TbiLLC 2017

 

From 18-22 September, Katie participated in the Twelfth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation at Lagodekhi, Georgia. In the Language session, she presented her own work, “Exploring the multi-dimensional meaning of Extra Arguments in English”. In a workshop, Transmodal Perspectives on Secondary Meaning,  she also presented new joint work with Daniel Hole, “Secondary Meanings in Argument Alternations”. The workshop included talks by Stefan Hinterwimmer, Henk Zeevat, Fabian Bross, Daniel Gutzmann, Katharina Turgay, and Lavi Wolf. Katie received insightful feedback on both projects, which will help her get further in solving the puzzle of why variations in argument structure seems to license secondary meaning in the non-base variants.

 

The symposium itself was wonderful: super organisation, beautiful location at the foot of the Caucausus mountains, and a great group of people. While there, Katie was able to meet many new and old friends in the linguistics and logic community (list of speakers can be found here), all while getting to know the Georgian culture and cuisine. All in all a good time!

SLE 2017

 

From 10-14.09, Berit and Katie participated in the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Zurich, Switzerland. Berit and Olga Borik organised a workshop, entitled “Participles: Form, Use and Meaning (PartFUM)“, and Katie presented a talk entitled “Extra arguments: a Multi-dimensional perspective”. The workshop was a nice mix of talks on participles and Katie’s talk in the general session went well. Being such a big conference, with many sub-disciplines of linguistics, there were many new colleagues to meet. Even with the large number of lingusits, the organisation was very good (there was an SLE app!), as was the conference dinner– complete with a linguist band and dancing linguists. Next year’s SLE will take place in Tallinn, Estonia.