Jonas talks on “Already” in Budapest

Dianne Jonas gave a talk with Verner Egerland (Lund) at the Budapest-Potsdam-Lund Linguistics Colloquium in Budapest, June 16&17. The title of their presentation is Just think about it already!. In their talk, they looked at uses of already as a modal particle in English and Swedish.

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Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”

We are glad to announce a talk by

Andy Lücking (Frankfurt a.M.)
on
Demonstration Acts in Grammar

in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, Monday, June 13, 4-6pm, room IG 3.201.

Andy Lücking speaking in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, June 2016.
Andy Lücking speaking in the Oberseminar English Linguistics, June 2016. (Photo: M. Sailer, BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Abstract

Although demonstration acts like pointing gestures or head nods are frequently mentioned in the context of reference, they still live in the shadows of semantic theories. In this talk, a spatial semantics for Continue reading Lücking on “Demonstration Acts in Grammmar”