We are happy to announce new CRISSP Seminars and Lecture Series:
- CRISSP Seminar with Andrew Nevins: October 9, 2015
- Lecture Series with Chris Barker: October 14-16, 2015
- CRISSP Seminar with Marcel den Dikken: January 26, 2016
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Marijke De Belder in Ottawa and New York
Marijke De Belder is invited to speak at the workshop Gender, class, and determination (September 18th – September 20th) at Ottawa University. The title of her talk is ‘Noun class markers in Dutch compounds’.
She also presented a talk at the Roots IV workshop at New York University (June 29th – July 2nd): ‘The epenthetic consonant in Dutch diminutives and Spell-Out’.
Marijke De Belder and Jeroen van Craenenbroeck at CGSW
CRISSP member Marijke De Belder will be giving a talk at CGSW30. Jeroen van Craenenbroeck is an invited speaker at the conference.
- Marijke De Belder, ‘The epenthetic consonant in West-Germanic diminutives is syntactic’. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW30). University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. (abstract)
- Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, ‘Verb Clusters Redux’. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW30). University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Tanja Temmerman at CGSW
CRISSP member Tanja Temmerman will be giving a talk at CGSW30 on 22 May:
- Pushing the Boundaries: Idioms and Phases in Dutch dialects and English. The 30th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW30). University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
CRISSP Seminar with Michael Cysouw
CRISSP is happy to announce a CRISSP Seminar with Michael Cysouw on Monday June 1, 2015.
Title: Language comparison through massively parallel texts
Abstract
A central goal of general linguistics is to try and make statements about human language in general, and not just for a few, widely studied languages. There currently exists a range of different methodologies to investigate and compare many disparate languages. However, the central problem of comparability always raises its ugly head: how do we make sure that we are comparing like with like across languages? As a solution to the problem of comparability, I propose to use massively parallel texts, i.e. the same text translated into many different languages (cf. http://paralleltext.info). I will present a few basic examples of how parallel texts can be used for language comparison and discuss possible future directions of this kind research.
Upcoming talks for Will Harwood
This month, CRISSP member Will Harwood will be giving the following two talks:
- Pushing the Boundaries: idioms and phases in Dutch dialects and English. CamCOS 4. Cambridge University – Cambridge, UK. 7-9 May 2015.
- Reduced Relatives and Extended Phases. Workshop on Aspect in Embedded Clauses. ZAS – Berlin, Germany. 11-12 May 2015.
CRISSP Seminar with Daniel Harbour
CRISSP is happy to announce a CRISSP Seminar with Daniel Harbour on Monday May 11, 2015.
Title: The logical resources of person features
Abstract
Traditionally, person features have been taken to denote predicates, with the minus value denoting logical negation. However, traditional features overgenerate person systems and must be constrained by ultimately nonexplanatory means (such as cooccurrence restrictions). This talk demonstrates that the need for ad hoc constraints vanishes if different logical resources are assumed. Specifically, person features denote power sets and feature values denote complementary operations by which sets act on one another. In tandem with this reconfiguration of the theory, I argue for a reenvisioning of the data pertinent to person theories, relegating syncretisms to secondary status and affording central position to partitions (superpositions of syncretisms) and treating person and spatial data on a par. Relative to these changes in data, the proposed theory generates all and only the required systems whilst deriving significant facts about their internal properties. These results suggest that the logical resources of feature theories in general are ripe for reconsideration.
BCGL 8 Program Online
The program for BCGL 8: The Grammar of Idioms is now available. You can consult it on the following web page:
BCGL 8 will take place in Brussels on June 4 and June 5, 2015. For more information, see the conference website on https://www.crissp.be/bcgl8.
Upcoming Talks for Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck will give 4 talks in the following months:
- When statistics met formal linguistics: variation in Dutch verb clusters. GLOW 38. Paris, France, 15-17 April 2015.
- Verb clusters redux. CGSW 30. Chicago, US, 22-23 May 2015.
- A quantitative approach to Dutch verb cluster variation. Formal ways of analysing variation 2. Reykjavík, Iceland, 28 May 2015.
- Lexical items moving up the tree: grammaticalization of ECM-verbs in Dutch. With Marjo van Koppen. DiGS 17. Reykjavík, Iceland, 29-31 May 2015. (poster)
The Sprouse Lectures: new schedule
The schedule for the Sprouse Lectures has changed; check the lectures page for up to date information.