Colloquium Talk – Tanya Bondarenko
Lessons about clausal embedding from long-distance wh-dependencies Abstract: In this talk I argue with the data from Georgian that syntax and semantics of long-distance wh-dependencies provide support for the view...
Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality A recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may...
Colloquium Talk – Matt Wagers
Setting healthy (mnemonic) boundaries Some 20 years ago, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative...
Colloquium Talk – Valentine Hacquard
Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals (joint work with Jingyi Chen) So-called ‘anankastic conditionals’, like (1), have vexed standard accounts of modals and conditionals, by presenting an apparent non compositionality problem....