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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., […]
November 15, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Louise McNally at the SynSemLab
The next SynSemLab will host a special guest, Louise McNally from the Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, joining in person. The speaker will give a talk on “Grammatically relevant aspects of meaning and verbal polysemy” (abstract below). The meeting will be on Wednesday, 17 November at 11am Manchester time. All are welcome to attend in Sam Alex_A116, […]
November 12, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Rajesh Bhatt at LEL seminar
At the upcoming LEL seminar, we’ll be welcoming Rajesh Bhatt from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will present joint work with Sakshi Bhatia on “Copular Sentences in Hindi-Urdu: Gluttony and Licensing” (abstract below). The talk will be on Tuesday at 4.15 pm, and it can be viewed in Roscoe 2_3 or on Zoom at […]
November 10, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Hanink and Koontz-Garboden at NELS
Emily Hanink and Andree Koontz-Garboden presented at the virtual NELS (North East Linguistics Society) Conference Special Session on Indigenous Languages of North America. The meeting took place last week, but you can download the supporting documents for the talk, titled “Possession and categorization in a degreeless language”, here.
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’ […]
July 27, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Hanink in NLLT
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 […]
April 9, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Attend GLOW from the comfort of your own home
Attending a linguistics conference has never been easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly. The flagship generative linguistics conference, GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) has just started online. It’s the 43rd edition of GLOW, but the first one ever to be held online, and the organisers, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, have done a stellar job […]
January 27, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Andrew Stewart at LEL seminar
And we’re back! The Spring 2020 LEL seminar series will be kicked off by Andrew Stewart from the University of Manchester with a paper on “Reasoning as we read: how do readers understand conditional statements, implied meaning, and indirect meaning during comprehension?” The talk will place on Tuesday 28th January at 4.15 in SamAlex A101 […]
January 23, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Manc linguists explain the state of things
The latest issue of Annual Review of Linguistics is out, featuring not one, not two, but three contributions by Manchester linguists. The review covers Important Developments in linguistics as a field, so if you want keep your ear to the ground, you don’t want to miss out on this one. The contributions are: Lexical-Functional Grammar: […]
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July 1, 2022 by manling
Comments Off on Successful viva for Roisin Cosnahan