December 17th: Xixian Liao (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Coherence-driven predictability and referential form: evidence from English corpus data.
December 10th: E Jamieson (University of Southampton): Incorporating the addressee’s beliefs: non-canonical questions in Scots dialects.
December 3rd: Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin): A Meaning First View of Generative Grammar.
November 26th: Diana Gómez Vázquez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): A first approach to the cognitive representation of event structure. [joint work with Luca L. Bonatti & Ana Martín]
November 12th: David Bordonaba Plou (Universidad de Valparaíso/Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The Role of Intuitions in the Discussion on Taste Disagreements: A Study of Experimental Philosophy of Language.
November 5th: Mora Maldonado (University of Edinburgh): Experimental investigations into the learnability of person systems.[joint work with Jennifer Culbertson]
October 29th: David Blunier (Université de Genève) and Giorgia Zorzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Ellipsis, indexicals and role shift in Catalan Sign Language: the role of QUD.
March 12th: Natasha Korotkova (Universität Konstanz): Find, must, and conflicting evidence.[joint work with Pranav Anand]
March 5th: Gemma Boleda (ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Distributional semantics and linguistic theory.
February 27th: Igor Yanovich (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Approximate Bayesian Computation to learn about the Bantu prehistory. [joint work with Patricia Santos, Silvia Ghirotto and Andrea Benazzo]
February 20th: Anderson Almeida da Silva (University of Campinas): On the encoding of definiteness in two groups of signers of Brazilian Sign Language.
December 5th: Matthijs Westera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Studying the anticipation of QUDs and discourse relations by crowdsourcing a dataset of 'evoked questions'.[joint work with Laia Mayol and Hannah Rohde]
November 21st: Dària Serés (Universitat Autònoma Barcelona): Generic plurals in languages with and without articles.
October 31st: Cristina Real Puigdollers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Axial terms in Catalan.
October 17th: Shunting Chen (Shanghai International Studies University/LLF): Predicting the Structure or Predicting the Reference Pattern: Inter-clausal Anaphora in Chinese Written Corpus with the Case of Conditionals.
October 3rd: Chenjie Yuan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Proof Irrelevance and Anaphora Representation.
September 26th: Anna Pineda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University at Cambridge): A new kind of dependent case analysis for Romance causatives: evidence from Catalan (and Italian).
May 30th: Giorgos Spathas (ZAS Berlin): Proportional modification of gradable predicates: the case of percentages.
May 23rd: Dominika Slušná (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Mapping language in the brain: a conflicting picture. A brief overview of language in the brain.
May 9th: Matías Guzman (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf): Analogy-base Morphology: The Classical Nahuatl number system.
May 2nd: Berit Gehrke (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Against the notion of fake imperfectivity.[partially based on joint work with Olga Borik (UNED)]
April 25th: Thomas Brochhagen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Coevolution of Lexical Meaning and Pragmatic Use.
April 11th: Gerardo Ortega (University of Birmingham): The role of gesture in the acquisition of a sign language as a second language.
April 4th: Bridget Copley (CNRS/Université Paris 8): Aspectual meaning at the grammatical-conceptual interface.
March 28th: Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus): Understanding some primitives of grammar.
March 14th: Alexandra Navarrete González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Syntactic explorations into the expressive dimension.
March 7th: Bahtiyar Makaroğlu (University of Ankara/Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Understanding contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): a matter of degree?
February 28th: Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Scalar alternatives and scalar inference involving adjectives.
February 14th: Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen): JA, NEIN, DOCH or STIMMT-NICHT? An Empirical Study on Response Particles in German Sign Language.
January 17th: Natasha Korotkova (University of Konstanz/University of Tübingen): The subjective heart of evidentiality.
January 10th: Evelina Leivada (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway): Adjective Ordering Restrictions and the Role of Universal Grammar.
December 13th: Sebastià Salvà i Puig (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Past Participle Agreement in Majorcan Catalan: The Relevance of Inner Aspect.
November 29th: Kristina Gulordava (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Modelling grounded word acquisition using neural networks: First explorations into fast mapping and slow learning.
November 22nd: Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh: Why are you telling me this? Information content and form.
November 8th: Kata Wohlmuth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Hungarian reduplicated indefinites, reciprocals and event distributivity.
October 18th: Angeliki Lazaridou (Google DeepMind, London): Emergent communication in among cooperative and selfish agents.
March 22nd: María J. Arche (University of Greenwich): The seeds of aspect.
March 15th: Julie Hunter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Discourse structure and conceptualization in situated conversation.
March 9th: Andreas Trotzke (Universität Konstanz): Syntactic explorations into the expressive dimension.
March 1st: Àlex Alsina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The morphology-syntax interface: agreement morphology in Plains Cree.[joint work with Eugenio Vigo]
February 22nd: Maria Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (CONICET, Argentina): ‘Transitivity Alternations: What if a third variant in the causative alternation were possible (and real)?’
February 8th: Laura Aina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): A not-logical approach to negation: studying negated adjectives using Distributional Semantics.
January 18th: Josep Ausensi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Manner/result complementarity, scalar structure and the 'way construction': (im)possible verb meanings.
January 12th: David Adger (Queen Mary University of London): Possessor recursion is prior recursion.
December 14th: Anderson Almeida da Silva: Brazilian Sign Language: a partial null-subject language? [joint work with Claudia Roberta Tavares Silva]
November 30th: Kristen Schroeder (Universitat Barcelona) and Wolfram Hinzen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): The cognitive function of determiners. [joint work with Txuss Martin (Durham University)]
November 16th: Matthijs Westera (University of Amsterdam): English rising declaratives of the quality-suspending kind.
November 2nd: Marco del Tredici (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Semantic variation in online communities of practice.
October 26th: Aurélie Herbelot (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Aligning speaker-dependent meaning through formal distributional representations.
October 19th: Anna Kocher (Universität Wien): The structure and interpretation of Ibero-Romance root clause complementizers.
October 12th: Mario Bisiada (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Language change through language contact in English-German translation.
June 14th: Daniele Panizza (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Neural signatures of Pragmatic Violations in adults and children.
June 8th: Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa): Dynamic Compositional Representations in Distributional Semantics.
May 11th: Craige Roberts (OSU & NYU): Agreeing and Assessing: Epistemic modals and the question under discussion.
May 10th: Kristina Gulordava (UNIGE - UPF post-doc candidate): Computational models of word order variation and dependency length minimization effects in syntactically-annotated corpora.
April 20th: Avery Andrews (Australian National University): Unflattening LFG.
April 6th: Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Cambridge) and Cristina Real Puigdollers (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Creation Predicates and Talmy's (2000) satellite/verb-framed typology.
March 30th: Sílvia Perpiñán (University of Western Ontario): The L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers.
March 23rd: Laia Mayol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Asymmetries between interpretation and production in Catalan pronouns.
March 9th: Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina): Impersonal middles as disposition ascriptions.
March 7th: Kleanthes K. Grohmann (University of Cyprus): Evidence from Greek for the Locus Preservation Hypothesis.
March 2nd: Anna Pineda (CNRS-IKER): Verbs of inherently directed motion in Romance languages: from pronominal uses to causativization.
February 23rd: Zhaozi Jiang (Linyi University, China): "John has died father" and Event Possession in Mandarin Chinese.
February 9th: Cristina Real (UPF): What Measure Verbs Have: an insight into the syntax of possession.
February 2nd: Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS-Paris 8 & University of Milan-Bicocca) & Caterina Donati (University Paris Diderot-7): The syntax of idioms: dealing with a puzzle.
December 1st: L'Houssaine El Gholb (Institut Royal de la Culture amazighe - IRCAM): Aspects morphologiques et syntaxiques de la forme passive en amazighe.
November 17th: Javi Fernández (CLT-UAB): Right dislocation: a tale of two clauses.
October 28th: Guillermo del Pinal (ZAS-Berlin): Advertisement for a multidimensional semantics for truth-conditional pragmatics.
October 13th: Txuss Martín (Durham University): Phases and deixis. The topology of verbal reference. [joint work with Ulrich Reichard]
June 10th: Marcel Giezen (BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language): Language processing in bilinguals of signed and spoken languages.
May 20th: Itziar Laka (University of the Basque Country): Verb agreement inside-out: features, distance and attraction.
May 6th: Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz): "Many", Conservativity and Decomposition.
April 29th: Alexandra Spalek (University of Oslo): The Influence of Context in Verb Meaning: the Combinatorial Panorama of Aspectual Verbs Cross-linguistically.
April 18th: Rafael Marín: Spanish "estarse" is not only agentive, but also inchoative [joint work with Antonio Fábregas].
April 18th: Andrew Koontz-Garboden: Root and template meanings: Insights from change of state verbs.
April 1rst: Joan Maling (Brandeis University): A syntactic Rubin's Vase: the inherent ambiguity of non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions.
March 18th: Kata Wohlmuth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Plural predication in context.
March 11th: Carlo Cecchetto (CNRS, UMR 7023, SFL Paris VIII University): Is mouthing a core component of sign languages? [joint work with Beatrice Giustolisi and Emiliano Mereghetti, University of Milan-Bicocca].
March 4th: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (UMR7023 Structures formelles du langage, CNRS / Université Paris 8): The typology of dependent indefinites.
February 1st (UR-Ling): Núria Esteve-Gibert (Aix-Marseille Université): The online processing of intonational meaning and how it is affected by cognitive empathy: evidence from eye-tracking.
January 22nd: Pablo Rico Rama (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - CLT): The AL + infinitive construction in Spanish: temporal and causal readings.
January 8th: Scott Grimm (University of Rochester): "Furniture" and Other Artifactual Aggregates.
December 4th: María Inés Corbalán (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP): Control in Type-Logical Grammar.
November 20th (UR-Ling): Cristina Baus (Aix-Marseille Université): Lexical Access in sign language comprehension and production.
November 13th: Eva Csipak (University of Göttingen): Past tense and biscuits.
November 13th: Ryan Bochnak (University of Manchester): Optional tense? Evidence from Washo.
October 23rd: Bruno Galantucci (Yeshiva University & Haskins Laboratories): Sabbatical reflections: Where I come from and where I'd like to go.
June 19th: Toni Bassaganyas-Bars (UPF), Old Catalan 'have'
June 12th: Laia Mayol (UPF), The building blocks of concessive 'at least': evidence from Catalan 'si més no'
June 5th: Evelina Leivada (UB), Crosslinguistic Variation: Minding the Gap
May 8th: Susan Fischer (Graduate Center, CUNY),Historical perspectives on sign language change
April 17th: Jordi Fortuny (Universitat de Barcelona),Presenting the Witness Set Constraint
April 10th: Julie Auger (University of Indiana), Subject doubling in Picard: Linguistic competence or badge of identity?
March 27th: Paula Menéndez-Benito (UPF),Modality in the Nominal Domain: Random Choice and Modal Harmony (joint work with Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill)
March 20th: Enric Vallduví (UPF),Information structure in context: the role of theme and contrast
March 13th: Josep Maria Fontana (UPF),Towards a truly minimalist account of 'auxiliary' + participle constructions: the grammatical and lexical encoding of events and states
March 6th: Wolfram Hinzen (ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona),Why do pronouns exist?
February 20th: Anna Gazdik (Karl-Franzens-Univesität, Graz),Agreeing Invariable Adjectives in French (joint work with Veronika Hegedüs)
February 13th: Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College, Philadelphia),The drive for ease of articulation in language: Active and reactive effort in sociolinguistic variation and the structure of the lexicon
January 30th: Claudia Borgonovo (Université Laval - Québec), Concessive clauses or how to be pragmatically humble
December 12th: Helena Aparicio (University of Chicago),Processing of Relative vs Absolute Adjectives: a Visual World Study (joint work with Ming Xiang and Chris Kennedy)
December 5th: Melània S. Masià (CSIC - UAB), Adjectives of veracity
November 14th: Heather Burnett (Université de Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurés / Institut Jean Nicod - École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Reflections of Grammar in Patterns of Variation: Variable Negative Concord in Dialects of French and the Architecture of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
October 31st: Laura Bortolotto (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice), The Syntax (and Semantics) of Relational Adjectives in Italian
October 17th: Paula Menéndez-Benito (UPF), Modality and Determiners: Algún que otro (joint work with Luis Alonso Ovalle (McGill)
October 3rd:Marco Baroni (Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - University of Trento), Decompositional distributional semantics
June 27th: Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland)
June 13th: Peter Pagin (Stockholm University), General Compositionality and Belief Sentences
June 6th: Tonia Bleam (University of Maryland), Ditransitive Alternations Cross-linguistically: Alternate Projection without Polysemy
May 21st: Malka Rappaport-Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Drowning (out) manner/result complementarity?
May 9th: Gemma Barberà (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Univ. Paris 8), R-impersonal constructions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Indefinite pronouns and contrastive meaning
May 2nd: Ayumi Shimoyoshi (UPF), Japanese aspect marker -te i-: progressives, perfects, and habituals in a single form
April 25th (UR-Ling seminar): Bruno Galantucci (Department of Psychology, Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University), Studying novel forms of human communication in the laboratory
April 24th (UR-Ling seminar): James Pustejovsky (Department of Computer Science - Brandeis University), Computational Models of Events
March 24th: Christopher Kennedy (University of Chicago), How many accomplishments
March 14th: Victor Acedo (Universidade do Minho) and Cristina Real (CLT-UAB), The distinction between locative a and en in Catalan: Evidence from quantifier scope
February 28th: Dan Zeman, The variadic Operators Approach: Accounting for Sequence of Tense and other Complex Linguistic Phenomena
February 21st: Mar Massanell and Jaume Mateu (UAB), Auxiliary selection in Old Catalan
January 31st: Josep Quer (UPF), Exhaustive and non-exhaustive variation with anti-specific indefinites: free choice and referential vagueness (link to article)
November 29th: Roberta D'Alessandro (Universiteit Leiden), Person-oriented phenomena in (southern) Italian dialects
November 22nd: Veronika Richtarcikova (UPF), Epistemic indefinites: Alternatives-and-exhaustification analysis
November 8th: Laia Mayol (UPF), Conditionally interpreted declaratives in Spanish
October 25th: Louise McNally (UPF), Reference to and via properties: The case of Dutch
October 18th: Urtzi Etxebarria (CNRS), BNs in Basque
October 11th: Matías Jaque (UAM), Stativity in Spanish: levels of representation and degrees of dinamicity
September 27th: Mihajlo Ignjatovic (UPF), The aspect of resultative verbs
September 19th: Mojmír Dočekal (Brno), Cumulativity and number marking on nouns
September 17th: Mojmír Dočekal & Hana Strachoňová (Brno), Scope preferences of universal quantifier and negation
May 30th: Elena Castroviejo (LyCC-CSIC) & Isabel Oltra Massuet (Tarragona), 'Ser capaç/z': a double-flavored emphatic modal
May 24th (UR-Ling): Cristiane Silva (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Perceptual validation of Garrido Model applied to Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish foreign language
May 17th: Eugenio Vigo (UPF), Spanish cleft sentences as copular inversion cases
April 26th: Marie Labelle (UQÀM) & M. Teresa Espinal (UAB), Historical changes in negative expressions. The case of French.
April 19th: Isidora Stojanovic (CNRS/Jean Nicod & UPF), Reporting same-saying
April 5th: Sergi Torner (UPF), On the semantics of domain adverbs
March 1st: Maartje Schulpen (Utrecht), Modification of bare nominals across languages and constructions
February 15th: Heather Burnett (U. de Montreal / ENS Paris), On the logical and grammatical foundations of adjectival scale structure
February 13th: Heather Burnett (U. de Montreal / ENS Paris), The rise and fall of resultative predication in the history of French
February 8th: Antje Roßdeutscher (Stuttgart), Prepositional Elements in a DM/DRT-based Syntax-Semantics-Interface in German
January 25th: Marie Labelle (UQÀM, Montreal), Syntactic (and pragmatics) aspects of past participle fronting in Old and Middle French
December 13th (UR-Ling): Ulf Liszkowski (Hamburg), How infants communicate: Meaning, gestures, modes
November 29th: Ana Aguilar Guevara (Utrecht), Modified weak definites
November 22nd: Scott Grimm (UPF), Number and Individuation
November 15th (UR-Ling): José Luis Mendívil (Zaragoza), Si todo es sintaxis, ¿por qué son tan importantes las palabras?
October 11th: Xavier Villalba (UAB), Pronominal pivots in existential sentences
October 4th (UR-Ling): Juan Maria Garrido (UPF), Glissando: an annotated corpus for the analysis of Prosody in Spanish and Catalan
September 27th: Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen), On processing
June 22nd (UR-Ling): Nuria Sagarra (Carnegie Mellon / UPF), Cross-linguistic variation and the L2 acquisition of L2 temporal reference
June 18th: Mojmir Dočekal (Brno), On negative manner and degree questions
June 15th: Mojmir Dočekal (Brno), Negation, Scope, Focus and Plurality (abstract: parles.upf.edu/llocs/bgehrke/home/docekal_barcelona_1.pdf)
June 1st: Ilaria Frana (Göttingen), Covert Nominal Modality: The case of Adnominal Conditionals
April 12th (UR-Ling): Joan Borràs-Comes (UPF), Susagna Tubau (UAB), M. Teresa Espinal (UAB) & Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF), Syntax, prosody and gesture constrain the interpretation of double negation
March 15th: Olav Müller-Reichau (Leipzig), Event Kinds and Russian Existential Imperfectives
March 1st: Roser Saurí (Barcelona Media), Are you sure that this happened? Assessing the factuality degree of events in text
February 23rd: Sonia Cyrino (UNICAMP) & M. Teresa Espinal (UAB), Bare Nominals in Brazilian Portuguese: more on the NP/DP analysis
February 16th: Bryan Leferman (UPV-EHU/HiTT), The paradox(es) of Agent-Oriented adverbs
February 2nd: Gemma Boleda (UPF), Coloring semantic spaces: Towards perceptually grounded models of word meanin
January 12th: Cristina Sánchez Marco (UPF), Path and change in Spanish estar + past participle
December 1st: Elena Castroviejo Miró (CCHS-CSIC) & Laia Mayol (UPF): How to cancel an implicature.
November 15th: Klaus Abels (University College London): Split scope and the verbal right bracket in German.
November 3rd: Louise McNally (UPF): Inflection and derivation: how adjectives and nouns refer to abstract objects [joint work with Henriëtte de Swart (Universiteit Utrecht)].
October 20th: Alexandra Spalek (UPF): Verb Meaning in Context: The case of Spanish 'break', 'romper'.
October 6th: Àlex Alsina & Boban Arsenijević (UPF): The two faces of agreement: Analyzing Serbo-Croatian hybrid agreement.
September 29th: Glyn Morrill (UPC): Parsing/theorem-proving.
July 14th: Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro (UPF): The Ibero-Romance agrammatic database: an ongoing project.
June 23rd: John Moore (UCSD): The Object Parameter in Grammar: Evidence from Moro.
June 14th: Gemma Barberà (UPF): A unified account of specificity in Catalan Sign Language.
May 19th: Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University): Tarski, grammar, and truth.
March 31st: Maribel Romero (Universität Konstanz): Decomposing Modal Superlatives.
March 22nd: Gemma Boleda (UPC): Semantic factors in the choice between ethnic adjectives and their PP counterparts: Quantitative evidence.
February 24th: Henriëtte de Swart (Universiteit Utrecht): Telicity features of bare nominals.
January 27th: Vidal Valmala (UPV-EHU): On Spanish Clitic Left Dislocation and the Preference for Move over Bind.
December 9th: Gergő Somodi (UB & CEU Budapest): The Perlocution Claim.
November 30th: Laia Mayol (UPenn/UAB): A Question of Misfortune [joint work with Elena Castroviejo (University of Chicago)].
November 19th: Chris Barker (University of New York & the Free University of Bolzano): Free choice permission as linear reasoning.
July 14th: Gemma Barberà (UPF): Choice of referring expressions in Catalan Sign Language.
June 30th: Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): The nominal properties of ethnic adjectives and the structure of DP [joint work with Artemis Alexiadou].
June 18th: Cristina Real Puigdollers (UAB): Prepositions in Romance.
May 25th: Deborah Chen Pichler (Gallaudet University): Perspectives on sign language acquisition: First, second and bilingual acquisition of ASL.
March 19th: Aina Peris Morant (CLiC, UB): Event vs. result denotation. A pertinent distinction in the nominal domain? An analysis from a corpus linguistics approach.
February 13th: Víctor Acedo Matellán (UB): Adjectival Resultatives Cross-linguistically: a Morphophonological Account.
January 22nd: Gabriela Resnik (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Argentina): La expresión del aspecto en el dominio nominal: determinantes y cuantificadores de nombres eventivos del español.
December 10th: Ad Neeleman (UCL): A'-Scrambling and Contrastiveness in Dutch.
November 22nd: Laia Mayol (UPenn): Pronouns in Catalan: the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis and other uses of the overt pronoun.
July 16th: Mariapaola D'Imperio (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence): Form and function of rising contours in French, Italian and Swedish: to read or not to read?
July 2nd: Stephen L. Thompson (William Paterson University): The logic of stigmatized Englishes.
July 2nd: Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University): Subject-Verb Agreement across Varieties of English.
June 28th: Philippe Blache (CNRS & Université de Provence): Methods and tools for multimodal corpus annotation.
April 26th: Xavier Villalba (UAB): La dislocació a la dreta en català i castellà: un estudi quantitatiu.
March 15th: Ía Navarro (UAB): On the semantic status of le-predicates in Mexican Spanish.
February 1st: Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen): Object Fronting.
