{"id":27,"date":"2018-03-23T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=27"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:39:45","slug":"urop-awards-to-elias-ganem-and-miriam-yifrach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2018\/03\/23\/urop-awards-to-elias-ganem-and-miriam-yifrach\/","title":{"rendered":"UROP awards to Elias Ganem and Miriam Yifrach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University&#8217;s UROP program has generously agreed to fund two exciting summer projects!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elias Ganem<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Cross-linguistic experimental investigations of fragile superlative readings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In this project, we will\u00a0carry out experiments probing the meaning of proportional quantifiers such as \u201cmost\u201d in several different languages. The goal is to determine whether the \u201cfragile superlative reading\u201d that has been detected for English exists in languages where proportional quantifiers differ from English in their morphological structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miriam Yifrach<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Defining definiteness in Turoyo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In this project, we will carry\u00a0out an investigation of definiteness-marking in Turoyo, an endangered Semitic language, based on interviews with native speakers. The goals are to determine where definiteness-marking lies on the spectrum from \u201cweak\u201d to \u201cstrong&#8221;, and to characterize the circumstances under which definiteness-marking is used in combination with quantificational expressions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University&#8217;s UROP program has generously agreed to fund two exciting summer projects! &nbsp; Elias Ganem:\u00a0Cross-linguistic experimental investigations of fragile superlative readings In this project, we will\u00a0carry out experiments probing the meaning of proportional quantifiers such as \u201cmost\u201d in several different languages. The goal is to determine whether the \u201cfragile superlative reading\u201d that has been [&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\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}