Winter 2024 lab meetings

 Our meetings this quarter will be Fridays 12:00 - 1:00.

January 19

We'll start off the quarter by discussing this article on Shupamem:

Schurr H, Kandybowicz J, Nchare AL, Bucknor T, Ma X, Markowska M, Tapia A. Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem. Languages. 2024; 9(1):7. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010007

January 26

Maho will give us a tutorial on doing Bayesian analyses of the results of acceptability experiments.

February 2

We'll discuss this article:

Huang, N. Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: An experimental study of Mandarin Chinese. Nat Lang Linguist Theory (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4

February 9

We'll continue our discussion of the N. Huang article from before, and if there's time, we can start in on this:

Wurmbrand, S. (2024). The Size of Clausal Complements. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031522-103802

March 1

We'll shift gears this week and start in on this recent article:

Cuneo, N., & Goldberg, A. E. (2023). The discourse functions of grammatical constructions explain an enduring syntactic puzzle. Cognition, 240, 105563.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105563

March 8

Continuation of the Cuneo & Goldberg article!

March 15

For our last meeting of the quarter, we'll discuss this reaction to the Cuneo & Goldberg article:

Momma, Shota and Dillon, Brian, Discourse Factors Do Not Explain Islands. 

Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4635713 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4635713