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
Elias Ganem’s summer UROP project was highly ranked by the evaluation committee, qualifying him for a UROP Humanities Scholars Award. This award provides $500 in student supplies and/or travel support for him, in addition to $1000 in research funding for the lab. Go Eli!
Boston University’s UROP program has generously agreed to fund two exciting summer projects! Elias Ganem: Cross-linguistic experimental investigations of fragile superlative readings In this project, we will carry out experiments probing the meaning of proportional quantifiers such as “most” in several different languages. The goal is to determine whether the “fragile superlative reading” that has been […]