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Informal proceedings of the workshop ‘Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals’ available
We are glad to announce that the informal proceedings of the workshop ‘Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals‘ (Utrecht University, 7th-8th ...
Mereological choices for count nouns and mass nouns – David Nicolas
DATE: 9th October 2019, 11.00 – 12.30 LOCATION: Drift 23, room 0.10 TITLE: Mereological choices for count nouns and mass nouns AUTHOR: David Nicolas ...
Exclusives and exceptives as sentential coordinators (or: Only, there’s another *only*) by Kai von Fintel
Exclusives and exceptives as sentential coordinators (or: Only, there’s another *only*) by Kai von Fintel (11 June 2019) Speaker: Kai von Fintel (MIT) ...
Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals
Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals We are glad to announce that on the 7th and 8th of October, the workshop “Cross-linguistic ...
ROCKY lecture: When “se” is not needed: lexical reciprocity and reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese – Renato Miguel Basso and Giada Palmieri
Many Romance languages use items like “se” (French) or “si” (Italian) to express reflexivity or reciprocity. Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is another Romance ...
ROCKY mini-workshop: reciprocal predicates in Italian, Dutch and Hebrew
This mini-workshop will report recent findings of the ROCKY team (https://rocky.sites.uu.nl) on reciprocal predicates in three typologically different ...
Alon Fishman: Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal
Sentence-internal “different” as a lexical reciprocal Alon Fishman, Tel-Aviv University Abstract This talk is concerned with a particular ...
The Geometry of Syntax – Matilde Marcolli
The Geometry of Syntax Matilde Marcolli California Institute of Technology Tuesday 17 April at 15.15 Drift 21 Utrecht Abstract Chomsky’s ...
UTL Lectures: Jon Gajewski
Dear students and colleagues, Next week, Jon Gajewski from UConn (Connecticut, USA) will visit UiL-OTS. He is an expert on negative polarity items ...
Semantic Debates
ROCKY seminar on reciprocity, collectivity and typicality When people say that a certain debate is “semantic”, they often mean that it concerns ...