QP Fest is next Friday!

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 20th annual QP Fest, which will be held next Friday, May 12, starting at 1:30pm in the Greenberg Room (460-126)!  Five of our graduate students will be presenting their most recent work, followed by a social in the Linguistics Courtyard.  The schedule of presentations is below:

QP Fest 2023 Program — Friday, May 12

Session 1:

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

Session 2:

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