Joint experimental work with Helena Aparicio on the pragmatics and processing of Haddock Descriptions containing gradable modifiers (e.g. “the rabbit in the big/bigger hat”) was presented at three venues recently: – the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference – XPRAG – XPRAG-ADJ
Elizabeth Coppock has just returned from Potsdam, Germany where she gave a keynote address at the International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian concerning object agreement. Prior to that, she was in Utrecht for a dissertation defense, where she presented new experimental results on modified numerals. Joint work with Helena Aparicio and Roger Levy on […]
The Hariri Computing Institute has generously granted seed funding to start a project entitled “Bridging linguistic and visual knowledge through Visual Genome”. The PIs are Elizabeth Coppock (Linguistics) and Derry Wijaya (Computer Science). Three students will be working on the project this summer: Danielle Dionne, Linguistics Ph.D. student Elias Ganem, BA in Linguistics ’19 Nathanial […]
We presented two talks at the DGfS Sorting Out Definiteness workshop, held March 6-8 in Bremen. Elizabeth Coppock presented a keynote address on definite comparatives Miriam Yifrach and Elizabeth Coppock presented joint work on the syntax and semantics of the definiteness markers in Turoyo, based on Miriam’s fieldwork carried out over the summer of 2018.
LiSLab undergraduate Pamela Sugrue did us proud this December, presenting her work at a workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden entitled “Fieldwork: Methods and Theory”, held at the University of Gothenburg 13-14 December, 2018. Her talk, entitled “A method for detecting superlative interpretations of positive adjectives”, addresses what to make of the situation where, in a fieldwork […]
LiSLab is excited to welcome Varun Malikayil, a Junior in Computer Engineering, and Pamela Sugrue, senior in Linguistics, who have both won UROP awards for fall 2018! Varun will be working on an eye-tracking study involving complex noun phrases, and Pamela will be working on experimental and field methods for studying gradable adjectives. Congrats and […]
2018 Summer UROP student Miriam Yifrach will have an opportunity present her findings at a workshop entitled Sorting Out Definiteness, to take place in Bremen in March 2019. Go Miriam!
Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Elizabeth Coppock will be presented a paper entitled “No individual comparison in Navajo: Evidence from quantificational standards” at the 2019 LSA Meeting in New York!
In August 2018, Elizabeth Coppock will be a keynote speaker at Language in Quantity and Thought, a workshop to take place in conjunction with ESSLLI 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She will present her joint work with Eli Ganem on verification strategies for proportional quantifiers.
Elizabeth Coppock and Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten had an opportunity to present their work on quantity superlatives at SALT 28, right across the river at MIT. Our poster was rather pretty if we may say so ourselves. Download it here: SALT2018Poster