We are happy to announce a talk by Frank Sode (GU) at the Semantics Colloquium.
Please register beforehand (s.walter@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data to zoom on Thursday at 4 pm.
Title: A Unified Semantics for Hidden and Complement Fulfilling Conditionals in Desire reports
Date: November 19
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm
Abstract:
The topic of this talk is the semantics of desire reports, as illustrated by the examples in (1).
(1) a. I want you to be here.
b. I wish you were here.
c. I would be glad if you were here.
d. I'm glad that you are here.
The focus will be on the interpretation of the sentences in (1) at the syntax-semantics interface. Heim (1992) argues that sentences like (1-a) and (1-b) hide a conditional on some level of semantic interpretation. Williams (1974) has argued that the "if"-clauses in examples like (1-c) is "complement fulfilling". Typically, predicates that license complement fulfilling conditionals are classified as factive when they combine with a "that"-clause, as in (1-d). I will argue...
There will be a talk by Cornelia Ebert (GU) in the _Bochum Language Colloquium_ on November 5. You can find the abstract below.
Please note that there will be no Semantics Colloquium in Frankfurt on November 5, so this talk might be a good alternative for anyone who wanted to participate in the Semantics Colloquium on Thursday, since it takes place at the regular meeting time of our colloquium.
*Title:* Semantic Effects of Gesture-Speech Alignment
*Date/Time:* 05 November, 16:15–17:45 CEST
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84014051687?pwd=dzNiRjMyeGg0RmtNWWlOc0dTSlg2UT09
Zoom Meeting-ID: 840 1405 1687 ; Password: 9AKcXf
*Abstract:* Ebert & Ebert (2014) argue that the semantic contribution of a co-speech gesture is partly determined by the temporal alignment of gesture and speech. They claim that an iconic gesture (e.g. a manual gesture depicting "square" or a square object) that accompanies an indefinite ('a window') makes a different contribution than the same gesture that accompanies a definite ('the window') or one that is temporally aligned only with the NP complement ('window'). Crucially, it...
We are happy to announce a talk by Carla Umbach (ZAS, Cologne University) at the Semantics Colloquium.
Please register beforehand (koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts).
Title: Equatives in Turkish – two cognitive strategies across categories
Date: July 16th
Time: 4pm - 6pm...
We are happy to announce a talk by Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam) at the Semantics Colloquium. Please find the abstract below.
Please register beforehand (koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de) to receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts).
Title: Conditionals, Generics and Causality
Date: July 9th
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Abstract:
According to Adams (1965), the acceptability of an indicative conditional goes with the conditional probability of the consequent given the antecedent. Lewis (1975) and Kratzer (2012) gave a very similar analysis of all types of conditionals, and frequency adverbs. However, some conditionals seem to be inappropriate, although their corresponding conditional probability is high. These are cases with a missing link between antecedent and consequent (Douven, 2008, Rott, 2019). In this talk I will argue that the missing link should normally be a causal link. Biscuit conditionals, however, show that the link should be thought of in a more general way. Finally, I will argue that causality and interest...
We are happy to announce a talk by Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) that will be discussed next thursday at the Semantics Colloquium.
Malte Zimmermann will pre-record his talk for our meeting. Please send a mail to koepping@em.uni-frankfurt.de to register beforehand and receive the link. You thereby also register for the discussion session at our usual time. You will receive the access data (to zoom) on thursday at 4pm (= immediately before the colloquium starts).
Title: Fake Tense in Hausa Counterfactuals: A novel argument for underspecified EXCL
Date: July 2nd
Time: 4pm - 6pm
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