NYU Linguistics

Cheers to Dan Lassiter, Simon Charlow, Salvador Mascarenhas, and Eytan Zweig (PhD 2007), who will be busy and keeping others busy at ESSLLI (European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information), Bordeaux, July 20-31.

Dan has three talks (plus papers in the proceedings):

"Symmetric presupposition satisfaction is intra-sentential presupposition correction", Workshop on New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition.
"Vagueness as probabilistic linguistic knowledge", Workshop on Vagueness in Communication.
"The algebraic structure of amounts: evidence from comparatives", ESSLLI Student Session.

Simon has two talks (plus papers in the proceedings):

“Strong predicative presuppositional objects", Workshop on New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition.
"Can DP be a scope island?", ESSLLI Student Session.

Salvador is co-chair of the Logic and Language section of the ESSLLI Student Session.

Eytan co-teaches Plurality and Distributivity Across Language(s) and Logic(s) with George Tsoulas.

We are pleased to announce SSWL, an open-ended database of the syntactic structures of the world's languages. (Alternatively, Google: sswl database.)
Please feel free to go to the site and play around with it, doing searches and browsing the languages and properties.
Ultimately, we hope to fill the database with thousands of grammatical properties and thousands of languages all provided by members of the wider linguistic community.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: linguisticexplorer@gmail.com
Chris Collins
Department of Linguistics
NYU

Cheers to Kara and Libby's publication of:

Kara Becker and Elizabeth L. Coggshall, The Sociolinguistics of Ethnicity in New York City, 2009, Language and Linguistic Compass, 3.3: 751-766.

Suzanne Dikker will give an invited lecture entitled Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex at the Leipzig Max Planck Institute on July 8th.

Paul Postal's book on "Edge-based Clausal Syntax" will be published by the MIT Press. An earlier version is posted at Lingbuzz.

Jen Nycz will be presenting a paper at ICLaVE (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), at the University of Copenhagen on behalf of the Accents & Identity on the Scottish-English Border project. The paper is entitled "The Scottish-English Borderland: Phonological Production, Perception and Attitude" (authors: Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall & Jennifer Nycz).

Vincent Chanethom will be presenting a paper entitled "Acquisition of English Aspiration: a Longitudinal Study" at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, which will be held at Utrecht, the Netherlands on July 8-11.