Syn/Sem Talk – Anand Abraham
2122 Campbell Hall"Sluicing as Discourse Anaphora" Sluicing is a phenomenon where a *wh*-phrase is used to stand for the meaning of a whole question. Sluicing is traditionally analyzed as a variety of ellipsis (Chung et al. 1995, Merchant 2001), but significant mismatches are possible between the antecedent of a sluice and the structure that is posited in...
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 memory. McElree (2000) and McElree, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved...
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallPhonetics Seminar – John McGahay
Campbell Hall 2122AJohn McGahay “Modeling Vowel System Typology Using Iterated Confusion Minimization”
Syn/Sem Talk – Hilda Koopman
2122 Campbell HallOblique passives, Voice, and PPs This talk builds on work with Tomoko Ishizuka "On the (non-accidental) homophony of -rare in passives and (psv-)potentials: insights from Japanese oblique passives)(2025)". I will focus on a number of questions we did not address previously. These are centered on locative (adjunct) and instrumental passives, Voice and PPs. After a...
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. Indeed, (1) seems to express that going to Harlem requires taking the A train, rather than the mere desire to do so, a reading standard...
Syn/Sem Talk – Boram Kim
2122 Campbell HallFaculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallPhonetics seminar – Jian-Leat Siah
Campbell Hall 2122AJian-Leat Siah “Perceptibility effects in the typology of repairs: Evidence from perception and artificial grammar learning studies”