ST@R Meeting: Paper discussion
In this meeting we'll discuss Richards' (2004) article The syntax of conjunct and independent orders in Wampanoag.
In this meeting we'll discuss Richards' (2004) article The syntax of conjunct and independent orders in Wampanoag.
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!
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
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”
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