We are an informal talk series focusing on semantics and related subfields. Meetings take place at 3:30pm on Fridays, in room 103 of 10 Washington Place, unless noted otherwise. Talks are 60 minutes in length, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.
To contact the organizers or to subscribe to the NYU semantics mailing list, please email semantics-group[at]nyu.edu.
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Friday, October 6. 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
Lucas Champollion (NYU)
The Limits of Possible Worlds Semanticsabstract
Thursday, October 12. 12:30pm - 2:00pm.
Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
(Non-)specificity across languages (joint work with Marco Degano)abstract
This talk will take place in the 4th floor Syntax-Semantics lounge.
Friday, October 27. 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
Auromita Mitra (Disha) (NYU)
Uncertainty, time, and tense-aspect in indicative conditionalsabstract
Friday, November 3. 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
Recent explanations of universals of the logical vocabulary: the case for communicative efficiencyabstract
Friday, December 1. 2:00pm to 3:30pm.
Benjamin Spector (CNRS)
Reasoning with Quantifiers, Lewisian Imaging and the Confirmation Paradoxabstract
Friday, December 8. 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
TBA
Friday, May 19. 12pm-1:30pm.
Anastasia Tsilia (MIT) and Zhuoye Zhao (NYU)
What the then-present puzzle tells us about perspectives in tenseabstract
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Monday, January 7. 12:00pm.
Ciyang Qing (Stanford)
A modular approach to focus intervention effects abstract
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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