BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Linguistics Department - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Linguistics Department REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T180000 DTSTAMP:20260401T114129Z CREATED:20260401T114129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T114129Z UID:10000329-1774886400-1774893600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-5/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T140000 DTSTAMP:20260212T151604Z CREATED:20260212T151604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T151604Z UID:10000306-1773399600-1773410400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Kalen Chang DESCRIPTION:Two notions of strong equivalence\nIn this talk\, I propose two notions of equivalence between grammars and grammar formalisms that are useful for comparing not only which strings can be generated\, but also how they are generated. If a sentence is ambiguous in a language\, a suitable grammar should derive that sentence in multiple ways. In the first notion\, two grammars are equivalent if they generate each string in the same number of ways. The second involves considering all possible homomorphic functions over derivation trees\, including the usual semantic interpretations. Taking this perspective\, two grammars are equivalent if they generate the same sets of string-interpretation pairs. I will demonstrate how these two notions apply to Context-Free Grammars and Pushdown Automata\, as well as to Head Grammars and Linear Indexed Grammars\, and discuss how studying translations between equivalent grammar formalisms sheds light on the recursive mechanisms underlying each formalism. \nLocation: Fowler Museum A139 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kalen-chang/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T160000 DTSTAMP:20260305T063135Z CREATED:20260305T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T063135Z UID:10000318-1773324000-1773331200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Shalinee Maitra DESCRIPTION:Can children use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs? \nHow do children learn how their language marks tense and aspect? How do they disentangle what marks tense and what marks aspect? I consider these questions and present some preliminary results from a study investigating whether English-acquiring children can use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs\, as well as a planned follow-up study. Showing when children can use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs bears on the question of whether this morphology can aid them in vocabulary learning\, while also constraining the relevant time period for investigating how tense and aspect morphology are acquired. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-shalinee-maitra-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T133000 DTSTAMP:20260305T062912Z CREATED:20260305T062912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T062912Z UID:10000316-1773230400-1773235800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Ed Keenan DESCRIPTION:In languages with just first order quantifiers (e.g. English LF a la Heim & Kratzer 1998) whether a sentence is valid (logically true\, true in all models) depends on the valence of the lexical predicates in L. If all are one place\, P1s\, then validity is algorithmic (decidable); this fails once a single lexical two place predicate\, P2\, is added (Boolos and Jeffrey 1989). We illustrate this with a simple non-mathematical example from English. E.g. lexical P2s like like plus first order quantifiers enable us to construct sentences that are false in all finite models but true in some infinite ones. Mere P1s cannot force their models to be infinite (B&L 1989). Building on this we show that object quantifiers are logically more expressive than subject quantifiers (contra Heim & Kratzer). So while all subject quantifiers may occur on objects\, many object quantifiers do not occur grammatically on subjects. Further\, the logical richness of P2s also supports the existence of non-compositional quantifiers determined by pairs that map the P2 denotation directly to 0 or 1. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-ed-keenan-3/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162856Z CREATED:20260114T162856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162856Z UID:10000295-1773151200-1773158400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Bruce Hayes DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-bruce-hayes/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T180000 DTSTAMP:20260205T160218Z CREATED:20260205T160218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T160218Z UID:10000302-1773072000-1773079200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Jahnavi Narkar DESCRIPTION:The acoustic space of stop laryngeal contrasts URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-jahnavi-narkar/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T140000 DTSTAMP:20260205T160100Z CREATED:20260205T160100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T160100Z UID:10000301-1772627400-1772632800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Open House Presentations by P-Lab Members DESCRIPTION:New time for Phonetics Seminar this week! URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-open-house-presentations-by-p-lab-members/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T133000 DTSTAMP:20260225T133911Z CREATED:20260225T133911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T133911Z UID:10000312-1772627400-1772631000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Will Zimmermann\, Hannah Lippard DESCRIPTION:Epistemic modality as disjunction in Cinyungwe\nHannah Lippard \nI will present a portion of my ongoing dissertation research on polysemous disjunction in the Mozambican Bantu language Cinyungwe. In this talk\, I will focus on the lexical items peno and pinango\, which have both disjunctive and epistemic modal meanings. As coordinators and as modals\, their syntactic distribution partially but not entirely overlaps. I will present empirical patterns regarding the interpretations of peno and pinango\, including bisyndetic coordination\, noun class agreement\, subject-object asymmetry\, and speaker knowledge. I will suggest that neither word has Boolean disjunction as its core semantic meaning. Instead\, both appear to be instances of Cinyungwe co-opting discourse-adverbial epistemic modals to express disjunction. \n  \nWhat is bro doing?\nWill Zimmermann \nBro is a decidedly Gen-Z/Internet piece of vernacular\, and its users accept sentences like (1-3). In this talk\, I aim to bring us closer to situating bro within a typology of pronominals and related objects. \n\nWhat is bro doing?\nI feel bad for bro\nBro hasn’t read {his/her/their/*bro’s} Kripke\n\nLike a third singular pronoun\, bro picks out a referent in the discourse (1-2). It can occur anywhere in the string\, as demonstrated by (1-3). Additionally\, it can be coreferential with a pronoun of any gender but cannot itself be bound\, both shown in (3). Taken together with the fact that it is clearly lexical yet lacks an overt determiner\, this makes it seem like some sort of proper name. And yet it carries a strong (negative\, humorous\, sarcastic) evaluative component\, making it seem like an epithet (e.g.\, the guy\, the idiot; see Patel-Grosz 2014\, 2015) . So what is it? I do not propose a final analysis of this never-before-studied item\, but I do try to get us closer. \nThis talk is structured as follows. After introducing bro and its general properties\, I discuss personal pronominal inventories cross-linguistically\, demonstrating that they do not have to be closed and non-lexical like in standard English (Panagiotidis 2002; Ritter & Wiltschko 2019; Song\, Nguyen\, and Biberauer 2024\, a.o.). Next\, I discuss epithets and find that\, although bro possesses some epithet-like properties (has a negative evaluative component\, cannot bear stress)\, it fails other tests. I then discuss whether bro can be treated as a proper noun. Finally\, I introduce a number of bro-like items from the same register\, namely blud\, sis\, and unc\, which all function essentially the same. Intriguingly\, bro and these other items\, which I refer to collectively as bronouns\, are all originally either shortened kinship terms or words that refer to a certain kind of friend. I draw a connection to the superficially similar items Mom and Dad\, and I propose a diachronic account of bronouns. I conclude by relating their evolution to that of kinship-based pronouns in (South) East Asian languages like Vietnamese. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-will-zimmermann-hannah-lippard/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T180000 DTSTAMP:20260303T093153Z CREATED:20260303T093153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T093153Z UID:10000313-1772553600-1772560800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Jack Duff DESCRIPTION:Pragmatic effects can be hard to pin down in reading time measures. I’ll talk about a garden-path-like effect resulting from eager causal inferencing in English discourses\, which has been found once in eye-tracking (Hoek et al. 2021)\, but which I’ve failed to find in self-paced reading or Maze latencies (Duff 2023). Drawing on Clifton (2013)\, I’ll show new results using an alternative method\, using math questions between SPR passages and comprehension questions to require long-term storage of discourse meaning\, and thereby encourage rich first-pass representations. This turns out to do the trick! I’m hoping for thoughts and feedback on some ways of understanding why *this* method in particular should be helpful for encouraging incremental pragmatic enrichment in reading experiments. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-jack-duff-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162806Z CREATED:20260114T162806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162806Z UID:10000294-1772546400-1772553600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Isa Cabrera DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-isa-cabrera-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T150000 DTSTAMP:20260225T133815Z CREATED:20260225T133815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T133815Z UID:10000311-1772200800-1772204400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FIELD Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/field-group-meeting-4/ LOCATION:2101K Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T140000 DTSTAMP:20250917T095407Z CREATED:20250917T095407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T095407Z UID:10000244-1772190000-1772200800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk – Karthik Durvasula DESCRIPTION:Gradience\, phonology and individual variation\nResearch over the last few decades has consistently questioned the sufficiency of abstract/discrete phonological representations based on putative misalignments between predictions from such representations and observed experimental results. Here\, I’ll first suggest that many of the arguments ride on misunderstandings of the original claims from generative phonology\, and that the typical evidence furnished is consistent with those claims. I’ll then narrow in on two phenomena\, namely\, incomplete neutralisation and near mergers\, and show again that they are consistent with the classic generative phonology view. I’ll further point out that extant accounts of the phenomena do not achieve important desiderata and typically do not provide explanations. Finally\, I present formalisations and simulations that correctly capture the desiderata for each of the phenomena. \nLocation: Fowler Museum A139 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-karthik-durvasula/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260227T110000 DTSTAMP:20260211T133000Z CREATED:20260211T133000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T133000Z UID:10000305-1772182800-1772190000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-126/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T160000 DTSTAMP:20260305T063051Z CREATED:20260305T063051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T063051Z UID:10000317-1772114400-1772121600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Evan Hochstein DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-evan-hochstein-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T140000 DTSTAMP:20260217T101312Z CREATED:20260217T101312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T101312Z UID:10000309-1772020800-1772028000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Cor Zanda DESCRIPTION:The Factative Effect in Avatime \nThe Factative Effect (Welmers 1973) is a phenomenon found in many African languages whereby a single aspectual category\, often labeled the factative\, seemingly has a past perfective usage with dynamic predicates and a present imperfective usage with stative predicates. Despite its prevalence\, this pattern has received little theoretical attention. In this talk\, I provide a description and partial analysis of the Factative Effect in Avatime\, a Ghana-Togo Mountain language spoken in Ghana\, based on novel fieldwork data. I argue that apparently stative predicates in Avatime encode a complex event structure composed of a change-of-state event and a subsequent target state. Such a representation lets us account for their behavior across a range of environments\, including in the factative aspect. Avatime therefore gives us a window into the semantics of lexical and grammatical aspect and their cross-linguistic variation. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-cor-zanda/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162530Z CREATED:20260114T162530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162530Z UID:10000293-1771941600-1771948800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- M. Rehan & David Goldstein DESCRIPTION:From Points to Polygons: Modelling Spatial Correlation\, Practice Talk for Evolang URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-m-rehan-david-goldstein/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260205T155805Z CREATED:20260205T155805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T155805Z UID:10000300-1771862400-1771869600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Ji Young Kim (Dept of Spanish & Portuguese) DESCRIPTION:Towards predicting phonetic drift in heritage speakers URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-ji-young-kim-dept-of-spanish-portuguese-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000 DTSTAMP:20260217T144237Z CREATED:20260217T144237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T144237Z UID:10000310-1771509600-1771516800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Adam Leif DESCRIPTION:Agree is considered one of the fundamental operations of Minimalist Syntax\, responsible for establishing long-distance dependencies (e.g. agreement\, wh-movement). Various models of Agree have been suggested over the last few decades\, and the operation has become increasingly flexible and parameterized (e.g. with articulated probes\, separation of interaction and satisfaction) to account for complex data. However\, as we strengthen Agree\, what extra typological predictions do we make? Do they coincide with observed data\, or do we face significant overgeneration? In the latter case\, can we identify the individual modifications to Agree that result in a mechanism that is “too strong”\, in some way? I’ll present my (very ongoing) work\, which includes a face-value implementation in Python of Chomsky 2000/2001’s version of Agree. I should come with some interesting patterns that it generates\, and am hoping to frame things more as a discussion than a full presentation. Looking forward to hearing people’s thoughts! URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-adam-leif/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T140000 DTSTAMP:20260217T100940Z CREATED:20260217T100940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T100940Z UID:10000308-1771416000-1771423200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Anand Abraham DESCRIPTION:Internal determiners in Pular relative clauses \nThis talk presents novel data from Pular\, an Atlantic language spoken in Guinea. I show that in Pular\, it is possible to express the determiner for a relative clause in a clause-internal position\, directly after any verb. Based on this\, I argue for the following claims. First\, Pular provides evidence for a head-raising analysis of relative clauses\, with the head noun and determiner both originating in a clause-internal position. Second\, heads of Pular relative clauses move successive-cyclically to their final position through vP-specifiers\, and it is at these positions where the determiner may be realized. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-anand-abraham/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260217T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162345Z CREATED:20260114T162345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162345Z UID:10000292-1771336800-1771344000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Zach Metzler DESCRIPTION:Sierra Miwwok Templates-\, Practice Talk for Prosodic & Segmental Patterns in Morpholog URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-zach-metzler-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T150000 DTSTAMP:20260213T160748Z CREATED:20260213T160748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T160748Z UID:10000307-1770991200-1770994800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FIELD Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/field-group-meeting-3/ LOCATION:2101K Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T140000 DTSTAMP:20250922T152825Z CREATED:20250922T152825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T152825Z UID:10000248-1770980400-1770991200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Shota Momma DESCRIPTION:Structure building in language production\nLanguage production is one of the two primary ways in which we use our grammatical knowledge. However\, compared to our understanding of how comprehenders parse sentences\, how speakers build sentence structures for speaking remains poorly understood. In this talk\, I make two main claims about the nature of structure building processes during sentence production. First\, I argue that speakers represent highly abstract structural representations of sentences\, whose nature is surprisingly well captured by existing syntactic theories that were developed primarily to explain cross-linguistic acceptability judgment patterns. I present two lines of work supporting this claim: one on structural priming\, and another on the recently explored phenomenon that the overt complementizer that is more likely to be omitted when it is in the path of an A-bar dependency. Second\, I argue that the notion of locality in syntax shows an interesting parallel with the notion of planning units in sentence production. This claim is based on a recent series of studies suggesting that speakers manipulate structural units that can be construed as domains of locality under a particular syntactic theory\, namely Tree Adjoining Grammar. I conclude by sketching a theory of structure building in language production integrating these two claims. \nLocation: Fowler Museum A139 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-shota-momma/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T110000 DTSTAMP:20260211T132915Z CREATED:20260211T132915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T132915Z UID:10000304-1770976800-1770980400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-125/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T133000 DTSTAMP:20260209T155745Z CREATED:20260209T155745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T155745Z UID:10000303-1770811200-1770816600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - János Egressy DESCRIPTION:Under standard Phase Theory\, the locality constraint deriving successive cyclicity is the PIC (Chomsky 2001)\, which requires movement to proceed via the edge of phases. For example\, a CP phase can only be escaped via Spec\,CP. The Williams Cycle (Williams 2003; Poole 2023) generalizes selective opacity\, a different kind of locality: It is P’s relative size that makes it opaque to probes that are not sufficiently high in the next lowest clause. For example\, probes on C but not on T can search into CP because C T in the functional sequence. Most accounts of selective opacity (Keine 2020) or the Williams Cycle effects (Meadows 2023) handle successive cyclicity and Williams Cycle effects as independent phenomena. That is\, a CP may independently necessitate successive cyclicity because it’s a phase and exhibit WC effects because it’s too large. \nThis talk provides a unified account that derives successive cyclicity and Williams Cycle effects. Specifically\, I introduce a novel constraint\, which dictates movement steps must proceed along well-formed fseq-fragments\, i.e. must be turned into steps that are clause-internal in the relevant sense. Cross-clausal movement can proceed via two strategies. My account predicts that the first strategy\, successive cyclic sub-extraction obviates Williams Cycle effects because movement from the embedded clause’s edge is free to the matrix clause (e.g. in Mongolian (Fong\, 2019) and P’urhepecha clauses (Zyman\, 2017)). If sub-extraction cannot proceed successive cyclically from a clause (e.g. German or Hindi CPs)\, sub-extraction can still proceed via an alternative strategy: The clause moves to an equal-sized matrix projection. Since the clause’s movement is delayed till the matrix clause reaches the size of the embedded clause\, clauses requiring extraposition for transparency will exhibit Williams Cycle effects. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-janos-egressy-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162102Z CREATED:20260114T162102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162102Z UID:10000291-1770732000-1770739200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Aidan Ackerman DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. 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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-aidan-ackerman/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260209T180000 DTSTAMP:20260205T155435Z CREATED:20260205T155435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T155435Z UID:10000299-1770652800-1770660000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Coralie Cram DESCRIPTION:“Cross-linguistic differences in coarticulation in two Australian languages” URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-coralie-cram/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T110000 DTSTAMP:20250917T095143Z CREATED:20250917T095143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T095143Z UID:10000243-1770375600-1770375600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Adrian Brasoveanu DESCRIPTION:Reimagining the Semantics of Narratives and Counterfactuals\nWe propose a semantics for narratives and counterfactuals that explicitly connects them to cognitive models of temporal / causal inferences in narrative discourse comprehension. Both narrative discourses and counterfactuals are understood by (i) constructing temporally-indexed sequences of situation models\, which are analog vector-space representations of meaning grounded in our experience perceiving and understanding the world (our learned model of the world)\, and then (ii) enriching these representations with temporal inferences through a temporal coherence-seeking process. The account\, which we term Distributed Situation-model Semantics (DSS)\, builds on the Distributed Situation Space model of narrative discourse comprehension in Frank et al. 2003\, showing how we can use it to move beyond theoretically primitive notions of counterfactual similarity by computing / constructing a historically-structured similarity relation through this coherence-seeking interpretation process. We formalize a semantics that integrates linguistic input with rich temporal world knowledge\, interprets narratives and counterfactuals in a graded and context-sensitive manner\, and inherently links probabilistic representations of truth-conditions to processing time. In doing so\, DSS challenges the traditional semantics-pragmatics and competence-performance distinctions\, treating learning world models (acquiring world knowledge)\, processing time\, and continuous\, differentiable\, probabilistic truth-conditional representations as intrinsic components of semantic theory. Semantic interpretation is conceptualized as content-addressable memory (a continuous Hopfield network\, Hopfield 1984)\, the counterfactual antecedent and the actual context as a memory cue\, and counterfactual similarity is understood as timeline retrieval / pattern completion of this cue. \nLocation: Fowler Museum A139 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-adrian-brasoveanu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000 DTSTAMP:20260112T120452Z CREATED:20260112T120452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T120452Z UID:10000278-1770300000-1770307200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-11/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T140000 DTSTAMP:20260112T121927Z CREATED:20260112T121927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T121927Z UID:10000287-1770206400-1770213600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Ethan Poole DESCRIPTION:Syntactic variables and semantic minimality \nEthan Poole (joint work with Zahra Mirrazi) \nWe argue that when two syntactic variables are “related” and stand in a c-command relationship at LF\, a ¾-pattern emerges: free/free\, bound/bound\, bound/free\, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under this pattern: Dahl’s Puzzle\, SCO effects\, the Nested DP Constraint\, exceptional de dicto\, de re blocking\, and certain restrictions on fake indexicals. Building on Drummond 2014\, we propose that these phenomena reflect a minimality-style constraint on variables: (roughly) a variable may not be bound across a related free variable. The notion of “related”\, we define in terms of overlap in value and counterparts\, an extension of Reinhart’s (2006) covaluation. We argue that this “semantic minimality” does not straightforwardly reduce to the garden-variety syntactic minimality; rather\, we suggest that syntactic and semantic minimality are separate\, convergent consequences of economy. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-ethan-poole-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162006Z CREATED:20260114T162006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162006Z UID:10000290-1770127200-1770134400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Claire Moore-Cantwell & Zach Metzler DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-claire-moore-cantwell-zach-metzler/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR