Past Events

  • 2024 Mar 28

    Natasha Thalluri presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

    You can find the details of Natasha work below:

    Exploring the typology of iconic contributions

    In this talk, I present two papers that discuss the gradience in the at-issueness of iconic contributions (Schlenker 2023) and (Steinbach 2023). It has been observed that co-speech gestures are a case of the interplay between speech, which contributes at-issue content, and gesture, which contributes non-at issue content. However, in the case of co-sign gestures, it seems to be the case that iconic content is more at-issue by virtue of being in the same...

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  • 2024 Mar 21

    Jack Rabinovitch presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

    Here is the details of Jack's work:

     

    What Did I Tell You? Designing Surveys to Collect Cross-Linguistic Data on Speech Reports 

     In this talk, I present the main driving question behind my dissertation: in speech reports, what are the possible semantic contributions of embedded clauses, and how does the (morpho-syntactic) form of the embedded clause affect these contributions? Answering such a question requires a rigorous way of comparing the meanings of speech reports cross-linguistically. In this talk, I propose one...

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  • 2024 Feb 01

    Irene Canudas presents

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

    The summary of Irene's work:

    `The world is a complex, continuous experience, but in language and thought, we simplify this stream into events, and we categorize them by similarities, such as their participants. Where do these categorizations come from?

    In this presentation, I will introduce a project centered around thematic roles from a psychological perspective. I will present a study designed to explore whether the salience that certain thematic roles exhibit in language aligns with a psychological or perceptual saliency of such roles. I will discuss the...

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  • 2024 Jan 25

    Practice talks for NELS

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow Street, Room 420

    Yağmur Sağ and Tanya Bondarenko & Patrick Elliott will present their NELS talks. 

    Yağmur's talk:

    Fake Mass Nouns and Associative Plurality

    A significant debate surrounds the count vs. mass distinction, with theories seeking to capture variation while maintaining a universal logical basis (Link 1983; Rothstein 2010; Schwarzschild 2011; Grimm 2012, a.o.). One aspect of variation involves “fake mass nouns”, which are ontologically count but mimic mass nouns by resisting pluralization and direct combination with numerals. This study...

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  • 2023 Nov 30

    Anastasia Tsilia, Hayley Ross

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    2 Arrow, Room 420

    Title of Anastasia's talk: How does negation interact with the iconic use of space?

    Abstract: In this talk we will ask how negation, and negative meanings more in general, interact with iconic co-speech gestures. We will focus on depictive (Davidson, 2023) as well as diagrammatic-like iconicity (Tsilia and Davidson, forthcoming), while we will also compare the behaviour of iconic co-speech gestures with that of iconic loci in ASL. Theories differ in their predictions with Ebert and Ebert (2014) predicting iconic co-speech gestures to be...

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