Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock have published an article in Natural Language Semantics showing the existence of degree abstraction in Mandarin. Could degree abstraction actually be a universal feature of natural language?? Even if not, we have some rock-solid arguments that degree abstraction exists in Mandarin despite previous claims to the contrary. Officially published version […]
Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock’s joint work on degree abstraction in Mandarin, Is Degree Abstraction a Parameter or a Universal? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese will appear in Natural Language Semantics! Abstract: Mandarin Chinese, along with Japanese, Yoruba, Moore, and Samoan, has been argued to lack ‘degree abstraction’, a configuration at LF involving lambda abstraction over […]
Ying Gong and Elizabeth Coppock will present a talk on the degree system of Moore (a Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso) at the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55) in Montreal in May 2024. Abstract:
Danielle Dionne and Elizabeth Coppock have published a paper in Glossa Psycholinguistics entitled “Complexity vs. salience of alternatives in implicature: A cross-linguistic investigation”. See it live and open access here! https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gh7r8g7
Two of our amazing PhD students presented at the 51st Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden: Okrah Oppong, “Possession and inalienability In Ɔkere” Ousmane Cisse, “Reduplicated Distributivity and its interaction with negation and aspect in Mandinka” https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/08/colloquium-on-african-languages-and-linguistics-2022
Ying Gong and Andre Batchelder-Schwab have received funding for a project, titled “Fieldwork on Ersu and Yi language in Southwest China” from the East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC), with the support of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCKF). This fieldwork focuses on two under-studied Tibeto-Burman languages–Ersu (a Qiangic language) and Nuosu Yi (a Lolo-Burmese language)–which […]
Professor Coppock’s contribution to a special volume of Glossa on “non-conservativity with precise proportions” edited by Uli Sauerland and Robert Pasternak is now out! Although “percent” got famous for its non-conservative uses as in “The committee hired 30% WOMEN”, Coppock argues that we should approach the analysis of “percent” via simpler, predicative cases like “The […]
Just out in Linguistics and Philosophy: Modified numerals: Two routes to ignorance by Alexandre Cremers, Elizabeth Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen Abstract: Modified numerals, such as at least three and more than five, are known to sometimes give rise to ignorance inferences. However, there is disagreement in the literature regarding the nature of these […]
Danielle Dionne & Elizabeth Coppock published “Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature” in the first-ever volume of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning! Read it here: Cite as: Dionne, Danielle and Elizabeth Coppock (2021). Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature. In Andrea Beltrama, Florian Schwarz, and Anna Papafragou (eds.), […]
When police officers ask drivers to open the trunk, is a “yes” answer a signal of voluntary consent? Our experiment suggests that it’s not. Watch our 3-minute lightning talk! This is for poster presented by Marina Weinstein, Danielle Dionne, Nathaniel Graham, Dylan Pato, and Elizabeth Coppock on June 26th at LMC Workshop ‘MK40: Common Knowledge, […]