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Today, 2nd May 2023, we’ll be welcoming Daniel Altshuler (Oxford) to the LEL seminar. He will speak on “Clause-internal coherence: A look at deverbal adjectives”. The talk will take place at the usual time, 4.10 pm in Simon 2.61, and it’ll be live-streamed on Zoom. All are welcome! Clause-internal coherence: A look at deverbal adjectives Daniel Altshuler (Joint work with Kelsey Sasaki) Oxford University Hobbs (2010) introduced ‘clause-internal coherence’ (CIC) […]
April 17, 2023 by manling
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This Tuesday, 18th April 2023, we will welcome Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester) to the LEL seminar series. His talk will be on the syntax and semantics of Persian modals. The talk will take place online on zoom, starting at 4pm. The syntax and semantics of Persian modality and perception Ash Asudeh (Joint work with Setayesh […]
February 6, 2023 by manling
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At this week’s seminar (Tuesday 7th Feb.), we’ll have not one but two talks. The speakers will be Seppo Kittilä on “New typologies of evidentiality” and Sonja Dahlgren on “A phonetic typology of five languages“. Each of the talks will be ca. 30 minutes, starting at 4:10pm. The talks will be in Simon Building 2.61. All […]
December 14, 2022 by manling
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LEL’s Ryan Smith ventured to Newcastle last week, intrepid despite the cold snap and the British trains. Our friends in the North got to enjoy a seminar talk by him on “Agentless presuppositions, resultatives, and the semantics of eventive verbs.”
October 12, 2022 by manling
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The LEL semanticists have a new forum, the Semantics Lab, a “space to share work-in-progress and cool data with a focus on semantics and cross-linguistic variation”. The series kicked off on Tuesday (11th October) with a talk by Changxin Ke, a recent MA alumnus, who spoke on “The Semantics of Mandarin Repetitive Adverb ‘chongxin’”. The presenters […]
July 6, 2022 by manling
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Last week, Manchester hosted TripleAFLA, a joint conference combining the 9th TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers and the 29th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). The organising team were Vera Hohaus, Jens Hopperdietzel, Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. The conference featured 28 presenters and six invited speakers, and it was attended […]
July 1, 2022 by manling
Comments Off on Successful viva for Roisin Cosnahan
Congratulations to Roisin Cosnahan, who has passed her viva this morning! The title of Roisin’s dissertation is “The Role of Pragmatics in the Evolution of Negation in Northern Italian Dialects”. She’s been focusing on the uses and diachronic evolution of postverbal negative markers in Lombardian and Venetian varieties from the 13th to the 20th c., […]
June 17, 2022 by manling
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but it’s not always easy to capture linguistic topics in an image. Anyone who ever wrote a departmental linguistics blog and had to find images to accompany posts about formal semantics will know exactly what I mean. With this in mind, prepared to be impressed by the achievement […]
June 9, 2022 by manling
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LEL’s Jens Hopperdietzel has just had a paper published in Glossa. The paper, titled “Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations on a VP” brings in new evidence from Mandarin and Samoan on the typology of resultative constructions. The paper is available Open Access at https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/7686/. The abstract is below. “Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations […]
March 7, 2022 by manling
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This week’s LEL seminar will feature our very own Jens Hopperdietzel, who will present on “Manner/result polysemy in Daakaka” (see below for an abstract). The talk will take place on Tuesday 8th March at 4pm in Samuel Alexander. There is also an option of following it remotely via zoom. Manner/result polysemy in Daakaka: Complex […]
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May 2, 2023 by manling
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