{"id":5,"date":"2018-05-31T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/linguistic-semantics-lab-lislab\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:01:37","slug":"linguistic-semantics-lab-lislab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic Semantics Lab (LiSLab)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2018\/05\/4-butterflies.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" width=\"178\" height=\"117\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Linguistic Semantics Lab (LiSLab) at Boston University!<\/p>\n<p>Directed\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/people\/coppock\">Asst. Prof. Elizabeth (&#8220;Liz&#8221;) Coppock<\/a>, LiSLab is dedicated to the study of foundational questions in semantic\/pragmatic theory through empirically rich studies of diverse languages. Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">the inventory of composition rules (giving the meaning of the whole from the meanings of the parts) in natural languages (e.g. binary predicate conjunction)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">arithmetic in the ontological foundations of natural language semantics (including multiplication and division)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">the potential role of sequences in the underlying ontology for a semantics of natural language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We use a variety of methods, including targeted comparative fieldwork across a broad sample of languages, in-depth field studies of particular languages, corpus-based methods, and experimental methods.<\/p>\n<p>The lab is now located in Room 131 at 111 Cummington Mall (inside the linguistics department). It was set up for in-person fieldwork interviews with one or two consultants, remote fieldwork, traditional psychology-style experiments with in-person participants at a computer, private study\/work, and small group meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/LiSLab-logo-on-office-pic-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/LiSLab-logo-on-office-pic-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/LiSLab-logo-on-office-pic-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/LiSLab-logo-on-office-pic-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/LiSLab-logo-on-office-pic-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click on the tabs above.<\/p>\n<p>A list of publications (co-)authored by Elizabeth Coppock can be found on her <a href=\"http:\/\/eecoppock.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Linguistic Semantics Lab (LiSLab) at Boston University! Directed\u00a0by Asst. Prof. Elizabeth (&#8220;Liz&#8221;) Coppock, LiSLab is dedicated to the study of foundational questions in semantic\/pragmatic theory through empirically rich studies of diverse languages. Examples include: the inventory of composition rules (giving the meaning of the whole from the meanings of the parts) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}