Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98929850267?pwd=Y3hUdi9RSG5ITG9UT0ZGRUFReU5hdz09Meeting ID: 989 2985 0267 Passcode: colloquium Abstract: Making comparisons and interpreting comparatives in child language Rutgers University – New BrunswickFor many years now, researchers in language and cognitive development have been plagued by children’s divergent non-adult-like productions of comparative constructions, and their apparent inability to properly interpret even the most basic of comparatives (although researchers have also...

Expanding our Typology of Conjoined Comparatives(joint work with Margit Bowler (University of Manchester) & Octavio León Vázquez (CIESAS))Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95703088970?pwd=TENsT2EraFZTQXFvMG9xRTBtaXpQZz09Meeting ID: 957 0308 8970Passcode: 372159Please note: non-UCLA attendees should RSVP to linguist@humnet.ucla.edu in order to be admitted to the talk. AbstractConjoined comparatives have traditionally been described as involving two conjoined clauses, one containing the target comparison and the...

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