Reader (Assoc Prof) and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at U of Edinburgh @EdinUniLEL @SchoolofPPLS https://xitter.cf/t.co/XHmya7x5lN (profile photo credit: Natasha Korotkova)
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If you are in the Edinburgh area and you and your children are looking for fun (free!) activity during the 2nd week of the Easter Break, come to my research groups’s session at Edinburgh Science Festival, held in the National Museum! More info in the link:
edinburghscience.co.uk/.../l…
January 6 @ Tokyo
Building Meanings, Building Connections: Celebrating the 60th birthday of Makoto Kanazawa and Christopher Tancredi
semanticstokyo.wordpress.com…
Congratulations Irene for receiving the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
It is a great honour to present my research at Heim Fest organised in celebration tomorrow: linguistics.mit.edu/heimfest…
Is there any semanticist going to SuB here who will arrive at the Catania Airport around 6pm on Sunday? Can we share a taxi ride to Noto?
Come along to the upcoming talk series "Linguistics and Philosophy of Manipulative Speech" in Edinburgh!
wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk/talkse…
ALT Poster of the talk series at Uni Edinburgh "The linguistics and philosophy of manipulative speech", with link to the website with all the information: https://wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk/talkseries/
Very happy to see this paper on our cross-linguistic database of modals published!
doi.org/10.1075/lv.23057.ueg
In the paper, we describe the design of the database and discuss three case studies on how it can be used to investigate cross-ling universal and variation in modals.
The database itself can be accessed here github.com/EdinburghMeaningS…. Contributions and collaborations on the data are more than welcome!
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ALT A university event registration form that says: "Do you consider the speaker(s) to be controversial with regards to their reputation, political views, religious view etc?"
There might be shorter paths and 4 and 5 actually never met, but this might be one of the funkiest routes:
0. Me
1. My father
2. Nadia Comaneci
3. Nicolae Ceaușescu
4. Hirohito (spiritual handshake with)
5. Hitler
Excited to speak at the Workshop on Acquiring and Losing Knowledge as part of the UKRI Empirical Epistemology Network at Stirling in 23-24 April.
empiricalepistemology.stir.a…
Me: now that I'm in the UK, need to turn everything into UK spelling.... (auto-replacing all occurrences of "ize" into "ise")
LaTeX Error: Environment itemise undefined. [\begin{itemise}]
Let's play a game!
A @sampha song or a semantics paper?
1. Whatever
2. Any
3. Only
4. Evidence
5. Always and only
6. Without
7. Answer
8. Maybe
9. Since
10. Yes, but...
Wondering about the threshold of language proficiency at which point listening to music with lyrics in that lang becomes distracting. I sometimes dream in English, but *still* listening to English songs isn't distracting when I work although listening to Japanese songs def is
Semanticists, submit your work on clausal embedding to the MECORE workshop in Konstanz in June! linguistlist.org/issues/34-3…
Deadline: 15 Jan
We have exciting invited speakers!
- @mormaldo
- @PHPortner
- Tanya Bondarenko
- Kajsa Djärv
- Jeanne Lecavelier & Malte Zimmermann
Wataru Uegaki retweeted
いま、Pilippe de Groote先生から伺ったのですが、Jeroen Groenendijk先生が10/17に亡くなったとのこと。dynamic semanticsがなければ僕が意味論の道に進むことはなかったかもしれません。ご冥福をお祈りします。
英国赤門学友会でインタビューしていただきました。
上垣渉さん - 言語を集める人｜英国赤門学友会 note.com/ukakamon/n/n27f2050… #note
