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!
Christopoulos Defense
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 | Journal of Philosophical Logic
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!
Yang | Linguistics Vanguard
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 | 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?
Jovović | Linguistic Inquiry
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 | 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.
Kaufmanns at CNRS summer school
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:
- Magdalena Kaufmann. Conditionals without if – tracking conditional meaning across languages
- Stefan Kaufmann. Logical properties and linguistic expression of conditional meaning