Pietro Cerrone successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Italian Clictic Left Dislocation and Ā-movement: an experimental investigation on Friday, April 28th.
Congratulations, Pietro!
Dr. Cerrone with his committee and audience after the successful defense:
Adrian Stegovec will give talk at Cornell as part of their Linguistics Colloquium series on April 27th, 2023. His talk will be titled “A typological gap in person restrictions and the un-parameterization of Agree”. More information on the talk can be found here.
The article “Island sensitivity in Brazilian Portuguese quem nunca? Constructions” by Tarcisio Dias was published in volume 18 of Revista Linguíʃtica. Congratulations!
Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann each gave an invited talk at the METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning, March 22-23, in Gökova-Akyaka, Muğla, Turkey.
The 47th annual Penn Linguistics Conference will take place virtually on March 18-19 and UConn linguistics will be represented at the conference with presentations by:
The article “Acquisition of overt and covert and: support for the semantic subset principle” by Yoshiki Fujiwara and Hiroyuki Shimada has just appeared as an online first article ahead of its print publication in Language Acquisition. Congratulations!
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children’s consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives; the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with disjunctive interpretations in these sentences and assign conjunctive interpretations. The results of our experiment however show that Japanese children can access the disjunctive interpretations when conjunctions are elided. This finding supports the idea that children are guided by the Semantic Subset Principle when determining the default value of any parameter associated with a logical connective.
Teruyuki Mizuno successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Counterfactual expressions: an investigation into their structures and meanings on Thursday, February 16.
Congratulations, Teru!
Teru getting ready for the defense:
Dr. Mizuno with his committee:
Dr. Mizuno with his well-earned cake:
Hiroaki Saito successfully defended his dissertation Ways of Saying – Synchronically and Diachronically on February 13th.
Congratulations, Hiro!
Picture: Dr. Saito after his successful defense with his committee (Željko Bošković, Magda Kaufmann, Ian Roberts, Susi Wurmbrand) and some of the audience.
Stefan Kaufmann presented his work on “Talking about time and possibility” as a fellow’s talk at the UConn Humanities Institute on February 1, 2023.
Muyi Yang successfully defended her dissertation Varieties of conditionals as definite descriptions on December 15th.
Congratulations, Muyi!
Muyi defending:
Dr. Yang with her committee:
Dr. Yang with her well-earned cake:
