A paper by Elizabeth Coppock has been published in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30: Title: Unifying mereological and arithmetic division Abstract: This paper focuses on the Hungarian suffix –nként, which co-lexifies arithmetic division and mereological division. It is first established that –nként, like per, expresses the notion of division (quotient) in the arithmetic sense. This observation […]
Elizabeth Coppock and Dylan Bumford presented a poster entitled “Pluractional adverbials as incremental quantifiers” at SALT 32 in Buenos Aires in July 2026. Poster available for download here. Abstract: Quantifier-internal readings of new and different, as in Every day there is a different problem, are licensed only by a small class of quantifiers, which Bumford […]
Huge congratulations to Ying Gong, who successfully defended her excellent dissertation, “Gradability puzzles in Ersu: Evaluativity, Markedness, and Directional Morphemes” on July 9, 2026. Abstract: This dissertation investigates the semantics of gradable predicates in Ersu, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language. It focuses on two main puzzles. The first puzzle concerns the morpheme ya- and its […]
At the epic SULA-TripleA 2026 conference, bringing together Semanticists who work on Understudied Languages of the Americas and semanticists who work on languages of Africa Asia, and Austronesia, Elizabeth Coppock presented a paper entitled “Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal numeral reduplication in Newar”. Abstract: This paper presents new fieldwork data on reduplicated numerals in Newar (a.k.a. […]
At the 2026 Princeton-Rutgers Semantics Workshop, Elizabeth Coppock presented commentary on Hans Kamp’s paper on Russell’s Ambiguity. Abstract: There are three main strategies that have been proposed for deriving the ambiguity in Russell’s famous example, where a guest says to the touchy owner of a yacht, I thought your yacht was longer than it is (to which […]
A poster entitled “Voice-mismatch reciprocals in Indonesian and binary predicate conjunction” by Elizabeth Coppock, Romi Hill and Neil Myler will be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 2026. Abstract: Our paper focuses on a phenomenon in Indonesian we call voice-mismatch reciprocals. For example, Ani dan Ani jimpit-men-jimpit means `Ani and Ana pinched […]
A talk entitled “Unifying dependent and independent numeral reduplication in Newar” was presented by Elizabeth Coppock at the University of Buenos Aires, December 17, 2025. Abstract: Reduplicated numerals in Newar (to which matching numeral classifiers affix), as in cha-mha cha-mha nyaa `one-clf.anim one clf.anim fish’, like reduplicated numerals in languages where they have already been studied, can […]
Sinn und Bedeutung 30 was held at the University of Frankfurt in September 2025. Professor Coppock presented on Friday. Title: Unifying arithmetic and mereological division. Abstract here. A longer version of the talk was presented at the University of Chicago in October. Slides here.
So there I was, collecting data on reduplicated numerals in Newar, with Dipak Tuladhar’s very generous help in introducing me to Newar speakers, when I got a text from a friend of mine who has colleagues in Nepal, warning me that WhatsApp would soon stop working at midnight that night. I went to the hotel […]
To learn about reduplicated numerals, I decided to use a setup with a Google Slides document with pre-loaded sentences and images that we could type into. I recorded the screen on the laptop and filmed the session using an iPad. Here is a shot from the iPad, with Riden Maharjen and Dipak Tuladhar. To […]