QP Fest 2023: The 20th Annual QP Fest

Date
Fri May 12th 2023, 1:30 - 4:15pm
Location
Margaret Jacks Hall, Greenberg Room (Room 126)

The yearly QP Fest is an opportunity to hear about the work of department Ph.D. students.  We encourage all those who have recently (or nearly) completed their qualifying papers to present their work.  

1:30-2pm Tony Velasquez — At least, at most, exactly: Experimental evidence for the ambiguity of numeral semantics

2-2:30pm Sarang Jeong — Negative strengthening: How do we interpret negated adjectives?

2:30-3pm Adolfo Hermosillo — Semantic variation at scale: Copula + adjective constructions in Mexican and European Spanish

3-3:15pm Break

3:15-3:45pm Madelaine O’Reilly-Brown — The non-subject extraction restriction in Uyghur relative clauses

3:45-4:15pm Bran Papineau — Linguistic representations of transgender and non-binary identities in Breitbart: A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis

4:15pm Social in the Linguistics Courtyard