research

research session

Wednesdays from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Sadaf (biweekly)

2022

  • April 6 - Discurso influenciado: explicando la derogación producida por programas que funcionan mediante aprendizaje automático (Federico Jaimes)

  • April 20 - Performativity and architecture (Maria Esipova) / Information-based “island effects” in Spanish clausal doubling (Matías Verdecchia)

  • May 4 - Semántica y expresividad de los epítetos grupales (Alfonso Losada)

  • May 18 - Expressives and argument extension (Nicolás Lo Guercio and Eleonora Orlando) / Introducing expressives through equations. Implications for the theory of nominal predication in Romance (Andrés Saab)

  • June 1 - A resolution semantics for deliberative modals (Ramiro Caso)

  • June 15 - La inteligencia artificial y las ciencias cognitivas (Fernando Carranza)

  • July 6 - The problem of referential inconstancy (Eduardo García Ramírez)

  • July 20 - On the dispositional solution to the problem of the essential indexical (Eduarda Calado)

  • August 17 - Elipsis y movimiento nuclear (Florencia Silva)

  • August 31 - A uniform register-based semantics for honorific pronouns (Ramiro Caso)

  • September 7 - Dogwhistle pragmatics: Vigilance implicatures and hypervigilant listeners (Robert Henderson)

  • September 21 - Un epistémico expresivo o quién sabe qué es esta construcción (Ana Aguilar Guevara)

  • October 6 - Partículas focales, predicados de grado y escalas de estándares absolutos (Edgar David Martínez García) / Defying expectation. An explanatory taxonomy of mirative content (Jessica Rett)

  • October 19 - La variación soi/erís en las formas de tratamiento del español de Chile: emergencia y sistematización desde un enfoque dialectológico, sociolingüístico y morfofonológico cognitivo (Jorge Ledezma Toro)

  • November 2 - Animating number neutrality: animacy splits in the interpretation of bare nouns in Alasha Mongolian (Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez)


2021

  • March 3 - Factive islands and questions about propositions (Matías Verdecchia)

  • March 17 - Deontic modals are not assessment sensitive (Ramiro Caso)

  • April 7 - On gender slurs (Eduarda Calado)

  • April 21 - Hacia una caracterización semántica de los cruces léxicos (Fernando Carranza)

  • May 5 - Sobre términos de ficción (Eleonora Orlando)

  • May 19 - Expresivos y el genitivo primigénito (Andrés Saab)

  • June 2 - Epítetos grupales y tipificación (Alfonso Losada)

  • June 16 - Hablando de personajes de ficción en un marco pluriproposicional (Federico Jaimes)

  • July 7 - From pronouns to probes. A theory of a subset of Spanish clitics (Andrés Saab)

  • July 14 - On pure expressives (Nicolás Lo Guercio, with Eleonora Orlando)

  • August 18 - El objetivo de la práctica lingüística (Eduardo García Ramírez)

  • September 1 - ¿Cómo expresar lo expresado? (Sofía Checchi)

  • September 15 - On the nature of imperatives and its interaction with VP-ellipsis in Spanish (Florencia Silva)

  • October 6 - New hopes for a motivated verbal ellipsis parameter (Andrés Saab)

  • October 20 - A drawback for substitutional arguments (Justina Diaz-Legaspe)

  • November 3 - The resistant effect of slurs: A nonpropositional, presuppositional account (Eduardo Pérez-Navarro)

  • November 17 - On expressive adjectives and argument extension (Nicolás Lo Guercio)

  • December 1 - Islas de factivo y dominios presuposicionales (Matías Verdecchia)

  • December 15 - Insultos e pronominalização (Danniel Carvalho)


2020

  • March 4 - Slurs and antipresuppositions (Nicolás Lo Guercio)

  • April 1 - Bare nouns in non-veridical contexts (Matías Verdecchia)

  • April 15 - Explicating disagreement (Ramiro Caso)

  • May 6 - Fictional names and fictional concepts. A moderate fictionalist account (Eleonora Orlando)

  • May 20 - Apuntes para una teoría formal de los estereotipos (Andrés Saab)

  • June 3 - Defensa del creacionismo en ficción (Federico Jaimes)

  • June 17 - A Gricean account of dogwhistling (Nicolás Lo Guercio) / Yet Another Hyperintensional Theory of Content (Ramiro Caso)

  • July 1 - Rigidity is Context Sensitive (Eduardo García-Ramírez)

  • July 15 - On resumptive prolepsis in Spanish (Fernando Carranza, with Carlos Muñoz Pérez and Matías Verdecchia)

  • August 5 - La pregunta bajo discusión es un montón (Sofía Checchi)

  • August 19 - Deconstructing Voice: The syntax and semantics of u-syncretism in Spanish (Andrés Saab)

  • September 2 - Questions about propositions and factive islands (Matías Verdecchia)

  • September 16 - A perlocutionary account of dogwhistling (Nicolás Lo Guercio, with Ramiro Caso)

  • October 7 - Thick aesthetic predicates: A dual relativist account (Eleonora Orlando, with Ramiro Caso)

  • October 21 - Leandro Cherñavsky

  • November 4 - Slurs and antipresuppositions II (Nicolás Lo Guercio)

  • November 18 - De cómo ser libre y dejar de serlo. Apuntes sobre el doblado de clíticos en el español rioplatense (Andrés Saab)

  • December 2 - Oppressive Speech Shifts Norms in Negotiation Games (Mihaela Popa-Wyatt, ZAS, Berlin)

"Hate speech causes harm not just in a single conversation, but also in the wider social context. It does so by intimidating members of the target group other than the individual target and encouraging receptive audience members to imitate the speech and shift their attitudes. We see every day how hate spreads and attitudes change in communities, both online and in the real world. In this talk, I will show how the norm shifting effect of slurring utterances on a society can be modelled and simulated. I study a societal Nash demand game in which agents bid for resources. The results show that slurring causes norm shifting to happen much more quickly and to change the balance of resources between two groups. "

  • December 16 (11:00am) - Slurs and the Lexicon: Meaning Change as Polysemy Resolution (Dan Zeman, University of Warsaw )

"Many authors have claimed that slurs are lexically rich – in the sense that they comprise at least a descriptive and an expressive/evaluative dimension. Postulating more than one dimension of meaning helps with accounting for various uses slurs have besides the main, derogatory one. In this presentation I explore how more fine-grained lexical theories can be usefully employed to that end. In addition to the documented non-derogatory uses, I present novel data about a sui-generis non-derogatory type of use of slurs (“identificatory”) based on some uses of the ethnic slur “țigan” within Roma communities in Eastern Europe. My main claim is that this slur (and similar ones) should be construed as polysemous. I then show how a certain rich-lexicon view of polysemy accounts for the whole range of the data. I compare this view with other rich-lexicon views in the literature and raise some problems for the latter. "