Week of August 5, 2013

Polinsky in Moorea

As part of a research project with Eric Potsdam (University of Florida) investigating the structure of wh-questions, Professor Maria Polinsky and graduate student Lauren Clemens recently visited the Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea, French Polynesia.

Professor Polinsky (right) with Tahitian consultants.

Professor Polinsky (right) with a Tahitian consultant.

Clemens, Coon, Mateo Pedro, Morgan, Polinsky, and Tandet to appear in NLLT

A recent paper on ergativity in Mayan co-authored by Polinsky Lab members Lauren Clemens, Maria Polinsky, and Gabrielle Tandet '13 and former lab members Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Adam Milton Morgan will be published by the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Clemens LE, Coon J, Mateo Pedro P, Morgan AM, Polinsky M, Tandet G, Wagers M. Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from Mayan. In Press.

A draft of the paper can be downloaded here.

Stranahan at ESSLLI

Laine Stranahan will be presenting her work "Local vs. Global Maximize Presupposition and the Temporal Duration Parameter" at the Workshop on Discourse Coherence, Information Structure, and Implicatures at the 25th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) this Thursday in Düsseldorf, Germany.