On our next meeting, Matthew Mandelkern (Oxford) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster U.) will present their recent paper: “We’ve discovered that projection is asymmetric (and it is!)” – joint work with Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz, to appear in Linguistics & Philosophy. Link to paper: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0776/Discovered.pdf Abstract: Is the mechanism behind presupposition projection and filtering fundamentally asymmetric or symmetric?…

Have you ever wondered what presuppositions in linguistics are about? Now there is a chance to study the topic in a group of other interested researchers at the UiL OTS. The idea is to have an informal forum where interested UiL OTSers could carry out a free discussion on topics that are relevant to all…

On Monday 10 December Renato Miguel Basso and Giada Palmieri will give a ROCKY lecture with the title When “se” is not needed: lexical reciprocity and reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese.  Abstract Many Romance languages use items like “se” (French) or “si” (Italian) to express reflexivity or reciprocity. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is another Romance language where the…

We are happy to announce that UiL-OTS will host two LUSH talks: On Wednesday, November 21, Miguel Santin (University of Groningen) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. Date: Wednesday, November 21, 11:00 – 12:30 Location: Utrecht, Trans 10, room 0.19 (A.W. de Grootkamer) Speaker: Miguel Santin (University of Groningen, https://www.rug.nl/staff/miguel.santin/) Title: Means and results:…

We are happy to announce that on Monday, October 22, Jos Tellings (UiL OTS, Utrecht University) will give a LUSH talk in Utrecht. LUSH is short for Leiden-Utrecht Semantic Happenings, and these talks are aimed at everyone (so including RMA students) with a keen interest in semantics. We hope for a full house! Date: Monday,…