S-Group: Paolo Santorio
Johnston G35S-Group meeting: Paolo Santorio will discuss his recent paper (coauthored with Jacopo Romoli), Probabilistic might and the free choice effect.
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Colloquium: Paolo Santorio
Holton 190Linguistics 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: Zine-Eddine El Imam
Johnston G35P-Group: Hanyong Park and Dylan Pearson
Johnston 137S-Group: Garry Davis
Johnston G35S-Group meeting: Garry Davis, "Borrowing, cluster adaptation, and tone mapping: How Thai became polysyllabic".
S-Group: Aldholmi, Ouali, and Trinh
Johnston G35S-Group meeting: Yahya Aldholmi, Hamid Ouali, and Tue Trinh will discuss a set of observations about Standard Arabic that they are working on together. The goal is to bring case and agreement patterns in complex adjectival phrases into harmony with […]
Colloquium: Sonia Barnes
Holton 190Linguistics colloquium: Sonia Barnes, Marquette University Interactional stance, sociolinguistic style and the use of contact features in Asturian Spanish This study investigates the relation between the use of Asturian third person ye, interactional stance and sociolinguistic style in Asturian Spanish. […]
P-Group: Anne Pycha
Johnston 137P-Group presentation: Anne Pycha False memories for words with free variation in English and Spanish This research examines whether free variation makes listeners more (or less) likely to falsely remember words. Free variation is typically restricted to certain phonemes, and […]
S-Group: Juman Safwan Al Bukhari
Johnston G35S-Group meeting: Juman Safwan Al Bukhari will discuss her ongoing work on sluicing in Jordanian Arabic.
S-Group: David Pesetsky
Johnston G35S-Group meeting: David Pesetsky, MIT *Note special time: 1pm-2pm* David Pesetsky will join us for discussion of his paper with Jonah Katz, The Identity Thesis for Language and Music.