Workshop: Semantics of NPs, DPs, and Modality!

On June 9th the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese are co-organizing this workshop:

Semantics of NPs, DPs, and Modality

Thursday June 9, 2022 NFC, Victoria College VC102

Registration: https://uoft.me/semantics

Professor Roberta Pires de Oliveira, a specialist on modality and bare nominals in Brazilian Portuguese, is the invited speaker and will be sharing their work on Semantics, Language Variation and Experiments! 

Students working on related topics will also be presenting their work during the workshop! Student Talks include: 

• Sophie Harrington: "More than a mood": Uniting structure and interpretation through prominalized complements 
• Crystal Chen (PhD Student): That Kind-of demonstrative: A Semantic Analysis of English Demonstratives 
• Samuel Jambrović: Names, articles, and unique individuals 
• Ohanna Severo: The syntactic properties of bare nouns in a Spanish-Portuguese contact situation
•  Gregory Antono (PhD Student), Daphna Heller (Faculty) and Craig Chambers  (cross-appointed with the Department of Psychology): Linearizing classifiers, numerals, and nouns in the noun phrase. Does artificial language learning reflect cognitive biases? 

If you'd like to attend this intriguing workshop, please register in advance! 

 Program

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Sophie Harrington
"More than a mood": Uniting structure and interpretation through pronominalized complements

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.
Roberta Pires de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/CNPq PQ-1C) Invited talk: Bare arguments and kinds: The case of Brazilian Portuguese

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Crystal Chen
That Kind-of demonstrative: A Semantic Analysis of English Demonstratives

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Samuel Jambrović
Names, articles, and unique individuals

2:30 – 2:45 pm Coffee break

2:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Ohanna Severo
Investigating bare nouns in Spanish-Portuguese bilinguals

3:15 – 3:45
Gregory Antono, Daphna Heller, Craig Chambers
Linearizing classifiers, numerals, and nouns in the noun phrase. Does artificial language learning reflect cognitive biases?

3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Closing remarks