Austin Kraft (McGill) will be presenting a talk “Generalizing measurement in Javanese.” The meeting will take place on Monday, December 2 at 3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Austin’s abstract is below: Javanese (Malayo-Polynesian) allows numerals in pre- and post-nominal position. I propose that numeral position tracks a measurement/individuation distinction: among…

Our next (and final of the semester) meeting will be on Dec 2 at 10 AM in room 002. Ray Cox-Casals will be presenting the following paper (attached). Labrune, L. (2012). Questioning the universality of the syllable: evidence from Japanese. Phonology, 29(1), 113-152. Ray will be present some critical review…