We are meeting on Friday, April 24, 12:30-1:30pm. Teru will lead the discussion about “The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications” by Satoshi Tomioka.
We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.
We are meeting on Friday, April 17, 12:30-1:30pm. Xuetong will lead the discussion about “Now and then: Perspectives on positional variance in temporal demonstratives” by Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani (Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2019).
We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.
We will meet on Friday, April 10, 12:30-1:30pm. Our own Margaret Chui Yi Lee will present work in progress on the Cantonese NPI mat7zai6. An abstract is attached.
We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Webex. To access the session, please use the link below. For the password, please refer to the Meaning Group email.
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m75338adeaa915267e1a8c957d57b3730
We are meeting on Friday, April 3, 12:30-1:30pm. Ahmad will lead the discussion about “Local Satisfaction Guaranteed: A Presupposition Theory and Its Problems” by Bart Geurts (Linguistics and Philosophy, 1996).
We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.
On Friday 3/13, we will discuss the following paper:
Ogihara, T. (2020) Aspect and Thematic Roles. Journal of Semantics, 37: 83-115.
Find it here.
We are meeting on Friday, Mar 13, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. Éno will lead the discussion about “Naming and epistemic necessity” by Dilip Ninan (Noûs, 2019).
We are meeting on Friday, Mar 6, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. Robin will lead the discussion about “Plural Marking and d-Linking in Spanish Interrogatives” by Mora Maldonado, which has just come out in the Journal of Semantics.
We will be meeting on Friday, Feb 14, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. Muyi will lead the discussion about “The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal” by Roumyana Izvorski (Proceedings of SALT 7).
We will meet on Friday, February 28, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. Our own Ahmad Jabbar will present his work on the retraction of epistemically modalized utterances. As background reading, he recommends the paper “Modal Disagreements” by Justin Khoo.
We will be meeting on Friday, February 07, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. Nadine will lead the discussion about “Decomposing universal projection in questions.” by Bernhard Schwarz and Alexandra Simonenko, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22.