CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University)
Title: TBA
Date & time: Monday December 16, 2013, 17.00-18.30
Location: CRISSP/KULeuven HUBrussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 3112
Participation: free
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Alain Kihm (CNRS – Université Paris 7)
Title: Noun phrases in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol and Nubi: a morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic comparison
Date & time: Monday October 7, 2013: 16.30-18.00
Location: CRISSP/KULeuven HUBrussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 4218
Participation: free
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin)
Title: TBA
Date & time: November 4 2013, 17.00-18.30
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 4218
Participation: free
CRISSP is happy to announce another CRISSP Seminar:
Lecturer: Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp)
Title: Lezen vanop afstand. Digital Humanities en de computationele analyse van middeleeuwse literatuur.
Date & time: June 3, 2013 – 17.00-18.30
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 5112
Participation: free
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Sjef Barbiers (The Meertens Institute)
Title: Stranding and successive cyclic movement
Date & time: November 26 2012, 17.30-19.00
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 4212
Participation: free
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Bart Geurts (University of Nijmegen)
Title: “Embedded implicatures”: the state of the art
Date & time: November 7 2012, 17.00-18.30
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 3207
Participation: free
For about a decade, the interpretation of scalar expressions under embedding has been a much debated issue, with proposed accounts ranging from strictly pragmatic, on one end of the spectrum, to lexico-syntactic, on the other. Since researchers’ introspective judgments tend to agree with the theories they advocate, a number of experimental studies have recently tried to shed light on the issue. In my talk, I will review these experiments, and argue that the extant data favour a pragmatic account.
On 23 April, Hans Broekhuis gave a CRISSP Seminar on tense and modality. The handout and the presentation used in the seminar are now available:
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Jutta M. Hartmann (University of Tübingen)
Title: Focus, Predication and Specification: the Case of It-clefts
Date & time: 28 November 2011, 17.30-19.00
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2 (Hermes building), room 4109
Participation: free
Abstract
In this talk, I investigate the syntax and information structure of it-clefts. It-cleft sentences share a number of properties with specificational copula constructions, and I will propose a similar syntactic analysis, namely as inversion structures. Concerning the information structure, it is shown that the clefted constituent or subparts of it are contrastively focussed. This analysis of focus presented also accounts for the existence of the so-called predicational clefts (Declerck 1983). Finally, the paper suggests that the interpretation of specification is a function of the focus structure. The specificational reading arises when the subject of predication is focused.