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Semantics Reading Group

On March 9, Ilaria Frana and Florian Schwarz will give practice talks for SALT 16. New location: Amy Rose's place. Start-time as usual: 8:00 pm.

Florian's general's paper, on which his SALT talk will be based, is available here.

On March 16, the group poses the question "Where have all the quantifiers gone?" --- the first in a series of meetings on the foundations and current state of generalized quantifier theory. The group will begin begin with the following paper by Ed Keenan:

Keenan, Edward L. 2002. Some properties of generalized quantifiers. Linguistics and Philosophy 25:627-654.

After spring break, the GQ-series will continue, with the next step probably Angelika Kratzer's recent contribution to the Festschrift for Barbara Partee, which is called 'Indefinites and functional heads: From Japanese to Salish'.