Speaker: Ben Munson

Date and Time: Friday, Feb. 5, 4pm
Location: 10 Washington Place, 104 (Reception to follow)

Title: Falling off the ladder of abstraction: sociolinguistic variation and
phonological categories

Abstract:

Dan Lassiter's “Where is the conflict between internalism and externalism? A reply to Lohndal and Narita (2009)” will appear in the next issue of Biolinguistics. A preprint is available on his website. It is a response to their paper "Internalism as Methodology", which appeared in Biolinguistics 3:4 (2009). That paper, in turn, is a response to Dan's "Semantic Externalism, Language Variation, and Sociolinguistic Accommodation", published in Mind and Language 23:5 (2008) -- see also on Dan's website.

Tricia Irwin and Neil Myler will both be presenting at the Georgetown Linguistic Society conference Sound, Structure, Meaning: Explorations at the Interface, on February 12-14, 2010 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

http://sites.google.com/site/gls2010site/Home.

Tricia will be presenting on Intransitive sentences, argument structure, and the syntax-prosody interface and Neil’s talk will be on A Phrasal Derivational Affix: The Case of -yoq in Quechua. Alec Marantz will give an invited plenary talk.

All sociolab meetings are held at 10 Washington place, 3rd Floor,
unless otherwise specified. Contact cara.shousterman@nyu.edu for any
questions.

Feb 19 -- Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz, 1:30-3:00pm

March 5 -- John Singler, 1:00-2:30pm

March 26 -- Reading: Corrine McCarthy, 1:00-2:30pm

April 9 -- Donald Tricarico, 11:00am-12:30pm

April 23 -- Vincent Chanethom, 1:00-2:30pm

April 30 -- Amy Wong, 1:00-2:30pm

Jan. 22, 1:30pm, Igor Yanovich: "Introducing evaluation tree logics"
Feb. 5, Chris Barker colloquium at Rutgers: "Free choice permission as resource sensitive reasoning"
Feb. 12, 10am, Mike Solomon on indefinites
Feb. 19, 10am, Dan Lassiter on gradable modals
Feb. 26, 1:30pm, Katrina Przyjemski: "The Lewis semantics for dream reports: an impossible dream"
Mar. 5, 10am, Dan Lassiter on quantity implicatures and Geurts's new book

For the schedule after the Spring break, see updates here.

The brown bag schedule for Spring 2010 is... (updated, 2/18/10)

Feb 25: Tom Leu (Yale University) (12:00 PM in the Syntax/Semantics Lab)
Note Special Time & Place!

March 5: Sophia Malamud (Brandeis)

April. 2: Adam Szczegielniak (Warsaw University)

April. 9: Jason Kandybowicz (Swarthmore)

April 23: Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London)

Claire Bowern, Yale, will give a talk entitled "Novel Object Naming: Report on a Psycholinguistic Experience in the Field". Details:

February 23rd
2-3:15
Room 104
10 Washington Place

Chris Barker will be one of the invited speakers at the Chicago Linguistic Society's annual meeting. He is speaking at the parasession on "Re-evaluating the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface".

Alec Marantz, Liina Pylkkänen and David Poeppel have been awarded a $9 million research award from the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute to establish the Neuroscience of Language Lab (NeLLab) at NYU AD. A new state-of-the-art MEG laboratory should be operational in Abu Dhabi by the spring of 2011.

This Thursday, we are kicking off our semester of Syntax Brown Bag at a special place and a special time. Tom Leu of Yale University will be giving a talk in the Syntax-Semantics lab on the 4th Floor of 10 Washington Place at 12:00 PM. Come by for some snacks and syntax!

Date: Thursday, Feb. 25
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Place: 10 Washington Place, 4th Floor

Generalized x-to-C in Germanic

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