Linguistics Graduate Students Association

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

Crossover 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

Capturing 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

A 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

(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 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

Trivalent 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

How children are and aren’t like adults when interpreting pronouns: A computational cognitive modeling investigation Lisa S. Pearl   Abstract: Interpreting pronouns in context is a complex linguistic task, especially … Read More

Revisiting nominal licensing in Zulu Claire Halpert   Abstract:  The questions of whether and how nominals are syntactically licensed in Bantu languages have been a matter of recent active debate … Read More

Building prosodic trees Kristine M. Yu Abstract: Computational perspectives from string grammars have richly informed our understanding of phonological patterns in natural language in the past decade. However, a prevailing … Read More