Last updated – January 2012
Galit W. Sassoon
ILLC / University of Amsterdam
galitadar@gmail.com
Academic
Panels
Invited talks
2012 (Scheduled), Absolute Adjectives and their modifiers, LeGO Seminar, January 20, ILLC/UvA.
2012, The semantics of ‘for’ phrases and its implications, Joint work with Robert van Roij, Utrecht Syntax-Interface Meetings, January 16, Utrecht.
2011, Combining vague adjectives - in theory and in practice, Joint work with Frank Veltman, LogICCC Final conference, 15-18 Sep, Berlin.
2011, From generalized
quantifier theory to the Adjective-Noun distinction: A new approach to the
research of adjectives, Approaches
to the Lexicon (Roots III), 13-16 June, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. [Slides]
2011, The
flexibility of adjectival interpretations, VAAG workshop, 25-26 May,
Lund.
2011, Logical vs. non
logical operations in the semantics of adjectives vs. nouns.
Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Nounhood and Adjectivehood, 23-25 March, The Center for Theoretical
Linguistics of the Universitat Autonoma
de Barcelona.
2011, Absolute vs. Relative
Adjectives, Nijmegen semantic and pragmatic colloquium, March 22,
Nijmegen.
2010, Adjectives,
Antonymy and Scale structure, at a Seminar of the English/Linguistic
Department, November 30, Gottingen University.
2010, Adjectives, scales and zeros, at the Tilburg Logic
and Language seminar, November 11, Tilburg University.
2010,
Antonymy in
Multidimensional adjectives,
LABORATORY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, November 5, Leuven University.
2010,
Against ‘POS’, The CL group
meeting, May 27, Osnabruck University.
2010, Measurement theory
in linguistics: Absolute vs. relative zeros in grammar, Colloq. of the Institute of Cognitive Science, May
26, Osnabruck University.
2010, Restricted
quantification over tastes, Department of
Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, May 11, Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, Beer Sheva.
2010, Measurement
theory in linguistics – an overview, The interdisciplinary Colloquium of
the
Linguistics Department, May 6, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
2010,
Mesurment theory and the licensing of
degree morphemes, February 9, Tubingen University.
2009,
Restricted quantification over tastes, LeGO Seminar, December 11, ILLC/UvA.
2009, Evaluativity
– Two accounts, Vagueness
Circle meeting, October 27, Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam).
2009, Negative
adjectives, Vagueness
Circle meeting, June 16, Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam).
2008, Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, A
corpus-based study, June 10, Department of
Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva.
2008, Negative predicates and
transformation values, May 27, Department of Linguistics, The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem.
2008, Negative
predicates and transformation values, May 20, Department of English, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.
2008, Vagueness
pertaining to degree constructions – Two case studies, Department of
Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva.
2007, Nouns,
adjectives and more, Department of
Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva.
2007, Nouns,
adjectives and more, The interdisciplinary
Colloquium of the
Linguistics Department, Tel
Aviv University,
Tel Aviv.
2004, What does
typicality stand for? in the Department of Foreign
literatures and linguistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
2004, What does
typicality stand for? in the Department of English, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
2003, Semantics with clusters of properties, The Syntax and Semantics Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
2002, Semantics with clusters of properties, the colloquium of The
Linguistics department, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Conference talks
2012 (scheduled), Felicity of positive and negative polar questions in discourse: an experiment (joint with Noortje Venhuizen and Floris Roelofsen), Questions in Discourse, German Linguistic Society (DGfS), 7-9 March, Frankfurt.
2011, Experimental evidence for granularity shifting in the adjectival domain (poster, with Natalia Zevakhina Lomonosov), Saint-Petersburg Winter Symposium on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language, 16-17 December, Saint-Petersburg.
2011, Stable properties with non-stable standards, The 27th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 24-25, Haifa University, Israel.
2011, The double nature of negative antonymy, Sinn und Bedeutung 16, September 6-8, Utrecht.
2011, A slightly modified economy principle, Stable properties have non-stable standards, Workshop on Degree Semantics and its Interfaces, September 5, Utrecht.
2011, Absolute vs. Relative Adjectives - Variance Within vs. Between Individuals (joint with Assaf Toledo), Semantics and Linguistic theory (SALT) 21, 20-22 May, Rutgers University. [slides]
2010, Invented Antonyms: Esperanto as a semantic lab (joint work with Andreas van Cranenburgh and Raquel Fernandez), The 26th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 5-6, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2010, Be positive! Norm-related implications and beyond, Sinn und Bedeutung 15, September 9-11, Universitet des Saarlandes, Saarbrucken, Germany.
2010, A cognitive root for a word class distinction, Word classes: Nature, typology, computational representation, March 24-26, Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy.
2010, Disagreements about taste, Subjective meaning workshop: alternatives to relativism, Workshop of the 2010 Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS), February 24-26, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.
2010, Adjectival vs. Nominal processing: The rule vs. similarity hypothesis, Utterance interpretation and cognitive models 3, February 5-7, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.
2009, Restricted quantification over tastes, Seventeenth Amsterdam Colloquium, December 16-18, Amsterdam, Netherland. [full pre-proceedings]
2009, Evaluativity, Mini-Workshop: Degrees Under Discussion, October 30, Utrecht, Netherland.
2009, Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, The 25th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 12-13, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
2009, Multidimensional adjectives, A corpus-based study, LoMoReVI - Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information, September 14-17, Cejkovice, Czech Republic.
2009, "More", "twice", and measurement theory's classification of scalar properties, WORKSHOP: Vagueness, Approximation, and Granularity (VAAG), June 25-26, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin.
2008, Vagueness Pertaining to Degree Constructions, The 24th Conference of the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics, October 26-27, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008, Three sources of vagueness in degree constructions, Sinn und Bedeutung 13, September 30 – October 2, Stuttgart, Germany.
2008, Multidimensional adjectives versus nouns, A corpus-based study, 16th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 26-28, Utrecht, Netherland.
2008, Vagueness pertaining to numerical degree constructions, Vagueness and Language use, April 7-9, Paris. (slides)
2008, Negative predicates – The quantity metaphor and transformation values, SALT 18, March 21-23, Umass, Amherst, MS. (slides)
2006, Acquisition order helps bootstrapping semantic knowledge, The Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, October 5-7, Munich University, Munich.
2006, The logic underlying the typicality effects, Sinn und Bedeutung 11, September 21-23, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
2006, Category structure, context and truth conditions, The First Brussels Workshop on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, June 23-24, Universite Libre de Bruxelles , Brussels.
2005, Typicality: Findings, Analysis and Practical Implications, Script – The Israel Association for Literacy, The 20th Conference, Nir-Etzion, Israel.
2005, Typicality – An Improved Analysis, Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 21 Conference, in The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
2005, The notion of typicality, From Gram to Mind: Grammar as Cognition, UNIVERSITY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE BORDEAUX 3, France.
2005, Learning Models – An Improved Analysis of Typicality (poster), Experimental Pragmatics, Cambridge UK.
2004, What does typicality stand for? A formal analysis of typicality as an effect of the gradual learning of predicate meaning, the 6th conference on Logic and the foundations of game and decision theory, Leipzig school of management, Germany.
2002, Semantics with clusters of properties, at the Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics 18 Conference, in Bar Ilan University, Israel.
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