{"id":685,"date":"2026-01-16T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:12:08","slug":"lislab-tea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/lislab-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"LiSLab Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What<\/h3>\n<p>LiSLab Tea is a talk series on issues related to fundamental questions in semantic\/pragmatic theory. Drinking tea during the session is encouraged.<\/p>\n<h3>When and where<\/h3>\n<p>Weekly on Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Location: BU Linguistics Seminar Room (135)<br \/>\nRemote participants are welcome to join on <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/j\/99739758063?pwd=RlVQNElPdmJ4TXVvNXlmWm4wWGtpUT09\">Zoom<\/a> so long as they simultaneously indulge in a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<h3>Schedule for Fall 2026<\/h3>\n<table cellspacing=\"10\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Date                               <\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Speaker(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sep 22<\/td>\n<td>Welcome session: introductions<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sep 29<\/td>\n<td>Familiarity as a special case of uniqueness<\/td>\n<td>Elizabeth Coppock<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oct 6<\/td>\n<td>Wh-alternatives and focus alternatives for wh-indefinites<\/td>\n<td>Minghui Qiu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Oct 13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #808080;\">No talk due to BU Monday<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oct 20<\/td>\n<td>Polydefinites in Greek with <em>only<\/em> and <em>same<\/em><\/td>\n<td>Vasilis Michos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oct 27<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov 3<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov 10<\/td>\n<td>Th\u00f9uk passives in Thai<\/td>\n<td>Danutham Worapipat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov 17<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov 24<\/td>\n<td>Transparent predicates cannot take opaque arguments<\/td>\n<td>Paul Meisenbichler (MIT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dec 1<\/td>\n<td>Shared relations and the acceptability of bare nouns in Akan<\/td>\n<td>Rebecca Bonney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dec 8<\/td>\n<td>On reduplication and distributivity<\/td>\n<td>Romi Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/blue-and-white-china-4039238_1280-636x422.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/blue-and-white-china-4039238_1280-636x422.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/blue-and-white-china-4039238_1280-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/blue-and-white-china-4039238_1280-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2026\/01\/blue-and-white-china-4039238_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 3:30-4:30pm Location: BU Linguistics Seminar Room (135) Remote participants are welcome to join on Zoom so long as they simultaneously indulge in a cup of tea. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685"}],"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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}