 4.
  Simon Charlow (Rutgers)
  Alternatives, and alternative semantics abstract slides

• Monday, November 7. 3:30pm.
  Curt Anderson (Düsseldorf)
  Non-canonical uses of some abstract

• Friday, November 18. 10:15am.
  Kata Wohlmuth (Pompeu Fabra)
  The collective-distributive ambiguity — a view from the corpus abstract

• Friday, December 9. 10:15am.
  Daniel Hoek (NYU Philosophy)
  Conversational Exculpature and Loose Talk abstract

• Friday, December 16. 10:15am.
  Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers)
  Local and Long-distance abstract

Summer 2016

• Wednesday, June 29. 11am.
  Barry Schein (USC)
  Overview of the forthcoming book 'And': Conjunction Reduction Redux prospectus

• Wednesday, July 6. 11am.
  Barry Schein (USC)
  DP and PredP coordination (chapters 2–7 of the forthcoming book 'And': Conjunction Reduction Redux prospectus)

• Thursday, July 7. 4pm.
  Yoad Winter (Utrecht)
  Lexical reciprocity, logical symmetry, and protopredicates abstract

• Wednesday, August 24. 3:30pm.
  Haoze Li (NYU)
  Event-related relative measurement abstract
  Linmin Zhang (NYU)
  Modified numerals revisited: the cases of fewer than 4 and between 4 and 8 abstract

Spring 2016

• Friday, February 5. 10:15am.
  Hannah Rohde (Edinburgh)
  The context of alternatives abstract

• Friday, February 12. 1:30pm. Room 104.
  Dylan Bumford (NYU)
  Split-scope definites: How 'the' can mean two things at once abstract

• Friday, April 15. 10:15am.
  Thony Gillies (Rutgers)
  A problem about preference abstract

• Monday, May 2. 3:30pm. (in conjunction with Chris Barker's Semantics II)
  Daniel Büring (Vienna)
  Unalternative Semantics abstract

• Wednesday, May 4. 2pm.
  Chris Cummins (Edinburgh)
  Being rational with expressions of number abstract

• Friday, May 6. 10:15am.
  Lucas Champollion (NYU)
  Homogeneity in donkey sentences abstract

Fall 2015

• Friday, September 18. 10:15am.
  Haoze Li (NYU) and Jess Law (Rutgers).
  Alternatives in different dimensions: A case study of focus intervention abstract slides

• Friday, September 25. 10:15am.
  Rob Pasternak (Stony Brook).
  Gradable modality: Putting degrees in the ordering source abstract

• Friday, October 2. 10:15am.
  Itamar Kastner (NYU).
  Reciprocals reciprocalize themselves but reflexives reflexivize each other abstract

• Friday, October 9. 2:00pm.
  Simon Charlow (Rutgers).
  Monadic dynamic semantics for anaphora abstract

• Friday, October 23. 10:15am.
  Lelia Glass (Stanford).
  A foray into the lexical semantics of distributivity abstract handout

• Tuesday, October 27. 1-3pm. Room 205.
  Daisuke Bekki and Ribeka Tanaka (Ochanomizu)

• Friday, October 30. 10:15am. Room 104.
  Yael Sharvit (UCLA).
  Comparing theories of Sequence of Tense abstract

• Friday, November 20. 10:15am.
  Una Stojnic (Rutgers)
  Modality, Coherence and Logic abstract

• Thursday, December 3. 11:00am.
  Linmin Zhang (NYU)
  Comparatives revisited: Downward-entailing differentials do not threaten encapsulation theories abstract
  Jeff Lin (NYU)
  An Inquisitive Semantics Analysis for Chinese Polar Question Particle abstract

Spring 2015

• Friday, February 6. 3:30pm, Room 104.
  Jeremy Kuhn (NYU).
  Meaning in space: singulars, plurals, and functions in American Sign Language abstract

• Friday, March 27. 10:15am, Room 103.
  Tim Sundell (Kentucky) and David Plunkett (Dartmouth).
  Metalinguistic Negotiation abstract

• Tuesday, April 28. 3:30pm, Room 104 (in conjunction with Anna Szabolcsi's seminar on questions).
  Maria Aloni (ILLC).
  Introduction to conceptual covers, puzzles of belief attribution

• Wednesday, April 29. 1:30pm
  Linmin Zhang (NYU). abstract

• Tuesday, May 5. 3:30pm, Room 104 (in conjunction Anna Szabolcsi's seminar on questions).
  Maria Aloni (ILLC).
  Concealed questions under conceptual covers

• Wednesday, May 6. 1:30pm.
  Alexandre Cremers (ENS).
  Plurality effects with embedded questions and exhaustive readings abstract

• Tuesday, May 12. 3:30pm, Room 104 (in conjunction Anna Szabolcsi's seminar on questions).
  Maria Aloni (ILLC).
  Epistemic indefinites and methods of identification

• Friday, May 15. 10:15am.
  Masha Esipova (NYU).
  Coordinate distributivity in Russian and other languages abstract

• Thursday, May 21.
  Workshop: The Music/Language Connection website

• Wednesday, May 27.
  Workshop: Sign Language Meaning and Cognition website

• Friday, June 26. 11am.
  Jeremy Kuhn (NYU).
  Dependent indefinites in dynamic plural logic abstract

Fall 2014

• Friday, September 26. 10:15am.
  Jeff Lin (NYU).
  An Inquisitive Semantics Treatment of Question Particles abstract

• Monday, September 29 (in conjunction with Philippe Schlenker's seminar on cross-modal semantics). 4:45pm.
  Kathryn Davidson (Yale).
  Role shift, iconicity, and quotation abstract

• Friday, October 10. 10:15am.
  Linmin Zhang (NYU).
  Decomposing English 'and' and 'or'

• Friday, October 17. 10:15am.
  Joshua Knobe (Yale).
  The Psychological Representation of Modality abstract

• Friday, October 24. 10:15am.
  Marta Castella (Utrecht).
  Bare Predicates and Extrinsic Properties abstract

Spring 2014

• Friday, January 31. 12pm, Room 103 (at the Syntax Brown Bag).
  Heather Burnett (Montréal).
  Diachronic Investigations into Compositional Semantics: The Rise and Fall of Resultative Secondary Predication Constructions in the History of French abstract

• Friday, February 7. 3pm, Room 104.
  Simon Charlow (NYU).
  What's exceptional about indefiniteness abstract

• Friday, March 7. 11am (in conjunction with NYU's Open House).
  Dylan Bumford (NYU).
  Universal quantification as iterated conjunction abstract

• Friday, March 28. 10:15am.
  Manuel Križ (Vienna).
  Musings on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality abstract handout

• Friday, April 4. 10:15am.
  Orin Percus (Nantes).
  Unpronounced indexicality abstract

• Friday, May 9. 10:15am.
  Eva Poortman (Utrecht).
  Typicality Effects and Plural Predication abstract

• Friday, May 16. 10:15am.
  Sam Alxatib (CUNY).
  Only and association with negative antonyms abstract

• Friday, May 23. 10:15am.
  Philippe Schlenker (NYU, CNRS).
  Super Monsters: Role Shift and Context Shift Revisited abstract
  paper I paper II

Fall 2013

• Friday, October 18. 10:15am, Room 103. Jay Atlas (Pomona).
  'Few', 'A Few', and 'Only' Noun Phrases, Non-Monotonic Quantifiers, and Negative Polarity Items excerpt handout manuscript

• Friday, October 25. 10:15am. Salvador Mascarenhas (NYU).
  Interpreting the conjunction fallacy abstract

• Friday, December 6. 10:15am, Room 103. Kristina Liefke (LMU).
  A Single-Type Semantics for Natural Language abstract slides

• Thursday, December 13. 10:15am. Thomas Icard (CMU).
  Determining What Follows From What: Two Case Studies abstract

Spring 2013

• Friday, February 8. 1pm. Igor Yanovich (MIT).
  The secret history of 'must' abstract

• Friday, February 22. 10:45am. Linmin Zhang (NYU).
  A rate analysis of the binominal 'each' abstract

• Friday, March 8. 10:45am. Simon Charlow (NYU).
  Ellipsis really is binding abstract

• Friday, March 15. 10:45am. Jeremy Kuhn (NYU).
  ASL loci: Variables or features? abstract

• Friday, March 29. 10:45am. David Erschler (Tübingen).
  Deriving clause-internal left periphery abstract

• Friday, April 19. 10:45am. Dylan Bumford (NYU).
  Quantifier-Internal Anaphora and Generalized Association with Distributivity

• Tuesday, May 7. 1:45pm, Room 104 (in conjunction with Chris Barker's seminar on adjectives). Timothy Leffel (NYU).

• Friday, May 17. 10:45am. Lucas Champollion (NYU).
  Quantification and negation in event semantics abstract

• Friday, May 24. 2pm, Room 103. David Beaver (UT Austin).

Fall 2012

• Friday, October 5. 11am. Timothy Leffel (NYU), collab. with Radek Šimík and Marta Wierzba (Potsdam).
  Information structure and pronominal morphology in Basa'a (NELS prep)

• Friday, October 12. 11am. Hanna de Vries (Utrecht).
  Sums, higher-order entities, and two kinds of distributivity

• Thursday, October 18. 11am, Room 103. Hazel Pearson (ZAS Berlin).
  Logophoric pronouns are not obligatorily de se: evidence from Ewe

• Friday, October 26. 11am. Dag Westerståhl (Stockholm), collab. with Stanley Peters (Stanford).
  On the semantics of possessives

• Tuesday, November 27. 2:30pm. Salvador Mascarenhas (NYU).

• Friday, November 30. 1pm. Allyson Ettinger (NYU) and Sophia Malamud (Brandeis).
  Mandarin utterance-final particle ba and conversational goals

• Friday, December 14. 11am. Ivano Ciardelli (Amsterdam/ILLC).
  An inquisitive perspective on meaning abstract