Author: Elizabeth Coppock

Keynote at “Language in Quantity and Thought”

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.

Poster at SALT 28 @ MIT

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

UROP Humanities Scholars Award to Elias Ganem

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!

UROP awards to Elias Ganem and Miriam Yifrach

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 […]