Our meeting times this quarter will be Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30.
April 11We'll continue our discussion of the Momma & Dillon response that we started looking at last quarter:
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
April 18
After our excellent discussion last week, we'll continue our "manner-of-speaking" series with the latest reply from Goldberg, Cuneo and Fergus:
Adele E. Goldberg, Nicole Cuneo, Abigail Fergus. Addressing a challenge to the Backgroundedness account of islands, March 25, 2024. https://osf.io/hmc9n/download/?format=pdf
This week we'll talk about some current work by Jon Sprouse and Sandra Villata on D-linking and strong/weak islands. The slides from a recent talk of theirs are available here .
May 30
May 9
We'll continue our discussion of the Sprouse & Villata slides.
May 16
Since we've been talking about D-linking, we'll continue along those lines with this recent WCCFL poster:
Wh-island effects and d-linking effects in wh-in situ questionsZheng Shen and Beth Chan, WCCFL 2024
May 23
Grant will show us some work in progress that he has been doing on D-linking. May 30
We'll discuss this poster on Singapore English that Unsub saw at the recent HSP conference:
Islands for wh-extraction and wh-in-situ are backgrounded in Singlish (but not all backgrounded constructions are islands)
Beth Chan and Zheng Shen
June 6
To finish up the quarter, we'll discuss at least the first part of this recent article:
Christensen, K. R. & Nyvad, A., (2024) “Complexity, frequency, and acceptability”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10618
