The bi-annual Amsterdam Colloquium (http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2017/) brings together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The 2017 edition, which took place December 20-22, featured four presentations by current and former Department members:
- Brian Buccola (PhD 2015, http://brianbuccola.com/) (with Andreas Haida): “Expressing agent indifference in German”
- Mitcho Erlewine (Postdoc 2014-15; https://mitcho.com/) (with Hadas Kotek, Postdoc 2014-15, http://hkotek.com/): “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese”
- Bernhard Schwarz: “On question exhaustivity and NPI licensing”
- Alexandra (Sasha) Simonenko (PhD 2014, http://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~alexandra.simonenko/): “Towards a semantic typology of specifi city markers”
Group picture, from left to right: Bernhard, Mitcho, Sasha, Brian
