Augustina’s talk on Anaphoricity Marking in Akan
I revisit the interpretation of the so-called definite determiner, nò in Akan. I contend that contrary to previous analyses, nò is not a definite determiner of type <<e,t>e>. Rather, I claim it is as … Read More
Practice Talks: Meg Gotowski & Shiori Ikawa [ST@R]
Meg Gotowski. “What Quoi-sluices reveal about ellipsis and wh-clitics in French.” Shiori Ikawa. “Long-distance binding of the reflexive anaphor zibun in Japanese”
MRG: Mark Baker on the alphabet of case features
18 Seminary Place, Room 108Colloquium: Jim Wood
18 Seminary Place, Room 108Putting our heads together: Icelandic deverbal event nouns and allosemy Grimshaw (1990) showed that when an event noun is derived from a verb, it is systematically ambiguous. In the “Complex … Read More
Nadine Theiler Seminar
18 Seminary Place, Room 108Ungrammaticality from triviality: deriving selectional restrictions of attitude verbs It's commonly assumed that ungrammaticality is a syntactic notion and should receive a purely syntactic explanation. Yet there are many proposals … Read More
Nadine Theiler Colloquium
18 Seminary Place, Room 108Witness protection: A unified semantics for additive particles in assertions and questions The English additive particle also can appear in assertions and polar questions, but not in canonical wh-questions: (1) … Read More