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Past Events from September 25, 2019 – February 7, 2020 – Page 4 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association Past Events from September 25, 2019 – February 7, 2020 – Page 4 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association

ST@R Meeting: Paper discussion

In this meeting we'll discuss Richards' (2004) article The syntax of conjunct and independent orders in Wampanoag.

MathLing Spring 2019 Meeting 1: Learning substitutable languages

The Language Center 1 Spring St, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

In this meeting, we will continue the discussion on learning started last semester. The relevant reading for the meeting is Clark and Eyraud (2007) on learning substitutable languages, which can learn non-regular languages that can model some aspects of syntactic structure. All are welcome!

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”

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