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Hendrik Kim Dissertation Defense

Campbell 3103D

The syntax of negation in Korean given an antisymmetric and cartographic frameworkIn this talk, I will reassess the syntax of preverbal and postverbal negation by taking into consideration a framework which is based on the antisymmetry theory (Kayne 1994) in conjunction with the cartographic program (Cinque 1999), building on the works by Koopman & Szabolcsi...

Phonology Seminar – Journal Club

2122 Campbell Hall

(May be moved to Week 6) If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

Colloquium Talk – Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language ” (See below for abstract)

Location - Royce Hall 362 The department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language Abstract: To what extent are the phonological systems of languages, spoken or signed, structured similarly if we assume that they both draw on...

Colloquium Talk – Viola Schmitt: Distributivity is Complex

In this talk I show (based on joint cross-linguistic work with various collaborators) that distributive  -- i.e., `classical' -- meanings for the universal part of the language (connectives and DP-internal quantifiers) correspond to bigger morpho-syntactic structures while the corresponding smaller structures have a weak (plural) meaning. This, I will argue, raises a problem for a...