Magdalena Kaufmann gave an invited talk, titled “Conjoining(,) conditionals and coherence relations”, in response to Una Stojnić’s book “Context and Coherence”, at the annual “Philosophy of Language and Linguistics” conference which took place September 5-9, 2022 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Talks
UConn Linguistics at GLOW in Asia
The 13th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia (GLOW in Asia XIII) Online Special will be held online August 4-7, 2022, hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. UConn linguistics will be well represented at the conference with a plenary talk by:
- Željko Bošković. On wh and subject positions and the EPP
… main session talks by:
- Norio Nasu, Takayuki Akimoto, Koji Shimamura (PhD 2018, now at Kanazawa Gakuin University and Kobe City University of Foreign Studies), and Yusuke Yoda. The Categorial Status of Embedded Questions in Japanese
- Shuki Otani and Yuta Tatsumi (PhD 2021, now at Meikai University). Light nouns and extraction from null clausal arguments
- Shengyun Gu. H2 spread in Shanghai Sign Language: mapping syntax to phonology
- Penelope Daniel. Deriving person-based differential argument marking in Ik
- Myung-Kwan Park (PhD 1994, now at Dongguk University). The Placement of WHY and Intervention & Superiority
… and flash talks by:
- Marcin Dadan (PhD 2019, now at University of Iowa). Labelers and anti-labelers: Clitics and Second Position
- Hiromune Oda (PhD 2021, now at University of Tokyo). Large-scale Pied-piping in the Labeling Theory and Conditions on Weak Heads
- Yusuke Yagi. Definite Description for Tenses: More Analogy Between Pronouns and Tenses
- Akihiko Arano. On the locality of A-scrambling in Japanese
- Tarcisio Dias. Hyper-raising and the subject position in Brazilian Portuguese
The conference will also include a one day Workshop on Workspace, MERGE, and Labelling (August 7), with a keynote address by:
- Mamoru Saito (UConn and Notre Dame Seishin University). Two Notes on the Unification of NP-movement and Control by Form Copy
… and a talk by:
- Adrian Stegovec. The third way: Optional object reordering as ambiguous labeling resolution
Magdalena Kaufmann | Talk in SPAGAD lecture series
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).
UConn Linguists at ICSLA
The 4th International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA 4) hosted by Boston University, will take place virtually on June 23-25, 2022. UConn will be well represented at the conference with presentations by:
- L. Viola Kozak, Shengyun Gu, Deborah Chen Pichler (PhD 2001, now at Gallaudet University) and Diane Lillo-Martin. Phonological Development in ASL Signing Children: Comparing Approaches to Scoring a Pseudosign Repetition Task
- Deborah Chen Pichler and Helen Koulidobrova (PhD 2012, now at Central Connecticut State University). Effects of reversibility and animacy on constituent order in beginner M2L2 signing
- Kaj Kraus, Taylor Chumley, Mary Cecilia Conte, Martin Dale-Hench, Tayla Newman and Deborah Chen Pichler. Character vs. observer: Revisiting viewpoint in M2L2 signer narratives (POSTER)
- Ronice Müller de Quadros, Marilyn Mafra Klamt, Pamela Perniss and Diane Lillo-Martin. Visual cohesion in Coda multimodal productions (POSTER)
UConn Linguistics at FASL
The 31st annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 31) hosted by McMaster University in a hybrid mode is taking place on June 24-26. UConn linguistics will be well represented with presentations by:
- Željko Bosković. Wh & wh Coordinations
- Sandra Stjepanović (PhD 1999, now at West Virginia University). Left Branch Extraction and Agreement with Hybrid Nouns (POSTER)
- Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell University). Nominal Ellipsis of Hybrid Nouns in Serbian
- Beccy Lewis. Associative plurals in Slavic languages
- Danil Khristov, Artur Stepanov (PhD 2001, now at University of Nova Gorica), Julie Franck & Penka Stateva (PhD 2002, now at University of Nova Gorica). Feature Assignment Errors in the Bulgarian Quantified Noun Phrase (POSTER)
… as well as an invited talk by:
- Neda Todorović (PhD 2016, now at University of British Columbia). What are(n’t) we asking with a (negative) polar question in Serbian?
Shuyan Wang | invited talk at XISU
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.
UConn Linguistics at SALT
The 32nd conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) will take place on June 8-10 in Mexico City and will be co-hosted by El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). UConn will be represented at the conference with presentations by:
- Muyi Yang. Singularity and plurality of discourse reference to worlds.
- Teruyuki Mizuno and Stefan Kaufmann. Past-as-Past in counterfactual desire reports: a view from Japanese.
Stefan Kaufmann | Talk at Stanford
Stefan Kaufmann gave a talk on his paper “How Fake is Fake Past?” in the “Construction of Meaning” series at Stanford University on May 19, 2022.
UConn Linguists at WCCFL
The 40th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted by Stanford University, will take place virtually on May 13-15, 2022. UConn will be well represented at the conference with talks by:
- Beccy Lewis. British English do-ellipsis is phasal ellipsis
- Ari Goertzel. Pseudo noun incorporation in Mandinka
- Željko Bošković. Binding and agreement in distributed coordinations
- Zheng Shen (PhD 2018, now at National University of Singapore) and Meghan Lim. The definite DP island in wh-questions and relative clauses
- Maria Kouneli, Paula Fenger (PhD 2020, now at Leipzig University), and Jonathan Bobaljik. Syntactic limitations on phonological dominance
Romance Languages: Recent Contributions to Linguistic Theory
The event Romance Languages: Recent Contributions to Linguistic Theory will take place online on April 28-29 hosted by Harvard University, with the following talks by UConn linguists:
- Tarcísio Dias. Local wh-subjects under Brazilian Portuguese Quem nunca? Ellipsis
- Julio Villa-García (PhD 2012, now at University of Oviedo & University of Manchester) & Denis Ott. Bisententiality in Romance: the case of multiple-complementizer sentences
- Jairo Nunes (University of São Paulo & Adjunct Associate Professor at UConn). Defective Phases and the Grammar of Brazilian Portuguese (invited talk)