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The Department of LinguisticsThere were three UCLA presentations at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28, held on May 18-20, 2018, at MIT. Ellipsis in tautologous conditionals (Richard Stockwell) Sloppy binding into relative…
Read MoreThe Department is advertising two 2-year teaching positions beginning Fall 2018; the deadline for applications is May 28. Click here for information about the positions and how to apply Direct…
Read MoreTwo talks from the UCLA Language Processing Lab will be presented at the 54th Chicago Linguistic Society, April 26-28, 2018. Graduate student Marju Kaps will present her MA thesis research…
Read MoreHilda Koopman and Tim Stowell will be teaching at the Linguistics Summer school in Göttingen, Germany on July 30-August 10, 2018. The title of their course is “Form-meaning mismatches in natural language.”
Read MoreUCLA also has a good showing at GLOW 41 this year. Visiting Professor Ethan Poole will be presenting a paper with Stefan Keine entitled “Reconstruction beyond English.” And alumna Laura…
Read MoreA number of UCLA faculty and students will be presenting at SALT 28 this year (congrats, everyone!): Maayan Abenina-Adar (grad student) and Yael Sharvit Dylan Bumford Ethan Poole, “Spurious NPI…
Read MoreEmeritus Edward Keenan and Kai von Fintel (MIT) have just published a paper in the Journal of Semantics, entitled ”Determiners, conservativity, witnesses”. Abstract here.
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has just published a paper, entitled “The semantics of many, much, few and little,” in the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. The goal of the paper is…
Read MoreA number of faculty members and students from the UCLA Linguistics Department presented at the Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City at the beginning of January….
Read MoreHilda Koopman is a co-author on “Cross-linguistic evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction.” (with Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski & Viola Schmitt), which will be…
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