Rutgers Linguistics made a good showing at the 9th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, held at the University of Pennsylvania on April 15.
Prof. Kristen Syrett gave an invited talk as keynote speaker. She presented her work, “Experimental Evidence for Gradability, Context Sensitivity, and Essentialism in the Representation of Objects and Nouns”.
Chaoyi Chen, fifth year grad student, presented a talk, “Mandarin concessive scalar particle hai: Verum focus and Maximize Presupposition!”
Rutgers linguists also showcased their research at that afternoon’s poster sessions. Fourth year Indira Das presented “Bare noun definites and their non-number neutrality in Odia”; fourth year Ziling Zhu presented “*Be surprised whether: Question-to-Cleft reduction”; and third year Gérard Avelino presented “Modal event relativity extended: Evidence from Tagalog particle sana“.
Details about the 9th MACSIM can be found here.