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X-WR-CALNAME:Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Kathryn Davidson
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics proudly presents Dr. Kathryn Davi
 dson\, Professor at Harvard University.  Dr. Davidson will speak on "What
 ’s in a word (but not a picture): Insights from signed languages".\n\nRe
 cent trends in both formal semantics and in cognitive science have taken t
 he logical/compositional structure of meaning in language to be a model fo
 r understanding meaning outside language\, as in pictures\, gestures\, etc
 . Sign languages are an ideal place to investigate this question\, since b
 oth complex linguistic structure and complex depictive structure are highl
 y productive with the same articulators/same modality and both are used ex
 tensively in signing contexts. We might then expect to see unconstrained s
 emantic composition of linguistic and non-linguistic components in sign la
 nguages when freed from the articulatory distinction spoken languages face
  with their accompanying gestures. However\, I’ll argue that instead sig
 n languages provide especially strong evidence in favor of distinguishing 
 linguistic and non-linguistic meaning\, given the highly constrained ways 
 that non-linguistic meanings compose with complex linguistic structures\, 
 based on three case studies: negation\, quantification\, and anaphora.\n\n
 Funded in part by the GPSAFC and Open to the Graduate Community.
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LOCATION:Morrill Hall\, 106
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Kathryn Davidson
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
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