We will be meeting on Friday, September 27, 12:15-1:15pm in Oak 338. We will be discussing the paper “Attitudes in discourse: Italian polar questions and the particle mica” by Ilaria Frana and Kyle Rawlins (forthcoming in Semantics and Pragmatics).

We will be meeting on Friday, September 20, 12:15-1:15pm in Oak 338. We will be discussing the paper “Counterfactuals, Negation, and Polarity” by Michela Ippolito and Julia Su (2014).

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We will meet on Friday, September 13, 12:15-1:15pm in Oak 338. We will be discussing the paper “Relevance Topics” by Sophie Repp (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, 2015). The paper is attached.

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We will be meeting on Friday, September 6, 12:15-1:15pm in Oak 338. We will be discussing the manuscript “A problem about preference” by Thony Gillies (attached).

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We will be meeting on Friday, August 30, 12:15-1:15pm in Oak 338. Xuetong Yuan will be presenting her talk “A discourse model for Mandarin ba-interrogatives” (to be delivered at Sinn und Bedeutung in Osnabrück, Germany, next week). Abstract attached.

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Stefan Kaufmann (Linguistics) and Stewart Shapiro (Philosophy) will be co-teaching a seminar on “Plurals” this semester. A draft syllabus is attached to this message. It is very preliminary, but will at least give you a rough idea of the topics to be covered. You can register to take the seminar for credit under either of its numbers (LING 6410 or PHIL 5342). Auditing is also an option. Please direct any questions you might have to either of the instructors.

The Meaning Group will meet this Friday, May 10, at 1:15 in Oak Hall 338. Magdalena Kaufmann will present an early version of her upcoming invited talk at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT). The title of her talk is Who’s controlling who (and what) – evidence from embedded imperatives and insubordinates. Feedback will be much appreciated.

There will be no Meaning Group meeting on Friday, May 3. Instead, everyone is encouraged to check out the program of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) Worskhop “Communication, Context, Conversatioun” this Friday and Saturday (see the attached flyer).

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The Logic Colloquium on Friday, April 26, 2:30pm in the Humanities Institute (Babbidge Libarary, 4th floor), will feature Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz).

Computational Cognitive Modeling for Syntax and Semantics

(joint work with Jakub Dotlačil)

Abstract: I introduce a typical experimental task in psycholinguistics — self-paced reading — and show how to build end-to-end simulations of a human participant in such an experiment; end-to-end means that we model visual and motor processes together with specifically linguistic processes (syntactic and semantic parsing) in a complete model of the experimental task. The model embeds theoretical hypotheses about linguistic representations and parsing processes in an independently motivated cognitive architecture (ACT-R). In turn, the resulting cognitive models can be embedded in Bayesian models to fit them to experimental data, estimate their parameters and perform quantitative model comparison for qualitative theories.

Stefan Kaufmann will be teaching at a one-week summer school on conditionals in Paris, France, June 3-7. The faculty there will be a mix of philosophers and linguists (well, one linguist…):

Dorothy Edgington
Igor Douven
Stefan Kaufmann
John Mackay
David Over

There will also be a concurrent workshop, run by Karen Lewis.

Here is a link to the website with more information.

People interested in conditionals from a linguistic, philosophical or psychological perspective should consider attending this. The deadline for early-bird registration is April 30. There is a registration fee, but I hear that that is somewhat flexible, so sticker shock should not deter you. Get in touch with me and/or the organizers if you have questions.