Please join us for a Linguistics Department open house during the UWM Fall Welcome! Come learn about the field of linguistics, meet the faculty and graduate students, tour our labs, and get to know UWM Linguistics! Date: Tuesday, September 1, […]
This week in the S-Group, Jacklyn Ryan discusses her research on post-copular quotatives in English. All are welcome!
This week in the S-Group, Nick Fleisher presents work in progress on exceptional scope in clausal comparatives.
S-Group meeting: Paolo Santorio will discuss his recent paper (coauthored with Jacopo Romoli), Probabilistic might and the free choice effect.
Linguistics colloquium: Paolo Santorio, University of Leeds "Alternatives and Truthmakers in Conditional Semantics" Abstract: Most contemporary theories of conditionals in semantics are descendants of Stanaker/Lewis/Kratzer's comparative closeness analysis. I start by revisiting a classical problem for this analysis: conditionals with […]
S-Group meeting: Garry Davis, "Borrowing, cluster adaptation, and tone mapping: How Thai became polysyllabic".