Tanja Temmerman and Will Harwood will give a talk at New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2 (NWASV 2) on May 19-20, 2016. The title of their talk is “Barking up the right tree: Idiomatic constructions and syntactic domains in English and Dutch.”
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The Iatridou Lectures: Title and Abstract
The title and the abstract for the Iatridou Lectures are now available:
Title: Fancy Games with Tense and Aspect
Abstract: Read the abstract (PDF)
The Lecture Series will take place on May 25, 26 and 27.
Guido Vanden Wyngaerd at WCCFL 34
Guido Vanden Wyngaerd and Karen De Clercq (UGent) will present a poster at The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34, organised at the University of Utah from April 29-May 1, 2016. The title of their poster is “A Constraint on Double Negation”.
New talks for Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck will give three talks in Amsterdam, Göttingen and Cambridge:
- Handle your verb clusters with care. Dealing with bad data in linguistic theory. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 17-19 March 2016. (invited)
- A microparameter in a nanoparametric world. With Marjo van Koppen. GLOW 39. Göttingen, Germany, 5-8 April 2016. (poster)
- A microparameter in a nanoparametric world. With Marjo van Koppen. CamCos 5. Cambridge, UK, 5-7 May, 2016.
KrowFest on 1 April
CRISSP (KU Leuven) is proud to present the workshop KrowFest, celebrating Koen Roelandt’s defense.
KrowFest
Friday April 1, 2016
KU Leuven Brussels Campus
Room 6306 (Building Hermes 3)
Invited speakers
Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Chris Barker (New York University)
Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University)
New CRISSP Events: Save the date
CRISSP is very happy to present five new events in the following months.
- CRISSP Seminar with Luis Vicente: February 22, 2016
- Public Defence Koen Roelandt: March 31, 2016
- Krow Fest with Louise McNally, Chris Barker and Rick Nouwen: April 1, 2016
- The Iatridou Lectures: May 25-27, 2016
- CRISSP Seminar with Jan-Wouter Zwart: May 27, 2016
Two CRISSP Seminars in January
CRISSP is happy to announce two installments in the CRISSP Seminar series in January:
- CRISSP Seminar with Øystein A. Vangsnes: January 21, 2016
- CRISSP Seminar with Marcel den Dikken: January 26, 2016
CRISSP Seminar with Željko Bošković
CRISSP is happy to announce another installment in the CRISSP Seminar series:
Lecturer: Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut)
Title: On the locality of movement: Be careful when you label
Date & time: Friday 6 November 2015, 17h30
Location: CRISSP/KULeuven Brussels Campus, room 2212
Participation: free
Abstract:
The talk will provide a uniform account of a number of locality effects, in particular, the ban on movement out of moved elements, the CED effect (the Adjunct Condition and the Subject Condition), Richards’s (2001) tucking in effect, and the full Comp-trace paradigm, including (in addition to the basic cases) relative and extraposed clauses, the impossibility of short-subject topicalization, French que-qui alternation, and the effect of wh-movement on agreement in languages like Kinande.
The Barker Lectures: Continuations and Natural Language
CRISSP is happy to announce a CRISSP Lecture Series with Chris Barker on October 14-16, 2015. The title of the Lecture Series is ‘Continuations and Natural Language’.
Abstract
Scope-taking is a hallmark of natural language: not only is it widespread in the world’s languages, it is pervasive within individual languages. It is so familiar to us linguists that it is sometimes hard to appreciate just how astonishing it is for an expression to take material that surrounds it as its semantic argument. For instance, in “Ann gave everyone cookies”, the semantic argument of the quantificational DP “everyone” is the property constructed by abstracting over the direct object position, i.e., “\x.Ann gave x cookies”. Clearly, a deep and complete understanding of scope-taking is of foundational importance. Building on joint work with Chung-chieh Shan, I will bring to bear insights and techniques from the theory of programming languages, in particular, the concept of a CONTINUATION. One potential advantage of continuations over other approaches is that continuations allow fine-grained control over the order of evaluation. This allows a new account of sensitivity to linear order in weak crossover, reconstruction, negative polarity licensing, and dynamic anaphora. I will go on to explain how continuations allow understanding the traditional method of Quantifier Raising not as an ad-hoc heuristic for constructing so-called “logical forms”, but as a bone fide logical inference rule in the context of a substructural logic. This will lead to an account of parasitic scope and recursive scope, as in adjectives such as “same” and “different”, as well as of sluicing as a kind of anaphora, including accounts of sprouting examples (“Ann left, but I don’t know when”) and Andrews Amalgams (“Ann ate I don’t know what yesterday”).
New CRISSP Seminars and Lecture Series
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