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Linguistics Department
Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs), from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily […]
Jean Fox Tree: "Spontaneous Communication"
Spontaneous communication, both verbal and written, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas, ums and uhs, words like you know and like, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings, such as facial […]
Linguistics Research Colloquia: Valentine Hacquard
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine […]
Valentine Hacquard: "Bootstrapping into Attitudes"
Valentine Hacquard from the University of Maryland will be presenting this talk which explores two classic problems at the semantics-pragmatics interface from a learner's perspective. First, the meaning that speakers convey often goes beyond the literal meaning of the sentences they utter. Second, not all content encoded in utterances has equal standing: some is foregrounded, […]
Rachel Walker: "Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence"
Abstract: Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). In this talk, I examine a problematic prediction of proposals about the formal properties of surface correspondence for harmony patterns that are partially overlapping in a language. […]
Jaye Padgett: What Irish Gaelic tells us about all linguistic sound systems
A Distinguished Faculty Lecture Presented by Stevenson College,the Linguistics Department,and the Institute for Humanities Research. Irish, one of the Celtic languages, is a minority language in Ireland, with some features that are rare among the world's languages. We'll look at these striking properties of the Irish sound system. However, we'll also see ways in which […]
Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Abstract: In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse. (1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu? Evgenija […]
Linguistics@Santa Cruz: Theory & Practice
SESSION I 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Opening remarks / MC: Pranav Anand Judith Aissen: Bill Shipley: Founding linguist at UC Santa Cruz Amy Rose Deal: Possibilities in Nez Perce Maziar Toosarvandani: Creating Northern Paiute documentation for linguists and the language community Judith Aissen: Working among the Maya 12:30 – 1:00 pm Break SESSION […]
Daniel Lassiter: "Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015), but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology, AI, and philosophy; and (b) […]
CANCELLED Linguistics Research Colloquia: Keith Johnson
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine Hacquard, […]