On 28 June 2012, Tanja Temmerman will defend her PhD.
Title: Multidominance, ellipsis, and quantifier scope
Date: Thursday 28 June 2012 at 11:15
Place: Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73, Leiden
Promotores: Prof. dr. Johan Rooryck (LUCL Leiden) and Prof. dr. Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (CRISSP HUB)
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:
The Embick lecture series will take place in Brussels on 4, 5 and 6 June 2012. The subject of the series is Cyclic and linear dimensions of morphological locality. Detailed information is available on The Embick lectures page.
CRISSP is happy to announce the launch of our new website. We made the following improvements:
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CRISSP is happy to announce a three-day lecture series on the semantics and pragmatics of negation.
Lecturer: Larry Horn (Yale)
Title: Semantics ∩ Pragmatics: Issues in the intersection
Date & time: 5, 6, 7 December 2011, 10.00-13.00
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2, room TBA
Participation: free
Abstracts:
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.