The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 16th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the Partee Room (South College 301).

At this meeting, Angelika Kratzer will lead an informal Q&A session on publishing in the field of semantics.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 9th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the third floor lounge.

At this meeting, Ilaria Frana will present her recent joint work with Kyle Rawlins (JHU) on negative questions with the particle “mica” in Italian.

This work will be presented as a poster at this year’s NELS. A PDF copy of the abstract appears below (note that Ilaria informs me that the analysis has changed somewhat since then).

mica_nels

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 2nd, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the Partee Room.

At this meeting, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten will present her recent work on adnominal modals in English and the particle “daats’i” in Navajo.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on September 25th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the third floor lounge.

At this meeting, Hannah Greene will present her work on the puzzle of ‘non-culminating accomplishments’ in Kwakwala.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on September 18th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the Partee Room.

At this meeting, Yangsook Park will present her work on the interactions between shifted indexicals and long-distance reflexives (logophors) in Korean.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on September 11th, from 12:20 to 1:10. Due to the unavailability of the Partee Room, the workshop will be held in the third floor lounge.

At this meeting, Seth Cable will present recent (very raw) work of his on the semantics of graded tenses in embedded clauses. Critical comments very welcome!

The first meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be on September 4th, from 12:20 to 1:10 in the Partee Room.

At this meeting, we will discuss the overall role of the workshop, and we’ll also set a preliminary schedule of activities for the term. Such activities include (and are not limited to):

• Presentations of works in progress by students, faculty, and visitors
• Practice talks for conferences, jobs, colloquia, etc. by students, faculty and visitors
• Discussion of recent semantics conferences
• Discussion of interesting recent semantics papers
• Discussion of upcoming semantics job searches
• Discussion of semantics journals and experiences submitting to them.
• Semantics journal club: short discussions of recent interesting papers, related or unrelated
• Anything related to semantics or the life of the semanticist!

Something really exciting is happening this week. Background reading is here.

Agenda: introductions, discussion of roles of Sound Workshop and PRG,
and filling up empty slots on schedule.

Discussion of roles of Sound Workshop and PRG

Some potential activities to be held in Sound Workshop:

• Practice talks for conferences, jobs, colloquia, etc. by students and faculty
• Presentation of in progress work, including from GPs, prospectus,
  and dissertation
• Journal club: both longer discussion of single articles, and blitz round highlights from a set of papers
• Slots for visiting speaker talks/mini-courses
• Sharing writing: scientific writing, stages in writing, journal
  submission process stages, abstract writing
• For this year: mini-series on various issues in phonological theory, presented/led by students and faculty, e.g. government phonology, feature geometry, developments in HS, topics TBD based on student interest

Some potential activities in Phonology Reading Group (PRG):

• Presentation of student work in progress
• Discussion of rough ideas, brainstorming by students
• Special events like fall event (People’s Pint? Apple picnic?) and spring pancake breakfast
• Informal student-led discussions/roundtables/Q&As with visitors,
  e.g. Sharon Peperkamp, Elliot Moreton

Scheduling

Let’s fill up those empty slots in the schedule!