Yasu Sudo will give a talk entitled Implicature priming, inverse preference, and context adaptation on February 13 at 11:00 Abstract (based on joint work with Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli and Richard Breheny) Previous studies that use priming to investigate scalar implicatures (SIs) observe that SIs arise more often after strong primes—priming trials that force readings with…

Marijke de Belder (Utrecht University) will give a talk at the PSU Morpho-Syn Syndicate meeting next Monday, the 30th of January, at 4pm (Utrecht time). The title of the talk is Language-internal variation: Dutch primary compounding Abstract In this talk I discuss variation in Dutch primary compounding. I argue that Dutch has at least three…

The CHAMP (Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes) Workshop will take place at UCL in London on January 20-21. Invited speakers Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen) PROGRAM Day 1 20th January Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement) Zoom Link Meeting ID: 960 1844 7028, Passcode: 025676 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome…

On the 19th of January, Marloes Oomen (UvA) and Floris Roelofsen (UvA) will give an ILS colloquium talk entitled Polar questions in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Abstract Relatively little is known about the way(s) in which polar questions (yes-no questions) are expressed in sign languages. It is often assumed that polar questions are…

On the 27th of January at 2:15 pm Silvia Terenghi will defend her dissertation entitled Missing Person: Structure and change in Romance demonstratives (downloadable here from the 27th). The PhD defense will take place in the Academiegebouw. It can be followed from remote at this link. In the morning of the 27th, there will be a…

On the 23rd of February, Lisa Cheng (Leiden) will give a talk for the SIL, with the title: The “lightness” of verbs and verbalisers More info: https://syntaxif.wp.hum.uu.nl/lisa-cheng-leiden-university-3/

On Monday 12, Heather Newell (UQAM) and Craig Sailor (University of Edinburgh) will give a talk with the title Inclusiveness, the Interface, and the Prosodic Hierarchy. Abstract There is a recurrent debate in the literature over whether computation at the syntax-phonology interface is Direct Reference (can see the syntax) or Indirect Reference (mediated by the…