October 2022

Week of October 24

Language Universals Workshop

Faruk Akkuş (UMass Amherst)

Title: A theory of argument indexation: Insights from Kurdish varieties

Abstract: The relationship between agreement and movement operations is a central topic in syntactic theory. In the domain examined in this study, the...

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Week of October 10

Harvard LangCog

Athulya Arvind (MIT)

Title: Alternatives in word learning

Abstract: The meaning and use of a linguistic expression S is often determined in part by properties of its alternatives, unpronounced linguistic objects that relate in specific ways to S. In this talk, I will discuss two case studies illustrating how alternative-sensitive computations interact with lexical acquisition. First, I will offer a new theory of the...

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