For a complete list of the weekly presentations this term, please see this spreadsheet.

For participants: we will cover some chapters of The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics (Aloni & Paul, 2016) during the weekly meetings this term. If you are interested in presenting any of the chapters, please sign up for the book chapter on this spreadsheet and upload your slides to this folder (with a proper filename) before your presentation.

Upcoming Events

• To be announced

Past Events

• Prominence, markedness, and the subcategories of Mandarin pronoun ziji
  • Presenter: Tianshu Li
  • Date: 25/04/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Discourse semantics ([STB] Chapter 4)
  • Presenter: Tianshu Li
  • Date: 18/04/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Sentential semantics ([STB] Chapter 3)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 11/04/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Lexical semantics ([STB] Chapter 2)
  • Presenter: Hang Kuang
  • Date: 28/03/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Formal semantics ([STB] Chapter 1)
  • Presenter: Yige Chen
  • Date: 28/03/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Interpretation of focus sensitivity: dynamic semantics vs. categorical approach (Part II)
  • Presenter: Bo Xue
  • Date: 21/03/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Interpretation of focus sensitivity: dynamic semantics vs. categorical approach (Part I)
  • Presenter: Bo Xue
  • Date: 14/03/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Focus and event quantification (Part III)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 07/03/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Focus and event quantification (Part II)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 28/02/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Focus and event quantification (Part I)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 21/02/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mandarin mou (某) at the syntax-semantics interface (Part II)
  • Presenter: Bo Xue
  • Date: 14/02/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mandarin mou (某) at the syntax-semantics interface (Part I)
  • Presenter: Bo Xue
  • Date: 07/02/2023
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• In situ licensing of Chinese wh-elements, the reason why, and embedding verbs
  • Presenter: Qianqian Ren
  • Date: 22/12/2022
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Interpretation of pronouns (Part II)
  • Presenter: Hang Kuang
  • Date: 15/12/2022
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Interpretation of pronouns (Part I)
  • Presenter: Hang Kuang
  • Date: 08/12/2022
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• An introduction to natural language processing
  • Presenter: Yige Chen
  • Date: 01/12/2022
  • Venue: Online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mandarin Reflexive ziji: the self-perspective account (Part III)
  • Presenter: Tianshu Li
  • Date: 24/11/2022
  • Venue: G14 Leung Kau Kui Bldg. & online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mandarin Reflexive ziji: the self-perspective account (Part II)
  • Presenter: Tianshu Li
  • Date: 17/11/2022
  • Venue: G14 Leung Kau Kui Bldg. & online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Mandarin Reflexive ziji: the self-perspective account (Part I)
  • Presenter: Tianshu Li
  • Date: 10/11/2022
  • Venue: G14 Leung Kau Kui Bldg. & online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Towards a unified theory of particle de in Mandarin Chinese (Part III)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 03/11/2022
  • Venue: online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Towards a unified theory of particle de in Mandarin Chinese (Part II)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 27/10/2022
  • Venue: G14 Leung Kau Kui Bldg. & online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Towards a unified theory of particle de in Mandarin Chinese (Part I)
  • Presenter: Xue Xia
  • Date: 20/10/2022
  • Venue: G14 Leung Kau Kui Bldg. & online (via Zoom)
  • Weekly presentation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The universal quantifier: a cross-linguistic perspective
  • Presenter: Prof. Haihua Pan
  • Date: 30/08/2022
  • Invited talk at School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University