Category Archives: Professional

All post having to do with my professional activities and my profession.

A quantitative defense of linguistic methodology

Posted on July 26, 2010 by kvf

Interesting new paper at LingBuzz: A quantitative defense of linguistic methodology by Jon Sprouse & Diogo Almeidaa It is often argued that the current divide between linguistic theory and other domains of language research can be traced to the unreliability … Continue reading →

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Google Scholar Blog

Posted on July 3, 2010 by kvf

Google Scholar Blog Looks like a good new resource, if they keep it going. Two useful posts so far.

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NASSLLI 2010: Open for Registration

Posted on March 22, 2010 by kvf

[Signal-boosting the call for participation:] NASSLLI 2010 is Open for Registration! Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information NASSLLI 2010 June 20-26, 2010 http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ The North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) is a … Continue reading →

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King’s College London

Posted on January 28, 2010 by kvf

Disturbing news: Leiter on King’ College London firing Shalom Lappin Shalom’s statement

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On citing well

Posted on January 27, 2010 by kvf

[Crossposted from S&P Editors Blog] The journal Nature Chemical Biology has an editorial that is well worth reading and pondering for other fields as well: 2010. On citing well. Nature Chemical Biology 6:2. p.79. doi:10.1038/nchembio.310. Unfortunately, the editorial is behind … Continue reading →

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Another article out

Posted on January 26, 2010 by kvf

To add to yesterday’s announcement, S&P just published its third article of this year: Rick Nouwen: Two kinds of modified numerals, doi:10.3765/sp.3.3. Keep on rolling.

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Banner Year for S&P

Posted on January 25, 2010 by kvf

[Reposted from S&P Editors Blog] Today marks the start of what we hope will be a banner year for our journal. We just published two articles: a main article by Sigrid Beck on “Quantifiers in than-clauses” a commentary by Uli … Continue reading →

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Update: Must … Stay … Strong!

Posted on January 21, 2010 by kvf

Thony and I are thrilled that our article “Must … Stay … Strong!” is to appear in Natural Language Semantics. The article is in production and a DOI has already been assigned but is not functional yet, DOI:10.1007/s11050-010-9058-2. The latest … Continue reading →

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Color

Posted on October 30, 2009 by kvf

[Crossposted from the S&P Editors Blog:] Here’s a reproduction of a figure from a recent article in Mind and Language by Pietroski et.al.: And here is a reproduction a figure from a recent article in Semantics and Pragmatics by Chemla: … Continue reading →

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George V and the Fat Man

Posted on October 16, 2009 by kvf

[This is the first in what I hope will be a series of occasional entries in which I will exhibit a famous example sentence and explain why it is famous. Kind of like a history of semantics in 42 examples. … Continue reading →

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