LiSLab Tea

What

LiSLab Tea is a talk series on issues related to fundamental questions in semantic/pragmatic theory. Drinking tea during the session is encouraged.

When and where

Weekly on Tuesdays 2:15-3:15pm

Location: BU Linguistics Collaboration Room 2 (Room 147A)
Remote participants are welcome to join on Zoom so long as they simultaneously indulge in a cup of tea.

Schedule for Spring 2026

Date                                Title Speaker(s)
Jan 27 Inaugural session + What I did on my sabbatical
(Or: “Unifying dependent-indefinite and independent-universal reduplicated numerals in Newar”)
Elizabeth Coppock
Feb 3 Voice-mismatch reciprocals in Indonesian as binary predicate conjunction Elizabeth Coppock, Romi Hill, and Neil Myler
Feb 10 Ersu degree constructions (dissertation update) Ying Gong
Feb 17 (T) No talk due to BU Monday — meeting shifted to Thursday
Feb 19 (R) An Agreement-interpretation puzzle concerning Indo-European fraction partitives Cooper Roberts (MIT)
Feb 24 Reanalysis of the not-at-issue entailment of the Thai passive morpheme thuuk Danutham Worapipat
Mar 3 Polydefinites in Greek Vasilis Michos
Mar 10 No meeting due to spring break
Mar 17
Mar 24
Mar 31
Apr 7
Apr 14
Apr 21
Apr 28