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SMPL Concepts, Conjunctive Meanings

For this Linguistics General Meeting welcomes home our Emeritus comrade, Paul Pietroski, to tell us about his recent work on a proof theory for natural language semantics, abstracted below.

Abstract: 

SMPL Concepts, Conjunctive Meanings

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Prof. Ettinger will present in person.
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98806584197?pwd=SXBWOHE1cU9adFFKUmN2UVlwUEJXdz09 (passcode if needed: clip)

"Understanding" and prediction: Controlled examinations of meaning sensitivity in pre-trained models

Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/my/jessicamendes

Asymmetries in presupposition projection: processing and acquisition

Abstract: Presuppositions triggered in the right arguments of binary connectives such as if and or are sometimes inherited wholesale by the sentence, as illustrated in (1). Sometimes, however, the sentence as a whole presupposes something weaker, e.g. (2).

Room TBA

Judgement, Opinion, and Ground: Decomposing Subjective Attitudes

In-person watch party in 1108B Marie Mount Hall.

You linguist! On vocatives and expressivity

 

Dan Goodhue, Jeff Lidz, Yu’an Yang and Valentine Hacquard will present a project they have been developing on children's acquisition of clause types and speech acts, reporting some preliminary results of work they've done. Here's an overview of the topic.

 

Semantics and pragmatics in a modular mind

 

How to be a clever contextualist

 

Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter

(joint work with Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, University of Manchester)

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