Yale linguists participating in the International Congress of Linguists

Four of our faculty members will be representing Yale at the 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL/CIL) in Geneva next week. Check out all the ways they are involved!

Session organization

• Steve Anderson has organized a Varia session, which convenes on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday.
• Claire Bowern has organized a session on The Life, Growth, and Death of Languages, which convenes on Monday.
• Larry Horn has co-organized a session on Pragmatics, Discourse, and Cognition with Istvac Kecskes (SUNY Albany). This session convenes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Presentations

Monday, July 22:

• Larry Horn is presenting an invited talk titled Revisiting the licensing question: some negative (and positive) results as part of a workshop on Negation and Polarity: Interfaces and Cognition.
• Claire Bowern is unable to attend the congress, so Steve Anderson will deliver her overview of the session on The Life, Growth, and Death of Languages.

Tuesday, July 23:

• Larry Horn is giving an overview of the Pragmatics, Discourse, and Cognition session titled Ifs, ands, and buts about pragmatics.
• Larry Horn is providing a closing word for the workshop on Negation and Polarity: Interfaces and Cognition.

Thursday, July 25:

• Steve Anderson is introducing Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna) for his keynote lecture titled The evolution of language: A comparative biological viewpoint.
• Larry Horn is presenting an invited talk titled The Singular Square: Contrariety and double negation from Aristotle to Homer as part of a workshop on The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Words: A Cross-linguistic Perspective.

Friday, July 26:

• Raffaella Zanuttini and Judy Bernstein (William Patterson University) are delivering a talk titled Referential dependencies across discontinuous subjects as part of the Theoretical and Comparative Syntax session.

Congress leadership

• Steve Anderson is a member of the congress’s Local Organization Committee, the chair of its Scientific Committee, and the first vice president of CIPL, its organizing body.
• Larry Horn is a member of the congress’s Scientific Committee.