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 | |
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