This coming weekend, MIT will be hosting the MIT Workshop on Comparatives which will bring together researchers from the Cambridge area (and beyond!) to discuss the syntax/semantics of comparative (and related) constructions in a variety of languages.
WHAT: MIT Workshop on Comparatives
WHERE: 32-D461
WHEN: Saturday the 13th (10am – 5:45pm), Sunday the 14th (10am – 4pm)
Invited talks:
- Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst): “The Derivation and Distribution of than-Clauses”
- Roger Schwarzchild (Rutgers): “‘Incomplete’ Comparatives (no comparative marker or no standard phrase)”
- Bernhard Schwarz and Junko Shimoyama (McGill): “Epistemic Wa and Negative Islands in Japanese”