Lab meetings
Spring 2024
We meet in person on the below dates/times in the specified location. Contact lab@semantics.land to get on the mailing list; we will send out talk abstracts to that list about a week before each talk.
February 14th @ 5:30 (MHP 102) - Jacob Beck and Kevin Lande (York PHIL), "Hidden Movements"
April 1st @ 3:30 (DMC 153) - Steve Finlay (PHIL), "Why Reasons are Explanations"
April 22nd @ 3:30 (DMC 256) - Gabriel Uzquiano (PHIL), "What are Occurrences?"
Fall 2023
We meet in person from 5:00-6:30pm in DMC 200 on the below dates. Contact lab@semantics.land to get on the mailing list/for hybrid participation info.
September 13 - Sam Clarke (PHIL), "Number Adaptation: A Critical Look"
September 27 - Alexis Wellwood (PHIL/LING/PSYC), "Temporal Constitution in Language and Mind"
October 4 - Deniz Rudin (PHIL/LING), "Embedded Quotation and Varieties of Asking"
October 25 - Yaqing Hu (LING), "Do Chinse bi-Comparatives have Degree Phrase?"
November 1 - Khalil Iskarous (LING), "Language as Algebraic-Logic: Husserl to Chomsky"
November 8 - Samuel Hessian (PHIL/LING), "Reflections on Disposition Ascriptions"
November 15 - John Hawthorne (PHIL), "Hearing Things"
November 29 - Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez (LING), "Nominal Number: Markedness and Semantic Interpretation"
Spring 2023
We meet in person from 5-6:20pm on the below dates in MHP 102. Contact lab@semantics.land to receive announcements and more information!
Jan 25 - Anja Chivukula (PHIL), "Toward a hybrid theory of conversational relevance"
Feb 1 - Yasha Sapir (PHIL), "Slurs denote subordinated social properties and presuppose bad background theories"
Mar 1 - Steven Foley (LING), "Allosemy and event anaphora in Georgian placeholder verbs"
Mar 29 - Steve Finlay (PHIL), "Motivating Reasons as Explanations of De Dicto Subjective Goodness"
Apr 12 - Kyle Blumberg (PHIL), "Settling Fiction"
Apr 19 - Jeremy Goodman (PHIL), "Thinking inside a box: Hintikka semantics of confident reports"
Fall 2022
We meet in person from 4:30-6pm in MHP 102 on the below dates. Contact lab@semantics.land to get on the mailing list/for hybrid participation info.
Aug 29 - Mudd Hall courtyard party! Meet and greet for new and continuing students.
Sep 12 - John Hawthorne (PHIL), "Kraemer's Puzzle and The Theory of Intentional Action"
Sep 19 - Deniz Rudin (LING), "Asserting Epistemic Modals"
Sep 26 - Mai Lloréns Monteserín (LING), "How intended and unintended meaning interact in adult Tourette syndrome"
Nov 7 - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (PHIL), "Complex names"
Nov 28 - Alexis Wellwood (PHIL/LING/PSYCH), TBA
Spring 2022
We meet in person from 12-1/1:30pm on the below dates, unless something changes. In person location is ZHS 360. Contact lab@semantics.land to get on the mailing list/for Zoom info!
Jan 21 (online) - Giuseppe Ricciardi (Harvard ling), "Perspective-taking in truth-value assessments"
Feb 4 - Jeremy Goodman (USC phil), "Frege meets Calder: a non-linear higher-order language"
Feb 18 - Antonio Cleani (USC phil) & Luismi Toquero-Perez (USC ling), "The syntax and semantics of decimal numerals"
Mar 25 - Alexis Wellwood (USC phil/ling), "Abstraction and quantification"
Apr 8 - Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (USC ling), "Genuinely tenseless: encoding time in Cantonese"
Apr 15 - Ariela Ye (USC ling), “Bias in negative polar questions in Mandarin Chinese”
Apr 22 - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (USC phil), "What is a rigid designator?"
Fall 2021
We meet over Zoom this fall, unless otherwise noted, from 3-4pm on the below dates, unless otherwise noted. Please contact lab@semantics.land for more information!
Sep 9 (in person) - Mudd Hall Courtyard Party! Meet and greet for new, continuing, and departing students.
Sep 24 (4pm) - Mahmoud Jalloh, "Quantity dimensions and degree semantics"
Oct 8 - Deniz Rudin, "Connoisseurial Contradictions and Fluctuating Faultlessness"
Oct 22 - Yasha Sapir, "Slurs are verdicts"
Nov 5 - Anthony Nguyen, "What to believe and consider about 'believe' and 'consider': Subjectivity as idealized disagreement"
Dec 10 - Douglas Wadle, "Event and Process in Mind"
Summer 2021
We meet over Zoom this summer, on Thursdays at 3:30pm Pacific Time. Contact lab@semantics.land for more information!
Jun 10 - Meet and greet for new and continuing students; summer overview
Jun 17 - Carrie Watson (research coordinator): Online studies with adults
Jun 24 - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (PHIL grad student): Practice talk for presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP)
Jul 1 - Carrie Watson (research coordinator): Online studies with kids
Jul 15 - Douglas Wadle (PHIL grad student) and Araceli Carmona (post-bac RA): SERIESC project status
Jul 29 - Mohammad Naqvi (RA) - JumpStart poster practice presentation
Spring 2021
We meet over Zoom this semester. Contact lab@semantics.land for more information!
Jan 29 @ 11am - Alexis Wellwood (PHIL, LING): Exploring the analogy between objects and events
Feb 12 @ 11am - Mahmoud Jalloh (PHIL): Conceptual spaces as a ground for semantics
Feb 26 @ 11am - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (PHIL) : Context
Mar 10 @ 10am - Luis Miguel Toquero Perez (LING) : The syntax-semantics of comparatives
Mar 24 @ 10am - Douglas Wadle (PHIL): A solution to the distality problem
Apr 9 @ 11am - Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (LING): Modality in the nominal domain
Apr 21 @ 10am - Megha Devraj (PHIL): Structure-mapping theory
Summer 2020
The Meaning Lab meets at 9:30am Pacific Time over Zoom. Summer meetings are reserved for the lab's PI, research coordinator, and undergraduate research assistants.
May 26 - Alexis Wellwood (PI), Welcome and overview of summer
Jun 2 - Alexis & Sasha Frangulov (Research Coordinator), Running online experiments
Jun 9 - Carrie Watson (RA), Project GLOWFLASH & handling JsPsych data
Jun 23 - Sasha, Basic statistics & running online experiments with children
Jun 30 - Sam Basch (RA), Project QUANTITY
Jul 7 - Sandra Barahona (RA), Project VISION
Jul 14 - Lab social! Research coordinator & RAs
Jul 21 - Clayde Vassallo (RA), New project progress
Aug 4 - Alexis, Project continuity & Drive organization
Aug 11 - Lab, Reflections on work, life, and school in 2020
Spring 2020
The Meaning Lab meets at 3:30pm Pacific Time on Tuesdays. Now, we are meeting virtually using Zoom. Please contact our lab manager to join our remote meetings!
Jan 28 - Alexis Wellwood (PI), Welcome to the Meaning Lab, Spring edition
Feb 4 - Jeremy Goodman (Philosophy faculty), Sense and Reference
Feb 11 - Mahmoud Jalloh (Philosophy graduate student), Causality
Feb 25 - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (Philosophy graduate student), Vagueness
Mar 3 - Voting Day! No lab meeting
Mar 24 - Alexis Wellwood (PI), The Naturalistic Study of Language
Mar 31 - Alexis Wellwood (PI), NSF Research: Events in Language and Mind
Apr 7 - Jennifer Foster (Philosophy graduate student), Language & the Social
Apr 14 - Deniz Rudin (Linguistics faculty), TBA
Apr 21 - End of semester party!
Fall 2019
Oct 2 - Welcome to Fall!
Oct 9 - Alexis Wellwood (Philosophy faculty): "Graded plurals and indeterminacy"
Oct 16 - Deniz Rudin (Linguistics faculty): "When faultless disagreement is not so faultless: What widely-held opinions can tell us about subjective adjectives"
Oct 23 - Jesse Storbeck (Linguistics graduate student), "Discourse-level processing of English possessed nouns"
Oct 30 - Junhyo Lee & Anthony Nguyen (Philosophy graduate students), "Generics in Proportion"
Nov 6 - Elli Neufeld (Philosophy graduate student), "Dehumanization of women through essentialization"
Nov 13 - Elsi Kaiser (Linguistics faculty), "Predicates of personal taste and adjective valence: Generalizing positive vs. negative opinions"
Nov 20 - Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (Philosophy graduate student), "The semantics of compared-to phrases"
Dec 4 - End of semester party!