Wataru Uegaki<\/a>, University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday, 27.10.2020 A central question in semantic research is whether there are any cross-linguistically robust constraints on the possible denotations of lexical items of certain grammatical categories. Recent work has explored cross-linguistic constraints in the domain of clause-embedding predicates like \u201cknow”, \u201cagree”, and \u201cwonder” (Spector & Egr\u00e9 2015; Theiler, Roelofsen & Aloni 2018; Uegaki 2019; Steinert-Threlkeld 2020). Within this line of work, two basic questions can be distinguished. The first is empirical: Which constraints, if any, do we find in the semantics of clause-embedding predicates? The second is theoretical: What may explain the existence of such universal semantic constraints? In this talk, I will talk about my recent collaborative projects on both of these fronts. Specifically, I will discuss two empirical proposals concerning cross-linguistic constraints on the meanings of clause-embedding predicates (joint work with Floris Roelofsen), and report on artificial-language experiments that aim to tap into how these constraints relate to learnability (joint work with Jennifer Culbertson). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learnability and cross-linguistic constraints on the meanings of clause-embedding predicates Wataru Uegaki, University of Edinburgh Tuesday, 27.10.2020 11:00 – 12:00 Room: [virtual Zoom talk] A central question in semantic research is whether there are any cross-linguistically robust constraints on the possible denotations of lexical items of certain grammatical categories. Recent work has explored cross-linguistic constraints … Continue reading October 27th: Wataru Uegaki<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRoom: [virtual Zoom talk]<\/p>\n