Larry Horn to present at Workshop on Systematic Semantic Change

Professor Larry Horn travels to UT Austin this week to give a talk When implicatures freeze: R-based semantic change in the lexicon and beyond​ at the workshop on systematic semantic change co-organized by our own Professor Ashwini Deo who is visiting in Austin this year. The goal of this workshop is to bring together two groups of researchers: specifically, researchers working on problems of semantic variability and change from within the paradigm of formal semantics/pragmatics and researchers working on these questions from within the grammaticalization paradigm. The workshop aims to engender dialogue on whether and how robust diachronic observations and insights about meaning change emerging from the typological and grammaticalization paradigm can/cannot be modeled using semantic and pragmatic tools and whether attempts at translation between these paradigms can be fruitful for both approaches to meaning. For details on the workshop, including an abstract of the talks, click here.