The time and room of the reading group have both changed. We will now meet Friday mornings 9-11am, 36-144, right next door to the Stata Center.
Ivona Kucerova has put together a website with our schedule, links to readings, etc:
Archive for September, 2006
Reading Group on Questions
This semester, along with some very good friends of mine (Asaf Bachrach, Ivona Kucerova, and Roni Katzir) I will be organizing a reading group on questions. This will be the latest in a series of interdisciplinary academic events we’ve helped put together. We’ve got a preliminary list of topics (subject to change): exhaustivity, relevance, wh-in-situ, the syntax-prosody mapping, the morphosemantics of question particles, discourse coherence, “the classics,” and possibly others. Our meetings will be held Fridays 1-3pm in the Stata Center at M.I.T., 32-D461. The first meeting will be this Friday (15 September).
The group looks like it will be diverse and interesting. We’ve got linguists, computer scientists, and philosophers from M.I.T., Harvard, BU, CUNY, and Paris taking part. Questions have played an important role in each of these fields, often with overlapping concerns. Hopefully we will be able to hammer out some real solutions to some real puzzles in this area together. Anyone interested in joining should feel free to swing by.
