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New Publication — ‘Alternating Adjectives’ Ramchand

Now available online from The Linguistic Review: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/tlir.ahead-of-print/tlr-2017-0023/tlr-2017-0023.xml#

Welcome to the New Year!

Welcome to 2018!  It is going to be a full an exciting year here at CASTLFish. I am starting a new project funded by NFR on experimental semantics (modals and compositionality), and so look out for the advertisement of a new PhD position associated with that project, and a kick off conference later in the Read More

BIG NEWS! Norwegian Research Council Funds Ramchand for New 4-Year Research Project

CASTLFish struck gold again this year with an award from the Norwegian Research Council in their annual FRIPRO grant competition. Gillian´s project got funded this year (joining Martin´s from last year) and will start some time early in 2018. The name of the project is : FRIPRO project 275490 Modal Concepts and Compositionality: New Directions in Read More

FishFeed November 21 and November 27

Due to closed schools on Monday 20th November, the next FishFeed will take place on Tuesday 21st November (but in the usual room, A3018; at 12.30)  where we will hear from Björn who will talk about his latest research that he is due to present at the upcoming meeting of MONS next week. He is looking Read More

New: Look Who’s Talking

CASTLFish will be represented at NELS in Iceland this weekend by Craig Sailor, who will be presenting a joint poster with Gary Thoms entitled ‘When silence gets in the way: asymmetric extraction from ellipsis in British dialects’. Peter Svenonius from CASTLFish will also be in attendance and we have been promised a report when they Read More

Fish Feed: October30&Nov6

Fish Feed decided it was not going to continue reading Contiguity Theory. (Essentially, the questions it raises are important but the architecture and details of what it proposes are useless). Because of upcoming NELS in Iceland, which both Craig and Peter are attending, Fish Feed will also not meet on Monday Oct 30. Instead, we Read More