Huge congratulations to Ph.D. student Danielle Dionne, who won ‘Best Lightning Talk’ at the Web Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (hosted by Brandeis this summer, in lieu of NASSLLI). She presented her research on cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics, focussing on what happens when one language lacks a simple, one-word equivalent for a single […]
We are very lucky to have BU Ph.D. student Ying Gong working with us this summer. She will be concentrating on degree abstraction especially in Mandarin.
We are thrilled to be welcoming Tomiris Kaumenova to our group for the summer. She will be investigating degree abstraction in Mooré and Ende. Congratulations to Tomiris and to us!
Our large cross-linguistic study on the interpretation of quantity superlatives has officially been accepted for publication at Language! We are very excited. The paper, entitled Universals in Superlative Semantics, and authored by Elizabeth Coppock, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, and Golsa Nouri-Hosseini, reports on the results of a broad cross-linguistic study on the semantics of quantity words such […]
Danielle Dionne and Elizabeth Coppock have had their abstract accepted as a poster at the very first Experiments in Linguistic Meaning conference, to be held in Philadelphia. The title of the submission is: Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature From one of the reviews: “This poster is NOT about tattoos, much […]
Danielle Dionne presented her fascinating research on cross-linguistic pragmatic differences at the LSA conference in New Orleans! The slides are available here.
Alex Acosta has received an award through UROP to pursue an original research project on polarity particles. Specifically, he will be investigating cases where “yeah” and “no” co-occur, as in: “Yeah no, I agree”.
Anastasiia Tatlubaeva received a UROP award for Fall 2019! She will be studying superlatives in Slavic, especially the morphosyntax of universal standards in superlative constructions in Russian (vsekh vs. vsego).
Danielle Dionne and Elizabeth Coppock submitted an abstract for the Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, January 2020 and it was ACCEPTED as a TALK! Go us! We will be presenting in the Experimental Pragmatics session on Sunday January 5th, 11am-12:30pm. The title of our talk is: “Cross-linguistic pragmatic differences as a […]
A paper by Elizabeth Coppock, entitled “Most vs. the most in languages where the more means most”, has just appeared in a volume entitled Definiteness Across Languages, published by Language Science Press.