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
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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
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
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
We had a fun session on Japanese prosody on October 16th, (thanks again Kaori!) where we discussed exactly what is at stake in claiming a Match theory of the (indirect) mapping between syntax and prosody. Fish Feed will now return to reading Norvin Richards’ Contiguity Theory. We will read the chapters on head movement for Read More
After a week long hiatus for the OASIS workshop on the emergence of features, Fish Feed will resume on October 16. We will be reading Selkirk’s paper on Match, where she argues for it using Japanese data. Joining us for the session will be Kaori Takamine, who has kindly agreed to be expert language consultant Read More
