Veneeta Dayal to deliver Annual Henry and Teresa Biggs lecture at Washington University

Veneeta Dayal will deliver the Annual Henry and Teresa Biggs lecture at Washington University, St. Louis, MO on April 1, 2022. She will be speaking on “Genericity and (In)definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective”. In this talk, Dayal acknowledges that understandng of genericity and (in)definiteness are largely shaped by how these concpets are understood from an English language perspective, being the language in which these concepts were first studied. Taking a cross-linguistic approach, Dayal discussess generalizations of genericity and (in)definiteness as universal linguistic phenomena focusing on cross-linguistic variation. An abstract for Dayal’s lecture can be accessed at the link below.