{"id":209,"date":"2018-12-21T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=209"},"modified":"2020-08-31T00:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:27:54","slug":"pamela-sugrue-presents-her-research-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2018\/12\/21\/pamela-sugrue-presents-her-research-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Sugrue presents her research in Sweden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LiSLab undergraduate Pamela Sugrue did us proud this December, presenting her work at a workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sprak.gu.se\/forskning\/konferenser\/fieldwork--methods-and-theory\">Fieldwork: Methods and Theory<\/a>&#8220;, held at the University of Gothenburg 13-14 December, 2018. Her talk, entitled &#8220;A method for detecting superlative interpretations of positive adjectives&#8221;, addresses what to make of the situation where, in a fieldwork setting, the consultant translates superlative-form adjectives using positive-form predicates. Does this mean that the positive form has a superlative interpretation, as Vera Hohaus argued for Samoan? Pamela&#8217;s fieldwork showed that Swahili does not pattern like Samoan, where positive forms have a superlative interpretation, and went further to establish that the positive form is not even ambiguous between a positive interpretation and a superlative one, building on experimental literature on scale structure.<\/p>\n<p>The talk was very well-received and she acquired a new &#8220;Swedish mother&#8221;, her host, shown in the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LiSLab undergraduate Pamela Sugrue did us proud this December, presenting her work at a workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden entitled &#8220;Fieldwork: Methods and Theory&#8221;, held at the University of Gothenburg 13-14 December, 2018. Her talk, entitled &#8220;A method for detecting superlative interpretations of positive adjectives&#8221;, addresses what to make of the situation where, in a fieldwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}