Testing weak and strong definites experimentally across languages Schwarz (2009) proposed a distinction between weak and strong definite articles, reflected in Standard German in the presence or absence of contraction of the article with certain prepositions (e.g., vom vs. von dem). Semantically, the analysis took the former to be a situationally restricted uniqueness article, and the latter an anaphoric article bearing […]
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Nominating colloquium speakers
Rethinking classifier languages Classifier languages have long been of interest to formal semanticists. That such languages do not allow nouns to be modified directly by numerals have lead researchers to propose a significant degree of cross-linguistic variation between classifier and non-classifier languages in either noun meaning (e.g. Chierchia 1998) or numeral meaning (e.g. Krifka 1989, […]
Zenghui Liu “A cross-linguistic study on prosodic focus marking in Mon-Khmer languages”
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Asymmetries in (c)overt extraction from relative clauses and a linearization-based account Quantifiers usually give rise to scope ambiguity when two or more occur in the same clause: the surface scope is determined by the surface c-commanding relation between two quantificational phrases, while the inverse scope arises from some scope-shifting mechanism which does not bring phonological […]
Megha Sundara “How do infants learn phonotactics?”
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 that many embedded clauses are adjuncts (syntactically) and modifiers (semantically) rather than arguments of verbs they combine with (Elliott 2017, Bochnak & Hanink 2021, Bondarenko […]