{"id":351,"date":"2017-03-10T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2017-03-10T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:10:54","slug":"events-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/events\/events-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Events in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 9th of December.<\/strong>\u00a0Colloquium:\u00a0Chris Golston<\/a>\u00a0(CSU Fresno).\u00a0Phonological movement in Slavic<\/em>. E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

November 24-25:\u00a0<\/strong>Tammer Castro’s doctoral defense and workshop<\/p>\n

Friday 18th of November.<\/strong>\u00a0Susagna Tubau\u00a0<\/a>(Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona).\u00a0Negative object quantifiers and tag questions in English: evidence for decompositionality and multidominance<\/em>. E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

October 27-28:\u00a0<\/strong>Hierarchical structures in phonology, morphology, and syntax<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday 30th of September. <\/strong>Colloquium:\u00a0\u00a0Robert Henderson<\/a>\u00a0(University of Arizona).\u00a0A demonstration-based account of pluractional ideophones.<\/em>\u00a014.15, B-1004.<\/p>\n

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Ideophones are a grammatically distinguished class of expressions in a language that specialize in depicting sensory imagery (Dingemanse 2011: p. 25; 2012). This talk develops a formal semantics of ideophones that can account for their meaning and compositional properties. I propose an analysis that extends work in Davidson 2015, whose demonstration-based framework provides a formal foundation for the semantics of ideophones that captures the difference between description and depiction, the kind of meaning ideophones traffic in. The talk then shows how the demonstration-based account can be use to analyze pluractionality in the ideophone domain. In particular, case studies I show that there are two previously unrecognized types of ideophonic pluractionality, and that their properties support the demonstration-based account. The first, which I call \u201cdemonstration-external pluractionality\u201d, involves a speaker using an ideophone to do a plurality of demonstrations that characterize a plurality of events. The second kind of ideophonic pluractionality, which I call a \u201cdemonstration-internal pluractionality\u201d, is much more similar to pluractionality in the verbal domain, and involves special morphology that derives ideophone stems that can only be used to demonstrate plural events. Finally, I use the contrast between these two types of pluractionality in the ideophone domain to investigate the line between iconic and non-iconic aspects of the semantics of ideophones. <\/div>\n

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Friday 26th of August.<\/strong>\u00a0Eva Wittenberg\u00a0<\/a>(University of California, San Diego).\u00a0You can lower my standards with your syntax: Computing adjectival scalar thresholds<\/em>. E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

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Many accounts of language assume that communication is inherently Gricean, and thus that contextually enriched meanings depend in part on a sensitivity to speaker states. However, current models of how core semantic phenomena interact with context often ignore speakerspecific information. For example, in the case of gradable adjectives, research on this topic has mainly focused on the role of extra-linguistic context, such as the distribution of a feature across a domain, or informativeness.<\/p>\n

Here, we ask whether, in addition to statistical distributions, listener\u2019s standards of comparison for adjectives are also sensitive to thresholds communicated by (a) existential presuppositions, to investigate whether listeners accommodate individual differences, and (b) different adjective orderings, to test whether the compositional operations involved in understanding AAN-sequences can help comprehenders decide whether scalar thresholds are affected by the speaker\u2019s statements. The results are jointly informative for recent discussions of scalar vs. absolute adjectives, the question of how scalar thresholds are computed, and the compositional semantics of multi-adjective sequences. <\/div>\n

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Friday 19th of August. <\/strong>Colloquium:\u00a0Kari Kinn<\/a>\u00a0(University of Oslo).\u00a0Articles and the structure of nominals in the history of Norwegian.<\/em>\u00a0E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

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In this talk I will present ongoing research on articles and the structure of nominal phrases in Norwegian in a diachronic perspective. In the first part of the talk I will discuss bare nouns vs. nouns with articles in Middle Norwegian, the understudied language stage between Old and Modern Norwegian (ca. 1370\u20131550). In the second part I will present some observations on Heritage Norwegian spoken in the US and Canada.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Tuesday 7th of June.<\/strong>\u00a0Bob Ladd<\/a>\u00a0(University of Edinburgh).\u00a0Singing in tone languages: finding (and formalising) tone\/melody text-setting constraints.<\/em>\u00a0E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

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Friday 27th of May.<\/strong>Klaus Abels<\/a>\u00a0(UCL).\u00a0Sluicing and constraints on movement<\/em>. E-0105, 14.15<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

May 24:\u00a0<\/strong>Workshop on the occasion of Olga Urek’s defense<\/a><\/p>\n

May 23:\u00a0<\/strong>Olga Urek’s doctoral defense<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday 20th of May.<\/strong>\u00a0C\u00e9cile De Cat<\/a>\u00a0(University of Leeds).\u00a0Quantifying bilingual experience based on a composite measure<\/em>. E-0105, 14:15.<\/p>\n

Friday 13th of May.<\/strong>\u00a0Elisabeth Gibert (Universitat de Girona).\u00a0The first phase syntax of the Spanish prefix ‘des-‘<\/em>. E-0105, 14.15<\/p>\n

Friday 29th of<\/strong>\u00a0April<\/strong>. Antje Sauermann (ZAS).\u00a0Impact of Context and Type of Referring Expression on Sentence Comprehension in German-Speaking Children<\/span><\/em>. E-0105, 14.15.<\/p>\n

Fri<\/strong>day 22nd of April.<\/strong>\u00a0Julio Villa-Garc\u00eda<\/a>(University of Manchester).\u00a0Multiple-complementizers, TP-ellipsis, TopicP, and FocusP in Spanish and beyond<\/em>. E-0103. 14:15.<\/p>\n

March 7-11:<\/strong>\u00a0Minicourse by Professor II Kjell Johan S\u00e6b\u00f8<\/p>\n

Friday 4th of March<\/strong>.\u00a0Tanja Kupisch<\/a>\u00a0(University of Hamburg \/ UiT).\u00a0The acquisition of phonology in Italian\u00a0heritage speakers<\/em>. 14:15, E-0101.<\/p>\n

Friday 5th of February<\/strong>. Bruce Mor\u00e9n-Duollj\u00e1 (Nord University).\u00a0Deconstructing (Lule) Saami morphology: the key role of lexical classes<\/em>. B-1003, 14:15.<\/p>\n

February 4\u20135:\u00a0Formal Approaches to S\u00e1mi Languages<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

January 23:\u00a0Phonology workshop on the occasion of Dragana’s defense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

January 22:\u00a0Dragana\u00a0\u0160urkalovi\u0107’s doctoral defense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 15th of January.<\/strong>\u00a0Antonio Balvet\u00a0<\/a>(Universit\u00e9 Lille 3).\u00a0Insights into argument structure realization: what sign languages tell us about predication<\/em>. E-0101, 14.15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday 9th of December.\u00a0Colloquium:\u00a0Chris Golston\u00a0(CSU Fresno).\u00a0Phonological movement in Slavic. E-0105, 14.15. November 24-25:\u00a0Tammer Castro’s doctoral defense and workshop Friday 18th of November.\u00a0Susagna Tubau\u00a0(Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona).\u00a0Negative object quantifiers and tag questions in English: evidence for decompositionality and multidominance. E-0105, 14.15. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}