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View of Mixed-polarity pluralities: A solution to van Benthem’s problem
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My paper on modified numerals is now officially out in the proceedings of SuB 29 😤 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.ph...
My paper on modified numerals is now officially out in the proceedings of SuB 29 😤 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.ph...
View of Mixed-polarity pluralities: A solution to van Benthem’s problem
ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My paper on modified numerals is now officially out in the proceedings of SuB 29 😤 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.ph...
The slides for my SALT 35 talk "Determiners as predicates" can be found here: osf.io/n97vr. It was a real pleasure to present this work at this particular venue. Paper coming soon!
OSF
osf.io
May 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The slides for my SALT 35 talk "Determiners as predicates" can be found here: osf.io/n97vr. It was a real pleasure to present this work at this particular venue. Paper coming soon!
Four days later - 545km of mixed terrain cycling and some practically sleepless nights (I need a new sleeping bag). Finished the Berlin - Usedom - Berlin unsupported bike packing challenge 😤
May 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Four days later - 545km of mixed terrain cycling and some practically sleepless nights (I need a new sleeping bag). Finished the Berlin - Usedom - Berlin unsupported bike packing challenge 😤
Will be in Frankfurt this September for Sinn and Bedeutung, presenting a joint talk with Nathan Klinedinst on “latent discourse referents”, and a poster with Paul Marty, Guillermo Del Pinal and Jacopo Romoli on presupposition projection in non-monotonic environments 👀
May 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Will be in Frankfurt this September for Sinn and Bedeutung, presenting a joint talk with Nathan Klinedinst on “latent discourse referents”, and a poster with Paul Marty, Guillermo Del Pinal and Jacopo Romoli on presupposition projection in non-monotonic environments 👀
Humblebrag, but also not sure what my past self was thinking: about to start a 4 day long unsupported bikepacking challenge through Brandenburg; immediately after, I'll fly to Boston for SALT. Looking forward to sleeping through the flight!!
May 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Humblebrag, but also not sure what my past self was thinking: about to start a 4 day long unsupported bikepacking challenge through Brandenburg; immediately after, I'll fly to Boston for SALT. Looking forward to sleeping through the flight!!
letterboxd but for academic papers
March 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
letterboxd but for academic papers
I'll be at SALT 35 in May, with a talk on "determiners as predicates", as well as a poster, joint with Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, and Guillermo del Pinal, on "free choice in (non-)monotonic contexts". Looking forward to talking semantics!
March 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'll be at SALT 35 in May, with a talk on "determiners as predicates", as well as a poster, joint with Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, and Guillermo del Pinal, on "free choice in (non-)monotonic contexts". Looking forward to talking semantics!
I've written a new (short) paper on modified numerals, where I attempt to solve a whole bunch of problems by using the notion of a 'negative individual' in the ontology of pluralities (an idea from philosopher Justin Bledin). Check it out! ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
Mixed-polarity pluralities: a solution to van Benthem's problem - lingbuzz/008822
In this paper, I suggest a new way of resolving a number of problems with an orthodox treatment of modified numerals as existential quantifiers over pluralities. It’s well known that existential quant...
ling.auf.net
February 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I've written a new (short) paper on modified numerals, where I attempt to solve a whole bunch of problems by using the notion of a 'negative individual' in the ontology of pluralities (an idea from philosopher Justin Bledin). Check it out! ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
new shirt conveying a certain kind of vibe
February 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
new shirt conveying a certain kind of vibe
found this beautiful, naturally occurring example of a 'cumulative' reading with two occurrences of "zero" on a poker message board: "At the time btw zero people gave zero fucks"
In the context of the discussion, it's clear that this conveys that *nobody gives any fucks*(!)
In the context of the discussion, it's clear that this conveys that *nobody gives any fucks*(!)
February 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
found this beautiful, naturally occurring example of a 'cumulative' reading with two occurrences of "zero" on a poker message board: "At the time btw zero people gave zero fucks"
In the context of the discussion, it's clear that this conveys that *nobody gives any fucks*(!)
In the context of the discussion, it's clear that this conveys that *nobody gives any fucks*(!)
Somehow the best Prince live show I've ever seen recorded (and there's stiff competition) took place in Dortmund, somewhere I pass through on the train to Düsseldorf every week www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMaT...
PRINCE LOVESEXY '88 LIVE [720p]
YouTube video by no name
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Somehow the best Prince live show I've ever seen recorded (and there's stiff competition) took place in Dortmund, somewhere I pass through on the train to Düsseldorf every week www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMaT...
My paper with Yasu Sudo “Free choice with anaphora” is out now (early access) in Semantics and Pragmatics doi.org/10.3765/sp.1...
Free choice with anaphora
| Semantics and Pragmatics
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My paper with Yasu Sudo “Free choice with anaphora” is out now (early access) in Semantics and Pragmatics doi.org/10.3765/sp.1...
Very distracted by how the harkonnen guy in the dune hbo show looks like a young George Harrison
December 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Very distracted by how the harkonnen guy in the dune hbo show looks like a young George Harrison
It's wonderful to see that Irene Heim's manuscripts and unpublished handouts are now being systematically archived here: sites.mit.edu/heimarchive/. Heim's handouts are legendary, and I still consult her material on question semantics (not yet uploaded!) on a regular basis
Heim Archive
sites.mit.edu
December 9, 2024 at 10:21 AM
It's wonderful to see that Irene Heim's manuscripts and unpublished handouts are now being systematically archived here: sites.mit.edu/heimarchive/. Heim's handouts are legendary, and I still consult her material on question semantics (not yet uploaded!) on a regular basis
I’ve been listening to a lot of Prince lately, especially the more obscure stuff that was not reviewed well when it first came out. Almost everything is absolutely incredible. Case in point: youtu.be/HKhu_rebRGE?...
The Work Pt. 1
YouTube video by Prince - Topic
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I’ve been listening to a lot of Prince lately, especially the more obscure stuff that was not reviewed well when it first came out. Almost everything is absolutely incredible. Case in point: youtu.be/HKhu_rebRGE?...
Encountered a sticker today at my local, very lefty climbing gym in Berlin that said “only predicates in the domain of discourse”
Guys…is dynamic semantics anti-woke?
Guys…is dynamic semantics anti-woke?
December 4, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Encountered a sticker today at my local, very lefty climbing gym in Berlin that said “only predicates in the domain of discourse”
Guys…is dynamic semantics anti-woke?
Guys…is dynamic semantics anti-woke?
Title concept for a paper on equatives and npi licensing: “same as it ever was” (listened to a lot of talking heads today)
December 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Title concept for a paper on equatives and npi licensing: “same as it ever was” (listened to a lot of talking heads today)
considering becoming a big pikmin guy
November 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM
considering becoming a big pikmin guy
My SALT paper "Donkey disjunctions and overlapping updates" is published here: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/.... I hope everyone appreciates the cool-sounding but otherwise extremely opaque title. It's about the weird logic of cross-sentential anaphora.
Donkey disjunctions and overlapping updates
| Semantics and Linguistic Theory
journals.linguisticsociety.org
February 6, 2024 at 7:52 AM
My SALT paper "Donkey disjunctions and overlapping updates" is published here: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/.... I hope everyone appreciates the cool-sounding but otherwise extremely opaque title. It's about the weird logic of cross-sentential anaphora.
semantics ppl - has anyone said something precise about the contribution of "partially/partly" with incremental themes etc. like "He partially ate the apple"
November 13, 2023 at 1:23 PM
semantics ppl - has anyone said something precise about the contribution of "partially/partly" with incremental themes etc. like "He partially ate the apple"
Reposted by Pluralia tantrum
There was no #linguistics feed when I posted this a while back, and now there is, so am reposting in case the new crop of bsky syntacticians are interested!
I finished a new book a week or so back on phrase structure in a mereological syntax framework. In case anyone is interested, I wrote a blogpost with a link to some slides from a workshop that I presented it at. #linguistics davidadger.org/2023/09/19/m...
Mereological Syntax
So I finished a new book a week or so back, and since I'm not really using the hideous mess that twitter has become, I thought people might be interested in the overall argument. The book is off under...
davidadger.org
November 10, 2023 at 6:19 PM
There was no #linguistics feed when I posted this a while back, and now there is, so am reposting in case the new crop of bsky syntacticians are interested!
continuation passing style really is black magic
November 2, 2023 at 11:52 AM
continuation passing style really is black magic
teaching morphology in intro ling. this week and, man, I just love Marantz's "house" example to illustrate locality for contextual allomorphy. Such a great observation.
October 26, 2023 at 11:41 AM
teaching morphology in intro ling. this week and, man, I just love Marantz's "house" example to illustrate locality for contextual allomorphy. Such a great observation.
after watching neil gaiman get berated for ~12 hours for posting a photo without a mask...can safely say that we've definitely inherited the turbo narc energy from the other place
October 19, 2023 at 12:16 PM
after watching neil gaiman get berated for ~12 hours for posting a photo without a mask...can safely say that we've definitely inherited the turbo narc energy from the other place
guys, what's stopping you from dressing like this
October 19, 2023 at 12:12 PM
guys, what's stopping you from dressing like this