Updates – Omer Preminger

blogpost: Pre-linguistic atoms + syntax ≠ human language

Posted by Omer on 10/10/2018 12 Responses »

Oct 102018

There are several reasons why I started my own blog, after blogging over on Norbert Hornstein’s Faculty of Language (FoL) for a while. One of them is that I found the thematic content of my posts was actually not a terribly good fit for FoL. Norbert is very interested in big-picture cogsci and bio-cognitive themes. I love little morphemes and what makes them (syntactically) tick. These themes obviously make contact with one another, but I sometimes felt like an entomologist at a geophysicists convention. […] [read more]

blogpost: Dowty & Jacobson revisited

Posted by Omer on 09/27/2018 4 Responses »

Sep 272018

Donkey Anaphora is a name for cases where covariance of an antecedent and (what looks like) a bound variable occurs in the absence of c-command, as in the classic (if not entirely pleasant) example in (1): […] [read more]

New handout: “The Anaphor Agreement Effect: Further arguments against anaphora-as-agreement”

Posted by Omer on 09/26/2018 Comments Off

Sep 262018

Here’s a handout for a new paper, which I just presented at the 1st Annual Thematic Workshop of Linguistics in Gottingen (LinG1, theme: “Agreement and Anaphoricity”). […] [read more]

Tenure-track position for Dongwoo Park

Posted by Omer on 08/20/2018 Comments Off

Aug 202018

I’m delighted to report that Dongwoo Park, my first ever PhD (co-)advisee, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Korea National Open University. […] [read more]

blogpost: Meaning-based syntax, compositional semantics, and the circularity problem

Posted by Omer on 08/20/2018 62 Responses »

Aug 202018

A large portion of my interests lately has centered around the proposition that syntactic theory has been overprivileging semantic argumentation. I’ve talked a lot, and in various forums, about why I think this is bad for syntax. Here, I’d like to say a bit about why I think this is bad for semantics. […] [read more]

NYI handout on the Definiteness Effect

Posted by Omer on 08/04/2018 Comments Off

Aug 042018

I just finished co-teaching the “Three Puzzles in Syntax and Semantics” course at NYI with Asya Pereltsvaig and Daniel Altshuler, where my “puzzle” was the Definiteness Effect, and why there is no hope for a semantic account of it. (Avid readers may recognize this theme from elsewhere.) […] [read more]

LinG1 in Gottingen

Posted by Omer on 06/16/2018 Comments Off

Jun 162018

I’ll be presenting at the 1st Annual Thematic Workshop of Linguistics in Gottingen (LinG1) in Germany. (This year’s theme: “Agreement and Anaphoricity.”) More details will be posted on my Talks & Handouts page. […] [read more]

Upcoming talk in Groningen

Posted by Omer on 05/05/2018 Comments Off

May 052018

Next month, I will be giving a talk at the Groningen Syntax Workshop, titled How to tell a syntactic phenomenon when you see it (click the title for the talk abstract). […] [read more]

NY ‑ St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI), 2018 edition

Posted by Omer on 02/11/2018 Comments Off

Feb 112018

I am delighted to announce that I will once again be a member of the faculty at the NY ‑ St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI), in July-August 2018 in St. Petersburg (Russia). […] [read more]

LOT Summer School 2018

Posted by Omer on 02/11/2018 Comments Off

Feb 112018

I am delighted to announce that I will be teaching at the LOT Summer School (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics), in June 2018 in Groningen. I will be teaching a one-week seminar called Person, Number, and the Architecture of Grammar. You can read more about it on my teaching page. […] [read more]

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