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Posted November 19, 2009

Eytan Zweig in Linguistics and Philosophy

Cheers to Eytan Zweig (PhD January 2008), whose article on "Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature" has just appeared online in Linguistics and Philosophy; read here; doi: 10.1007/s10988-009-9064-3 .

Co-incidentally, Eytan is in town this week, and tomorrow he is giving a talk related to this article in the Semantics Group (10am -- meet at 9:45 for coffee).

As a reminder, the schedule of the Semantics Group presentations is to be found here.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on November 19, 2009 11:18 AM | Permalink

Posted November 13, 2009

Mike Taylor in American Speech

Cheers to Mike Taylor, whose article with David Eddington on "T-glottalization in American English" has just come out in American Speech 84(3): 298-314 (2009).

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on November 13, 2009 9:20 PM | Permalink

Posted November 6, 2009

Kara Becker in Journal of Sociolinguistics

Cheers to Kara Becker, whose article on "/r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side" has appeared in Journal of Sociolinguistics 2009, 13.5: 634-658. Here is the link to the on-line article.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on November 6, 2009 9:48 PM | Permalink

Posted November 5, 2009

Arthur Wang dissertation in syntax

Three cheers to Arthur, who has filed his dissertation entitled "The Microparametric Syntax of Resultatives in Chinese Languages". Committee Co-chairs: Chris Collins and Richard Kayne. Committee Members: Mark Baltin, Alec Marantz and C.-T. James Huang.

The dissertation is posted at Arthur's home page.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on November 5, 2009 10:07 PM | Permalink

Posted October 7, 2009

Dikker, Rabagliati and Pylkkanen to publish in Psychological Science

Cheers to Suzanne, Hugh, and Liina re: the acceptance of this paper in Psychological Science!

Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T. A., & Pylkkänen, L. (in press). Early occipital sensitivity to syntactic category is based on form typicality. Psychological Science.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on October 7, 2009 10:46 PM | Permalink

Posted September 4, 2009

Oana Savescu dissertation on pronominal clitic clusters in Romance

Cheers to Oana Savescu Ciucivara, who has just filed her dissertation entitled "A Syntactic Analysis of Pronominal Clitic Clusters in Romance. The View from Romanian" (chair: Richard Kayne). The dissertation is posted at her home page.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on September 4, 2009 9:10 PM | Permalink

Posted August 31, 2009

Andrea Cattaneo dissertation on Northern Italian Clitics

Cheers to Andrea, who is about to file his dissertation entitled "It is all about clitics: The case of a Northern Italian dialect like Bellinzonese" (co-chaired by Richard Kayne and Cecilia Poletto). It can be downloaded from his home page.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on August 31, 2009 11:27 AM | Permalink

Posted July 12, 2009

Philipp Angermeyer and Erez Levon in Journal of Sociolinguistics

The latest issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics contains a paper by Philipp Angermeyer (PhD 2006) on "Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting" and one by Erez Levon (PhD 2007) on "Dimensions of style: Context, politics and motivation in gay Israeli speech".

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on July 12, 2009 10:55 AM | Permalink

Posted June 18, 2009

Paul Postal's book to be published by MIT Press

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

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on June 18, 2009 7:06 PM | Permalink

Posted June 11, 2009

Compass article by Kara Becker and Libby Coggshall

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.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on June 11, 2009 6:11 PM | Permalink

Posted March 11, 2009

Recent publications by Tom Leu and Chris Barker

Tom Leu, The Internal Syntax of Determiners. PhD Dissertation, 2008. Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik vol. 47.

Chris Barker, Wild Control Operators, Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, 2009, ACM 978-1-60558-379-2/09/01, 152--152.

Chris Barker, Clarity and the grammar of skepticism, 2009, Mind and Language.

Chris Barker, Reconstruction as delayed evaluation. In Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne (eds), 2009, Theory and Evidence in Semantics, CSLI Publications.

Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan, Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding, 2008, Semantics and Pragmatics, 1.1: 1--46.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on March 11, 2009 8:22 PM | Permalink

Posted March 10, 2009

Very recent publications by Jason Shaw, Diamandis Gafos, Kevin Roon, and Maria Gouskova

Jason Shaw, Temporal evidence for syllabic structure in Moroccan Arabic: data and model. Phonology, 2009 [with A. Gafos, P. Hoole,C. Zeroual].

Jason Shaw, Compensatory lengthening via mora preservation in OT-CC: theory and predictions. NELS 38, 2009.

Maria Gouskova and Kevin Roon, Interface Constraints and Frequency in Russian Compound Stress, to appear in the proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 17: The Yale meeting.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on March 10, 2009 10:15 PM | Permalink

Posted March 6, 2009

Recent publications by Richard Kayne

Richard S. Kayne, “Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles”, in R. Freidin, C.P. Otero and M.L. Zubizarreta (eds.) Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 291-321. 2008.

Richard S. Kayne, “Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax” in T. Biberauer (ed.) The Limits of Syntactic Variation, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 175-217. 2008.

Richard S. Kayne, “Some Silent First Person Plurals”, in J.M. Brucart, A. Gavarró and J. Solà (eds.) Merging Features. Computation, Interpretation, and Acquisition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 276-292. 2009.

Richard S. Kayne, “A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation”, in L. Baronian and F. Martineau (eds.) Le français d’un continent à l’autre. Mélanges offerts à Yves Charles Morin, Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, 211-235. 2009.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on March 6, 2009 10:06 PM | Permalink

Recent publications by Lisa Davidson, Diamandis Gafos, Greg Guy, Kevin Roon, and John Singler

Davidson, Lisa and Kevin Roon. 2008. Durational correlates for differentiating consonant sequences in Russian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38:2, 137-165.

Adamantios Gafos, Hoole, P., Roon, K., Zeroual, C. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Detail and Representation, Ed. Cécile Fougeron (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York).

Gregory R. Guy and Ana M.S. Zilles, Sociolingüística Quantitativa: Instrumental de Análise, São Paulo: Parabola Editorial, 2007.

Singler, John Victor. 2008a. [with Silvia Kouwenberg] The handbook of pidgin and creole studies. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Singler, John Victor. 2008b. The sociolinguistic context of creole genesis. In The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, ed. by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler, 332-358. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Singler, John Victor. 2008c. [with Silvia Kouwenberg] Introduction. In The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, ed. by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler, 1-16. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on March 6, 2009 9:42 PM | Permalink

Posted March 4, 2009

Recent publications by Jon Brennan, Suzanne Dikker, Liina Pylkkanen, and Eytan Zweig

Jonathan Brennan, Prepositions in Modern Irish: Agreement and Impoverishment. Proceedings of WCCFL 26, 2008.

Jonathan Brennan, Only Finally. The Proceedings of NELS 37, 2008.

Jon Brennan and Liina Pylkkänen, Processing Events: Behavioral and Neuromagnetic Correlates of Aspectual Coercion. In Brain and Language, 2008.

Suzanne Dikker, Hugh Rabagliati, Liina Pylkkänen, Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex. Cognition doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.008

Suzanne Dikker, Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: redefining relexification, In: Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker & Rosa Salas Paloma (eds.), Hispanisation. The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas (EALT 39). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.

Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (2008). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.006. [pdf]

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Mismatching Meanings in Brain and Behavior. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/4, 712¬738.

Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Introducing Arguments. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [BOOK]

Eytan Zweig & Liina Pylkkänen, (2008). A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802180420.
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Posted by Anna Szabolcsi on March 4, 2009 11:36 PM | Permalink

Posted March 3, 2009

Recent publications by Dan Lassiter, Philippe Schlenker, and Anna Szabolcsi

Dan Lassiter, Semantic Externalism, Language Variation, and Sociolinguistic Accommodation. In Mind and Language 23/5: 607-633. 2008.
Philippe Schlenker, Be Articulate: A Pragmatic Theory of Presupposition Projection. Target article in Theoretical Linguistics, 34, 3: 157-212 (with commentaries by D. Beaver, E. Chemla, D. Fox, E. Krahmer, D. Rothschild, U. Sauerland, and R. van der Sandt), 2008.
Philippe Schlenker, Presupposition Projection: Explanatory Strategies" (replies to commentaries). Theoretical Linguistics 34, 3: 287-316

Anna Szabolcsi, The Effect of NPIs on Inference Verification (with Lewis Bott and Brian McElree) In Journal of Semantics 25/4: 411-450. 2008.

Anna Szabolcsi,Optionality, Scope, and Licensing: An Application of Partially Ordered Categories (with Raffaella Bernardi ). In Journal of Logic, Language and Information 17/3: 237-283. 2008.

Posted by Maria Gouskova on March 3, 2009 9:22 PM | Permalink

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