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Events from April 21, 2023 – April 29, 2022 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association Events from April 21, 2023 – April 29, 2022 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association

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”

Colloquium: Jim Wood

18 Seminary Place, Room 108

Putting 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 108

Ungrammaticality 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 108

Witness 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

Deniz Özyıldız Seminar

18 Seminary Place, Room 108

Rethinking Questions We are actively trying to understand how to account for the distribution and interpretation of embedded questions: Why do know and wonder embed them but not (usually) think? … Read More

Deniz Özyıldız Colloquium

18 Seminary Place, Room 108

The shape, meaning, and sound of factivity In this talk grounded in Turkish data, I present empirical evidence that the factive inference must be derived and not encoded in the meaning … Read More