Unless otherwise noted, all talks will take place on Friday from 1.30-3pm in Room 103 of 10 Washington Place. See the Brown Bag website for details and updates.

February 3rd- Jim Wood (NYU)
February 10th- Omer Preminger (Harvard/MIT)
March 2nd- Jeffrey Watumull (University of Cambridge/MIT)
March 19th- Jessica Coon (McGill) (Special Time: Monday, 12.30-2pm)
March 23rd- Meera Saeed Al Kaabi (NYU)
April 6th- Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
May 4th- Gisli Har∂arson (UConn)

Jim Wood reports that he will be giving a couple of talks at Lund University (see the abstract and handout here) on the 30th of November, and at Stuttgart the week after that. The title of the Lund talk is "Figure reflexives and other complex predicates."

The NYU Colloquium Series continues this Friday, Nov. 18 with a talk by Norvin Richards (MIT) at 4pm in Room 104 of 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract of the talk are below.

EPP as a Metrical Requirement

In this talk I will claim that an affix must universally have material with metrical structure in the direction of affixation (that is, suffixes must be preceded by metrical structure, and prefixes must be followed by it). One consequence of this requirement is the classic EPP; once we know the distribution of affixes in the verb of a language, and the rules for placement of stress in the verb, we know whether the language will exhibit EPP effects.

Stephanie Harves and Richie Kayne received the Chiasmus of the Month award for their paper Having Need and Needing Have (to appear in Linguistic Inquiry, 43:1, 2012).

Despite the name, this prestigious prize apparently does not get awarded every month, so double congratulations, Stephanie and Richie!

The NYU Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag Series continues today with two special talks: one by Asaf Bachrach (CNRS Paris 8), at 12:00pm, and one by Ane Berro (University of the Basque Country), at 1:30pm. Both take place in Room 103 of 10 Washington Place. The abstracts and titles are below. All are welcome!

Paul Portner is speaking about "Clause types in context" in the Semantics Group at 1:30pm on Friday, Oct 28.

Roger Levy will give a colloquium talk this Friday, Oct. 21, at 4pm, in Room 104, 10 Washington Pl.

Title: Probabilistic Knowledge and Uncertain Input in Rational Human Sentence Comprehension

Abstract:

On Friday, Oct. 14, Tricia Irwin is giving a Syntax Colloquium at Yale entitled "Totally high: Drama SO and the distribution of a speaker-oriented adverb". Here is the abstract:

A relatively new construction in colloquial English contains the obligatorily pitch-accented word so, followed by a constituent that is not of the syntactic category that so normally modifies. I refer to this use of so as “Drama SO”:

(1) Drama SO
a. Chris is SO next in line. (so + PP) (Potts, 2004:130)
b. Jamie SO dates that type of guy. (so + VP)

Focusing on data such as (1b), I describe the distribution of Drama SO and propose a syntactic and informal semantic analysis of it. So is analyzed as a degree word that modifies the speaker-oriented adverb totally, which can be silent or pronounced. On this analysis, all occurrences of so in Drama SO are really [SO TOTALLY], and the word so is simply a degree modifier of totally. I also show that speaker-oriented totally has specific scopal properties: it cannot be scoped over by a truthconditional operator like negation. In this way, totally acts like an evidential or epistemic modal (see e.g. von Fintel and Gillies’s (2010) on must). These properties explain some interesting facts about the distribution of Drama SO.

The editors of the Philosopher's Annual select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year. We are delighted to announce that the 2010 selection contains three NYU philosophers, our very own Global Distinguished Professor Philippe Schlenker among them. See the full selection and their articles here.

“Attention and Mental Paint”
Ned Block
from Philosophical Issues 20 (2010), 23-63

“Towards a Theory of Part”
Kit Fine
from Journal of Philosophy 107 (2010), 559-589

“Presuppositions and Local Contexts”
Philippe Schlenker
from Mind 119 (2010), 377-391

We're pleased to announce that the Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag, our main forum for new research in these areas from within the department and from other departments nearby, will be convening once again this semester. Talks take place on Fridays from 1.30-3pm, in room 103 of 10 Washington Place.

The following page will always be kept up-to-date directly by the BB organizers:
https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyusyntaxbrownbag/ . Keep an eye on it.

The schedule so far is as follows.

September 23rd- Mark Baltin

October 7th- TBA
October 14th-TBA
October 21st- Jorge Lopez Cortina

November 4th- TBA

December 2nd-David Basilico
December 9th- Txuss Martin

Two of the upcoming talks in the Semantics Group are,

Sept. 30, 1:30pm, Chris Barker on actions
Oct. 28, 1:30pm, Paul Portner (Georgetown), TBA

The preliminary schedule of the rest of the semester is posted here. We typically do not announce the individual talks on the blog. Please keep an eye on the schedule if you are interested in participating. Talks usually start at 10:30am (unlike the above two). Presentations are interleaved with discussion; meetings tend to last 2hrs or sometimes longer.

Salvador Mascarenhas will speak about "Licensing by modification: the case of positive polarity pronouns," and Chris Barker will be one of the invited speakers, at Sinn und Bedeutung 16, Utrecht, September 6-8.

Anna Szabolcsi gave a talk entitled "Each what? Individual-key and event-key distributors" at the Quantification Workshop, Stuttgart, July 15.

Jim Wood's paper "Stylistic Fronting in spoken Icelandic relatives" has just been published in the Nordic Journal of Linguistics. Read it here or here!

Anna Szabolcsi is talking about "Compositionality in Quantifier Words" at the International Workshop on the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Taipei, June 17-18.

See this page for more info!

Title: The Case of a Wh-in-situ in a Multiple Wh-Fronting Language

Abstract:

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Title: The Morphosemantics of (Anti-)Causative Alternations

Abstract:

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Title: Weak Crossover, Scope, and Information Structure

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Will Starr (NYU Philosophy) is talking about "A preference semantics of imperatives" in the Semantics Group at 11:00am on April 15 (Rm 104). -- See the meeting schedule here.

Dan Lassiter is giving a talk at SALT 21, "Nouwen’s Puzzle and a Scalar Semantics for Obligations, Needs, and Requirements;" and at the ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Projective Meaning, "Presuppositions, Provisos, and Probability."

On Friday, April 1, Stephanie Harves is giving a talk at Pomona College entitled, "On needing and wanting: (a)symmetries in the land of intensional transitives." She is also giving a colloquium talk at Princeton on April 7th entitled, "To have and to need."

See this page for more info.

Title: To call or address? A syntactic distinction in vocative use

Abstract:

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Please note: This brown bag will be at a special time, 12:00-1:30.

Title: Doubling and the syntax of relative clauses

Abstract (.doc)

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Title: V movement to a V-related head and enclisis: a view from finiteness sensitive and Tobler-Mussafia languages

Abstract:

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Title: A constraint on the lexicalization of logical operators

Abstract:

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February 11 - Roni Katzir

February 25 - Mario Mavrogiorgos

March 25 - Poppy Slocum

April 22 - Aviad Eilam (3:00 PM) (NOTE SPECIAL TIME!)

April 29 - Lisa Levinson

Two of our faculty have books in print:

Paul M. Postal, Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, The MIT Press, 2010.

Anna Szabolcsi, Quantification, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The journal Language and Cognitive Processes has a special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of semantics, and it features an article by three NYU linguists:

Pylkkänen, L., Brennan, J. & Bemis, D. K. (2010) Grounding the Cognitive Neuroscience of Semantics in Linguistic Theory. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.527490.

Jim Wood has been awarded a fellowship by the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation. The foundation sponsors literary, scientific, and educational endeavors, and supports graduate students from the USA and the Republic of Iceland. Congratulations, Jim!

James Higginbotham (USC) is giving a talk on "Indexicality and Embedding" at 11:00am on Friday, Jan. 21. Location: Rm. 103 or 104.

Abstract: In this talk I will survey a number of phenomena that show a sensitivity of indexical expressions to embedding. These have sometimes been diagnosed as "monsters" in the technical sense of David Kaplan; but I shall, as in published and forthcoming work, interpret them as anaphoric phenomena of a special kind, of which the canonical example is Sequence of Tense. Of particular interest is the "de se" so-called, where I will take issue with the point of view derived from the important work of David Lewis. I will also consider some distinctions within that category itself, and, contrary to Lewis, argue for a robust sense of de re belief and desire. On the side of comparative semantics, examples from Korean, Scots English, and elsewhere in the literature will underscore the variety of parametric differences available cross-linguistically.

See this page for details.

Title: Even More on The Anaphor Agreement Affect: When Binding Does Not Agree

Abstract:

David Beaver is giving a colloquium, "Only in New York" at 4:00pm on 12-10-2010.

Abstract: The meaning of exclusives, like only, just, merely, mere, and sole, and their counterparts across languages, is a longstanding puzzle that’s been bothering scholars since the thirteenth century. Yet another puzzle, with its own ever-growing literature, concerns focus sensitivity, whereby intonation affects meaning. The odd thing is that although exclusives provide the paradigmatic examples of focus sensitivity, there has been no previous theory which explains both their meanings and the fact that they are focus sensitive. Until now. I’ll introduce the phenomena and the puzzles from scratch, and offer a solution extending that developed in my 2008 book with Brady Clark "Sense and Sensitivity: How focus determines meaning."

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Title: Bare Nouns

Abstract:

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Title: Reflexives and Antipassives

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Neil Myler will be presenting at the CUNY Syntax Supper on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 pm. The title of his talk is "Light verbs, hidden relatives, and control: The case of derived nominals."

Abstract:

This talk will address the question of why some derived nominals formed from control verbs allow control into a to-infinitive, while others do not. A typical paradigm is given in (1)-(2).

(1) a. John attempted to play football

b. John hated to play football

(2) a. John’s attempt to play football

b. *John’s hatred to play football

I will argue that this distinction, along with certain well-known restrictions on raising and control from derived nominals into to-infinitives, receives a natural account under the following assumptions: (a.) derived nominals as a default never allow control or raising from a to-infinitive, and (b.) derived nominals that seem to allow control are actually instances of a hidden relative clause containing a silent light verb corresponding to make, have or give. Assumption (b.) will be supported by the novel observation that all derived nominals that allow control into to-infinitives are also allowed to appear in light verb constructions, whereas those that disallow such control are unable to appear in light verb constructions (so, one can make an attempt but not *have/make/give (a) hatred). Assumption (a.) is derived if nominalizing derivational morphemes are functional heads with nominal features which select a verbal substructure (following Marantz (1998), Alexiadou (2009) and Borer (2009) amongst others) and if, following Kayne (1999/2000), infinitival to is introduced as a functional head above the matrix vP level and is related to the infinitival verb by movement. In the default case, nominalization will make it impossible for infinitive to to be introduced, causing the embedded non-finite verb to go unlicensed and crashing the derivation. However, those derived nominals that are compatible with light verbs allow for the merger of a silent light verb, ‘reverbalizing’ the structure and allowing to to be introduced. Following Collins (2006), a relative clause derivation then ensues, with genitive ‘s in example (2) being introduced among the nominal projections above the relative C head. The impossibility of raising from a to-infinitive into a derived nominal, (known since Chomsky (1970:205)- see example (3)) will be argued to follow from the impossibility of raising the would-be subject from its theta-position past the C-head into a nominal Case position.

(3) a. John is likely to leave

b. *John’s likelihood to leave

Title: The indirect licensing of DP-internal adjectival agreement: strong and weak adjectival inflection in Germanic

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Title: Object movement (a)symmetries in British English dialects

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Title: Typology of non-standard negation in simple declarative sentences

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Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale) is going to talk about "Epistemic Comparativism" (joint work with Jonathan Schaffer, ANU) in the semantics group on Oct. 29, Friday, at 11:00am in Rm. 103.

See this page for more information.

Title: Having-for: the case of the Russian modal possessive and of English get

Abstract:

Oct. 1 11am Jim Wood, The unintentional causer in Icelandic
Oct. 8 2:00pm Inna Livitz & Salvador Mascarenhas, Semantic aspects of having-for in Russian modal possessives and English "get"
Oct. 15 12:30 pm Dan Lassiter TBA

On Oct. 8, Inna & Salvador will discuss the syntactic aspects of the same topics in the Brown Bag series at 11am. (Note the morning/afternoon switch for the two meetings.)

The schedule of the Semantics Group meetings is posted here. Please check for changes and for further meetings.

What a delight, the NELS 41 program! I apologize for not putting all the names in the title of this post, but eight...? Cheers to all the authors and also to the collaborative spirit!

Papers:

The Unintentional Causer in Icelandic
Jim Wood (NYU)

Investigating the Relationship Between Syntactic Structure-Building and Semantic Composition Using MEG
Jonathan Brennan, Liina Pylkkanen (both NYU)

Bound De Re Pronouns and Concept Generators
Simon Charlow (NYU), Yael Sharvit (UConn)

Morphological Effects on the Articulation of English Intervocalic /l/
Sangjin Hwang, Sang-Im Lee, Lisa Davidson (all NYU)

Poster:

Re- Prefixation and Talmy's Parameter
Oana Ciucivara, Jim Wood (both NYU)

Chris Barker's article on Free choice permission as resource-sensitive reasoning has just appeared in the online journal Semantics and Pragmatics, Vol. 3.

Mark Baltin's paper on "The Nonreality of Doubly Filled Comps" (Linguistic Inquiry - Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2010, pp. 331-335) is one of the top 20 most downloaded full-text pdfs in the journal. The list spans some ten years of publication.

"The internal syntax of jeder ‘every’ " by Tom Leu has appeared in Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9. This is an extension of Tom's 2008 NYU dissertation on the internal syntax of determiners.

Three cheers to Violeta Vazquez-Rojas, recipient of a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research award (advisor: Chris Collins). The title of the proposal is "The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases in Tarascan". Tarascan is an indigenous language of Mexico that sheds interesting light on the count/non-count distinction, which is what Violeta is investigating.

A selection of recent articles by Richie Kayne, entitled Comparisons and Contrasts is published by Oxford University Press. Congratulations!

... and, fittingly, some new papers by Liina and colleagues:

Pylkkänen L, Okano K. (2010) The Nature of Abstract Orthographic Codes: Evidence from Masked Priming and Magnetoencephalography. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10793. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010793 here

Dikker S, Rabagliati H, Farmer TA, Pylkkänen L. (2010) Early occipital sensitivity to syntactic category is based on form typicality. Psychological Science 1;21(5):629-34. here

Brennan J, Nir Y, Hasson U, Malach R, Heeger DJ, Pylkkänen L. (2010) Syntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening. Brain and Language. May 14. [Epub ahead of print] here

Brennan, J., Pylkkänen L. (2010) Processing Psych Verbs: Behavioral and MEG Measures of Two Different Types of Semantic Complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690961003616840. here

Cheers to Laziz Nchare and Rahul Balusu (PhD 2009), whose papers have been accepted for presentation at GLOW-in-Asia VIII, Beijing, August 2010.

Nchare & Terzi, Lexicalizing structure crosscategorially
Balusu, OCP effects in Telugu

Dan Lassiter is speaking on "Restrictions on adverbial modification with auxiliary and adjectival modals" in the Syntax Colloquium series at Yale on April 23.

Jim Wood is speaking in the Syntax Colloquium Series at Yale on April 16. The title of his talk is "Title: Singular -st Syncretism and Featural Pied-Piping".

It is an exciting time in the syntax Brown Bag series. We have just finished hearing about Polish relative clauses, and now, this Friday, on April 9th, Jason Kandybowicz will be giving a talking about his work on emphasis in Nupe. Do come by! There will be snacks!

Speaker Jason Kandybowicz
Title The Grammar of Emphasis: A View from Nupe
Date/Time Friday, April 9, 2010 @ 1:30 PM
Place 10 Washington Place, Room 103 (1st Floor)

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Arguments for pseudo-resultative predicates by Lisa Levinson (NYU PhD, 2007) has appeared in the 28/1 issue of Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Cheers, Lisa!

Six of our (neuro-)semanticists are presenting at the Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM) held at IRCS, UPenn, April 10:

Doug Bemis, Evidence for a Domain-General Cognitive Mechanism in the Construction of Basic Linguistic Meaning
Jon Brennan, Teasing apart structure-building and semantic composition during story-reading with MEG
Simon Charlow, Two kinds of de re blocking
Tim Leffel, Continuation semantics for expressives and epithets
Salvador Mascarenhas, Contextual givenness vs. existential quantification
Mike Solomon, Quantifiers, alternatives, and ‘certain’ indefinites

Time: Thursday March 25, 4:00pm
Location: Syntax/Semantics Lounge, 4th floor

Parsing of the second kind
Edward Stabler, UCLA

The first parsing problem is this: given a sequence of pronounced elements (with their stress, intonation, etc), what is the set of grammatical structures pronounced this way? A second kind of analysis is then needed: among those possible structures, which one is (probably) intended in context, how are its morphemes interpreted, and what kind of speech act is being performed? In ordinary conversation, it seems (at first) that both kinds of analysis are effortless and instantaneous, even though the second is typically based on considerations that go well beyond the order and intonation of pronounced elements. Interpretation that includes this second stage is studied by psycholinguists and computational linguists, and is obviously relevant in language acquisition, but it goes beyond grammar as traditionally conceived. But are there really two kinds of analysis here? Focusing on some proposals about the second kind of analysis, the existence of important distinctions will be defended, setting the stage for a reassessment of some recent proposals about stochastic influences, and about semantic and pragmatic properties. It is a familiar fact that certain semantic and pragmatic distinctions can be represented in the form of a language. Could all of them be syntactic, in a relevant sense, in a theory of human language? Some of these questions can be answered easily once they are pinned down.

Anna Szabolcsi is giving one of the invited talks at the Symposium on "Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models" in Riga, Latvia, April 23-25. The program is posted at http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-1150.html.

Three of our semanticists are presenting at Semantics and Linguistics Theory 20 (SALT 20), April 29-May 1, Vancouver:

Papers:

Daniel Lassiter (New York University)
Gradable epistemic modals, probability and scale structure

Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano) and Chris Barker (New York University)
Principles of interdimensional meaning interaction

Poster:

Simon Charlow (New York University)
De re anaphors

See the abstracts at the conference web site.

This Friday, Sophia A. Malamud of Brandeis will be giving a Brown Bag talk on impersonal pronouns. Snacks will be provided.

Date: Friday, Mar. 5
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Place: 10 Washington Place, Room 103 (conference room)

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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".

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.

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.

Dan Lassiter will present his paper "Why symmetry is not a problem for a Gricean theory of scalar implicature" at the conference Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models in Brussels. The talk will be on February 7.

Tricia Irwin will present her paper "Intransitive sentences, argument structure, and the syntax-prosody interface" at WCCFL 28 in Los Angeles. She will be joined by Richie Kayne and Diamandis Gafos, who are the keynote speakers.

Simon Charlow is giving a talk about "De re anaphors" at Ling-Lunch in the Linguistics Department at MIT on March 11.

Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation by Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark, and Mark Steedman appeared in Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 813–821, Singapore, 6-7 August 2009. ACL and AFNLP. Laura is working in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge while finishing her dissertation at NYU.

In May 2007 NYU and CUNY co-hosted an installment of the International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. A selection of the papers have been published by John Benjamins as Volume 11 of the Approaches to Hungarian series. The editors are Marcel den Dikken and Robert Vago.

The 2010 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America features no fewer than nine talks by NYU linguists:

Adam Buchwald, (New York University), Michelle Miozzo (University of Cambridge/Johns Hopkins University): Evidence for language-internal cluster well-formedness differences

Oana Savescu Ciucivara (New York University): When syncretism meets word order: The case of Romanian postverbal clitics

Jason Shaw (New York University): Linguistic influences on the temporal organization of words

Tuuli Adams (New York University): The effect of word learning and fluent speech listening on second language segmentation

Kara Becker (New York University): The current state of bought-raising on Manhattan's Lower East Side: Who uses c[ɔ]ffee t[ɔ]lk?

Lisa Levinson (Oakland University, NYU Ph.D. 2007), Jonathan Brennan (New York University): The behavioral and neural correlates of silent causativity in verbs

Marcos Rohena-Madrazo (New York University): Perceptual assimilation of non-native obstruent voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners

Lisa Davidson (New York University), Jason Shaw (New York University): Perceptual illusions in non-native clusters are context-dependent

Cara Shousterman (New York University), Renee Blake (New York University): Ethnic and linguistic diversity within AAE: The case of black New Yorkers and postvocalic /r/

Plus, Elika Bergelson, an NYU BA alum currently at UPenn Psychology, is giving a talk:

Elika Bergelson (University of Pennsylvania), Jennifer Merickel (University of Rochester), William Idsardi (University of Maryland), Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland): Structural biases in phonology: Evidence from artificial language learning in adults

Anna Szabolcsi's book "Quantification" is set to appear in the Research Surveys in Linguistics series by Cambridge University Press. You can see the table of contents and the introduction here [PDF].

This year's mini-conference (hitherto CUNY/SUNY/NYU, henceforth SunyYaleNyuCuny = SYNC) is going to take place on December 5th at Yale. The alumnus keynote speaker is David Pesetsky. NYU speakers are Dan Lassiter, Oana Savescu, and Jim Wood. The link to the program and other relevant info is here.

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.

Mike Solomon is giving a talk on "Partitives and the semantics of same" at Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna, Sept. 28-30, 2009.

Anna Szabolcsi is giving a talk entitled "Certain verbs are syntactically explicit quantifiers" at Logic, Language, Mathematics, a philosophy conference in memory of Imre Ruzsa, Sept. 17-19, 2009, Budapest.

Katrin Scultz, from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation
at the University of Amsterdam, will give a talk entitled "If you wiggle A, then B will change. On causal conditionals - again". Further details:

Tuesday May 5th
at 11:00am
in the seminar room of the Linguistics department.

Jeroen Groenendijk will be giving a talk on Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics this Wednesday, 29 April, 2009, Linguistics department, 7th floor, 726
Broadway, New York, at 12:00 Noon.

**Please note that the starting time is noon.**

Chris Barker is going to teach a six-week course in semantics at the 2009 LSA Linguistic Institute (UC Berkeley).

We are happy to announce that Stephanie Harves will be joining the faculty of the departments of Linguistics and Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU beginning Fall 2009.

Chris Tancredi of Keio University has kindly agreed to visit us this Friday and give a version of the talk that he is giving tomorrow at Princeton, entitled "Domains of quantification, rigid designation and modality: The case for multiple models". The abstract is copied below. The talk will be at 1:30PM in the Syntax/Semantics Lab.

Stephanie Harves (Pomona) will be giving a talk "To have and to need in Russian and beyond" on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 9am in the linguistics department conference room.

Asya Pereltsvaig

"The syntax of noun phrases in Russian: Elucidating functional architecture"

Friday January 30, 9am - 10:30am
Linguistics Department Conference Room
726 Broadway, room 701

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