The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on November 6th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the third floor lounge area of South College.

This meeting will focus on abstract writing. Seth, Rajesh, and Ilaria will present examples of abstracts, both good and bad. Following this, students who wish to participate will receive constructive feedback on their own abstract drafts.

If you would like to get feedback on your abstract, please be sure to submit your abstract to Seth by Monday 11/4. Seth will then distribute the abstracts to all the participants, to allow them to read and generate comments prior to the workshop meeting.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 23rd, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the third floor lounge area of South College.

At this meeting, we’ll have an informal discussion of some of the semantics talks from this year’s NELS, which will take place over this weekend at the University of Connecticut.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 16th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the Partee Room (South College 301).

At this meeting, Angelika Kratzer will lead an informal Q&A session on publishing in the field of semantics.

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 9th, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the third floor lounge.

At this meeting, Ilaria Frana will present her recent joint work with Kyle Rawlins (JHU) on negative questions with the particle “mica” in Italian.

This work will be presented as a poster at this year’s NELS. A PDF copy of the abstract appears below (note that Ilaria informs me that the analysis has changed somewhat since then).

mica_nels

The next meeting of the Semantics Workshop will be held on October 2nd, from 12:20 to 1:10, in the Partee Room.

At this meeting, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten will present her recent work on adnominal modals in English and the particle “daats’i” in Navajo.