The Syntax-Semantics Reading Group is a weekly discussion group on syntax, semantics and their interface.
Meetings this semester are on Mondays from 11:30AM - 1:00PM in room 4-153 unless otherwise noted.
Meetings and changes in the schedule are announced by email to interested people. If you want to receive the email announcements, want to present something, give a practice talk, or have any other comments about the Syntax-Semantics Reading Group, email lf-reading-group-request@mit.edu.
Feel free to suggest a reading you would like to present or see presented.
Ezra Keshet and Yasutada Sudo will give practice talks for Sinn und Bedeutung:
Ezra Keshet: Infinitival Complements and Tense
Yasutada Sudo: Quantification into Quotations: Evidence from Japanese wh-doublets
Holiday -- no meeting.
Junri Shimada will give a presentation:
"A New Model of Head Movement: Head Movement as QR."
Holiday -- no meeting.
Friederike Moltmann (Université Paris 1) will give a presentation:
"Degree Structure as Trope Structure."
Note the different time on Oct.10: 9:00-10:30AM (in room 26-322)
Marcus Kracht (UCLA) will give a presentation.
Title TBA.
Note the different time on Oct.11: 5:00-6:30PM (in room 26-322)
Jessica Coon, and Shoichi Takahashi & Sarah Hulsey will give practice talks for NELS:
Jessica Coon: Interrogative Possessors and the Problem with Pied-Piping in Chol Mayan
Shoichi Takahashi & Sarah Hulsey: Wholesale Late Merger
Omer Preminger will give a presentation.
Title TBA.
Robert Truswell (Tufts) will give a presentation.
Title TBA.
TBA.
Holiday -- no meeting.
Ezra Keshet will give a presentation.
Title TBA.
TBA.
Elena Benedicto will give a presentation:
"Verbal classifiers crosslinguistically."
Kai von Fintel will give a presentation: "Must ... Stay ... Strong!"
