The next PSU Morpho-Syn Syndicate Research Group talk will be given by Dr. Florian Schäfer (HU-Berlin). The title will be Anticausatives as weak scalar expressions: evidence from French, German and English. If you wish to attend and you’re not in the mailing list, please email Mike Putnam and ask to be sent the link. Abstract…

CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Lecture Series: Lecturer: Roumyana Pancheva (UC Santa Cruz) Title: The syntax and semantics of comparison Date & time: March 26, 27, and 29 2024, 12.30–15.30 (Tue-Wed), 10.00–13.00 (Fri) Participation: free Location (in person): KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven Campus, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, room LETT 05.30 (Tue), LETT 00.18…

The next GLOWing lecture will be given by  Viola Schmitt, who will discuss with Marcel den Dikken on what is exciting about Semantics on March 15, 15:00 CET (10:00 EST, 14:00 BST, 19:30 IST – note the daylight savings change mismatch!) The Zoom-link for the lecture will be distributed to all GLOW members via e-mail a day before the lecture. If…

On 10-11 July 2023, the ERC ROCKY project will hold its final workshop. Attenders who would like to join for lunch, please write Yoad Winter by 1 July. Program Monday, 10 July 2023 09:00-09:15 Reception and opening Session 1 – experimental semantics 09:15-10:00 James Hampton: Long blue coats and Large dark glasses: Conjunctions of unidimensional vague adjectives…

Imke Kruitwagen (Utrecht) will give a talk on December 12, with the title Alternate categorization: a formal-conceptual semantics of reciprocal alternations All invited! Abstract In this talk, we present an experimental study that investigates how the different forms of a reciprocal verbs are connected to each other. Reciprocal verbs as hug, fight and collide alternate between a unary collective form…