Larry Horn publishes From Lying to Perjury: Linguistics and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods
Larry Horn edited a new collection entitled From Lying to Perjury, just published by De Gruyte
Semantics & Pragmatics
Raffaella Zanuttini publishes article in Linguistic Inquiry
Raffaella Zanuttini publishes new work highlighting previously unnoticed restrictions on indexical elements.
Veneeta Dayal to give Henry and Theresa Biggs lecture at Washington University
Veneeta Dayal will give the annual Henry and Theresa Biggs lecture on April 1, 2022 at Washington University, St. Louis MI. The talk will be on ‘Genericity and (in)definiteness: A cross-linguistic perspective’.
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Michael Stern publishes in Brain Sciences
Michael Stern published a paper with co-authors LeeAnn Stover (CUNY Graduate Center), Ernesto Guerra (University of Chile), and Gita Martohardjono (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled “Syntactic and Semantic Influences on the Time Course of Relative Clause Processing: The Role of Language Dominance”.
Veneeta Dayal publishes on Linguistic Inquiry
Veneeta Dayal published a paper on “The Puzzle of Anaphoric Bare Nouns in Mandarin: A Counterpoint to Index!” jointly with Li Julie Jiang of the University of Hawaii. It is available on the Just Accepted section on the Linguistic Inquiry web page.
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk in Germany
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on The Cross-linguistic Expression of Definiteness: Demonstratives, Definites and Bare Nouns at the Cologne Center for Language Sciences, Germany on June 21, 2021.
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on definiteness
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on The Cross-linguistic Expression of Definiteness: Demonstratives, Definites and Bare Nouns at Tsinghua University, China on June 3, 2021.
Veneeta Dayal gives a talk at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group
Veneeta Dayal gave a talk on April 26th at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay).
Yale Linguists Present at WCCFL
Three presentations were given by Yale linguists at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL).
Veneeta Dayal will give a talk on "Puzzles from the Interrogative Left Periphery" at the Harvard Linguistics Circle on April 9, 2021
Veneeta Dayal will give a talk on “Puzzles from the Interrogative Left Periphery” at the Harvard Linguistics Circle on April 9, 2021. The talk presents several inter-related puzzles:
