Adrian Stegovec‘s chapter on Number in Slovenian has recently been published in Number in the World’s Languages: A Comparative Handbook (De Gruyter Mouton 2022, edited by Paolo Acquaviva and Michael Daniel), the 5th volume in the series Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics.
We are pleased to announce that Omar Agha will be joining our department for the coming academic year. Omar is finishing up his dissertation in semantics at NYU with Lucas Champollion, having previously received a BA in linguistics and mathematics at the University of Chicago. He will teach courses in semantics/pragmatics and computational linguistics.
You can find more information about his research here.
Welcome Omar!
Shuyan Wang’s article “Effects of Processing Limits on Computing Scalar Implicatures: Evidence from Child English and Child Mandarin” has just appeared online ahead of its print publication in Language Learning and Development. Congratulations Shuyan!
Christos Christopoulos successfully defended his dissertation Structures All the Way: Toward a deeper theory of affix order on July 11th.
Congratulations, Christos!
Christos defending:
Dr. Christopoulos with his committee:
Stefan Kaufmann’s article “Bernoulli Semantics and Ordinal Semantics for Conditionals” has just appeared online ahead of its print publication in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. Congratulations Stefan!
Muyi Yang’s article “Iffy discourse: Japanese moshi in conditionals and nominal topics” has just appeared online ahead of its print publication in Linguistics Vanguard. Congratulations Muyi!
Magdalena Kaufmann will give an invited online talk as part of the SPAGAD (SPeech Acts in Grammar And Discourse) lecture series at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin on July 1st. The talk will be titled: A compositional take on directive microvariation (abstract and link can be found here).
Ivana Jovović’s article “Condition B and Other Conditions on Pronominal Licensing in Serbo-Croatian” has just appeared online ahead of its print publication in Linguistic Inquiry. Congratulations Ivana!
Abstract: I argue that certain binding facts from Serbo-Croatian, analyzed as Condition B violations by Despić (2011, 2013), are best captured in terms of specific discourse constraints on coreferential pronouns and that such cases have no bearing on the categorial status of the nominal domain in Serbo-Croatian. I show that the availability of clitic and non-clitic pronouns that are coreferential with a possessor antecedent crucially depends on whether the antecedent is a discourse topic or new information focus; this leads me to conclude that such cases are not Condition B violations. I also observe that pronouns in English are subject to identical conditions and conclude that English also has clitic and nonclitic pronouns.
Shuyan Wang gave an invited talk at Xi’an International Studies University on June 10th. The title of her talk was: Scalar implicatures in child language: The role of processing capacities.
Magda and Stefan Kaufmann will be teaching at the summer school Conditionals 2022 (école thématique CNRS), held at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, June 13-17, 2022: