Output-driven Phonology (mini-course series II)
18 Seminary Place, Room 108Colloquium: Gillian Ramchand
Verbal Symbols and Generalized Demonstrations Gillian Ramchand Abstract: In this talk I develop a new theory of the ingredients of semantic composition for the verb phrase, building on recent … Read More
Colloquium: Stefan Keine
Online; Please contact the organizers for a linkCrossover asymmetries Stefan Keine (joint work w/ Rajesh Bhatt) Abstract: We investigate and analyze a crossover asymmetry in Hindi scrambling: such scrambling is not subject to (secondary) weak crossover but … Read More
Colloquium: Janet Pierrehumbert
Online; Please contact the organizers for a linkCapturing semantic and social factors in morphological derivation. Janet B. Pierrehumbert (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) Abstract In morphology, the factors predicting the productivity of inflectional patterns have been … Read More
Edward Flemming Colloquium
Online; Please contact the organizers for a linkA Generative Phonetic Analysis of the timing of L- Phrase Accents in English Edward Flemming (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT) Abstract: The narrow goal of this research is to … Read More
Deconstructing Relativization — the case of Georgian `rom’ relatives
Online; Please contact the organizers for a link(joint work with Léa Nash, Paris 8/CNRS) The typological literature on relativization talks about correlatives, externally headed relatives and internally headed relatives as distinct relativization strategies. We discuss the case of Georgian, … Read More
Rising declaratives and the semantics-pragmatics interface
Online; Please contact the organizers for a linkRising declaratives provide a challenging test case for theories of the semantics-pragmatics interface that aim to explain why the main clause types are canonically linked to certain discourse functions. For … Read More
Danny Fox Colloquium
Online; Please contact the organizers for a linkTrivalent Strong Exhaustivity – towards a uniform semantics for question embedding Danny Fox, MIT Abstract In this talk I will go over well-known arguments that there are three different interpretive schemas … Read More