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Vera has been a busy bee through 2020! The latest product of that is a paper in Journal of Semantics, co-authored with Malte Zimmermann (not Richard) on “Comparisons of Equality With German so…wie, and the Relationship Between Degrees and Properties”. You can read the paper here. Abstract We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of […]
November 9, 2020 by manling
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Keeping up with Vera’s achievements is becoming a full time job. This week, it’s paper in Cognitive Science, though it’s only Monday, so who’s to know what the rest of the week will bring. The paper is Augurzky, Hohaus and Ulrich “Context and Complexity in Incremental Sentence Interpretation: An ERP Study on Temporal Quantification”, and […]
November 6, 2020 by manling
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LEL’s Vera Hohaus is on a roll: hot on the heels of her teaching award comes a publication in the venerable Semantics and Pragmatics. The lead author is Jozina Vander Klok (University of Oslo), and the paper is titled “Weak necessity without weak possibility: The composition of modal strength distinctions in Javanese”. The abstract is […]
October 9, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Villa-García’s publishing spree
Attentive readers of Manchet will remember Julio’s paper on Spanish que that came out in Glossa last year. Manchet is delighted to report that Julio has now graduated from que to sí que, and since it’s two words, two papers were needed to elucidate all the syntactic intricacies involved. “On the Contrasts Between sí ‘yes’ […]
September 21, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Tweetin’ about Manchestah – Nini et al. research graphical representations of accent
Andrea Nini has a new paper out, co-authored with George Bailey, Diansheng Guo and Jack Grieve. The paper, titled “The graphical representation of phonetic dialect features of the North of England on social media”, is a contribution to a volume edited by Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire on “Dialect Writing and the North of England”, […]
August 10, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Cameron-Faulkner in “Child Development”
LEL’s new professor (congratulations!) Thea Cameron-Faulkner has just published a paper in Child Development, in collaboration with Nivedita Malik, Circle Steele, Stefano Coretta, Ludovica Serratrice and Elena Lieven (at least one of these names should sound familiar to Manchet readers). The paper is titled ‘A Cross‐Cultural Analysis of Early Prelinguistic Gesture Development and Its Relationship […]
July 27, 2020 by manling
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Congratulations to Emily Hanink on her new paper in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. The paper is on “DP structure and internally headed relatives in Washo”. The paper is truly impressive in scope – the number of endnotes alone (whopping 42) tells you that Emily thought about everything there is to think about on the […]
May 20, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Zimmermann in Journal of Historical Syntax
Richard Zimmermann’s latest paper is just out in Journal of Historical Syntax. The paper is titled “Testing causal associations in language change: The replacement of subordinating then with when in Middle English”, and it’s a beautiful display of what LEL does best: language change and data (note also the beautiful minimalist graphics). The paper is […]
May 15, 2020 by manling
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Andrew Koontz-Garboden’s latest book is out, published by OUP, as part of the Oxford Studies in Linguistics Series. The Roots of Verbal Meaning is based on work Andrew has been doing with John Beavers over the last 15 years. Thanks to the NSF, our department, and the Library’s Open Access fund, the book is available […]
May 8, 2020 by manling
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LEL’s Maciej Baranowski and PhD alumna, Danielle Turton, are in the midst of a publishing frenzy. Only recently, Manchet reported their Journal of Linguistics paper on the FOOT and STRUT vowel(s) in Manchester English. Now they are back with an even more impressive number: a Language Variation and Change (Big Deal Socio Journal) paper on […]
November 26, 2020 by manling
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