Muyi Yang will present her upcoming NELS talk “Causal networks in discourse: A case of Mandarin negative conditionals” at the LingLunch on Tuesday, October 02, 12:30-13:30 in Oak 338. Abstract below.
Month: September 2018
Talk of interest on 09/28: Yael Sharvit, UCLA
The Logic Colloquium on Friday, September 28 at 2:00pm in Oak 112, will be given by Yael Sharvit (Linguistics, UCLA).
Temporal reference in non-specific indefinites
Non-specific indefinite noun phrases in attitude environments can be transparent or opaque. The interpretation of temporal expressions inside the indefinite is constrained by transparency/opacity. The first fact follows from standard assumptions about attitude reports; the second does not. I propose an account that derives both these facts.
Meeting on 9/28: Mizuno and Yang
On Friday, September 28, 1-2pm in Oak Hall 338, Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang will be presenting their upcoming NELS poster “Toward a unified account of Japanese evidential youda: a Causal Bayesian approach.” Abstract below.