Would you like to work a short walk away from Alfred Tarski’s Warsaw apartment? Maciej Malicki and I are looking for a Ph.D. student and postdoc to help us develop …
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Meaning, Logic, and Cognition
This year we have finally restarted the tradition of having research meetings for the Logic and Language group at ILLC. The new reincarnation of the seminar is Meaning, Logic, and …
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Joining the advisory board of Logic and Logical Philosophy
I am pleased to announce that I have just joined the new advisory board of Logic and Logical Philosophy journal. I am looking forward to collaborating with many old friends …
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Computational and experimental explanations in semantics and pragmatics at ESSLLI 2020
I am happy to announce that together with Shane we are organizing a workshop on computational and experimental explanation in semantics and pragmatics at ESSLLI 2020 in Utrecht. CfP We …
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Ease of Learning Explains Semantic Universals
Finally, the Cognition paper with Shane is out. We argue that ease of learnability explains cross-linguistic universals across various semantics domains, including content and function words. We first recall our …
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A new class on Semantics & Cognition
The past decade has seen increasing interaction between cognitive science and formal semantics and the emergence of the new field of experimental semantics. It feels like the ties between semantics …
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Second Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language
Monotonicity, in various forms, is a pervasive phenomenon in logic, linguistics, and related areas. Tshingua university in Beijing is organizing TLLM2020 workshop devoted to recent discussions involving monotonicity. The first …
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Talk for the opening of the academic year 2019/20
I am thrilled to give a talk for The Faculty of Humanities’ festive opening of the academic year of 2019-2020. It’s even more exciting as it’s going to be my …
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Learnability of Quantifiers @ESSLLI 2019
I have just arrived in Riga for ESSLLI 2019. Tomorrow, Shane and I start teaching the class on the learnability of quantifiers. Only a very limited subset of the mathematically …
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Learnability, complexity, and evolution. CogSci 2019 papers.
In the paper forthcoming in Semantics & Pragmatics, Shane and I have proposed that semantic universals of quantification can be explained in terms of learnability. We claim that many semantic …
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