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April 2021
Syntax Seminar – Journal Club
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Read MoreColloquium with Kristen Syrett (Rutgers)
Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98929850267?pwd=Y3hUdi9RSG5ITG9UT0ZGRUFReU5hdz09 Meeting ID: 989 2985 0267 Passcode: colloquium Abstract: Making comparisons and interpreting comparatives in child language Rutgers University – New Brunswick For 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 thrown some complicated ones their way!). The source of the difficulty has been alternatively attributed to a lack of understanding…
Read MoreSyntax Seminar – Stefan Keine
Stefan Keine on Hindi/Urdu crossover asymmetries ( joint work with Rajesh Bhatt) We investigate and analyze a crossover asymmetry in Hindi/Urdu scrambling: such scrambling is not subject to (secondary) weak crossover but at the same time shows clear (secondary) strong crossover effects. This asymmetry provides empirical evidence that the two types of crossover must be analytically decoupled from each other, and it sheds new light on the factors that condition each type. We find that weak crossover is conditioned by the…
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Review of first-year Grad students
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