MACSIM takes Manhattan

The 6th MACSIM is at CUNY, with work by Rachel, Jeff Green, Nick Huang, and Quinn Harr from Philosophy.

October 1, the 6th MACSIM is at CUNY, with work by Rachel, Jeff Green, Nick Huang, and Quinn Harr from Philosophy. MACSIM is a regional workshop on issues related to meaning in natural language. It consists of oral presentations and posters by graduate students from the participating departments in the Mid-Atlantic: NYU, CUNY, Rutgers, Penn, Delaware, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Georgetown. There is also one invited talk by a faculty member from the group – this year, Philippe Schlenker – and plenty of time to get to know people and their work.
Talk * Rachel Dudley, Discovering the factivity of know
Posters * Jeffrey Green, Pragmatic control of rationale clauses * Quinn Harr, In what sense is might an epistemic modal? * Nick Huang, Syntactic bootstrapping with minimal morphosyntactic cues: Learning Mandarin Chinese attitude verb meanings