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Deriving polarity from granularity

Julie Goncharov and Lavi Wolf

2021

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Les Implicatures

Claire Beyssade

2020

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Building complex events The case of Sicilian Doubly Inflected Construction

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Fabio Del Prete & Giuseppina Todaro

2020

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Causation and dispositions: Towards a semantic characterization of the French causative verb laisser

Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy, and Klaus von Heusinger

2020

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Contextualising Generic and Universal Generalisations: Quantifier Domain Restriction and the Generic Overgeneralisation Effect.

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Stockall, L., & Katsos, N.

2019

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Truth is dead; long live the Truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski

Gillian Ramchand

2019

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Force dynamics

Bridget Copley

2019

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Situations and Syntactic Structures

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Gillian Ramchand

2018

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Dispositional causation

Bridget Copley

2018

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Ingredients of Instrumental Meaning

Lilia Rissman and Kyle Rawlins

2017

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June 3, 2025

The future of OASIS

Big plans for the website are underway!

September 29, 2023

SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule

Check out the SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule.

June 17, 2023

Scientific American: This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body

Linguist Anvita Abbi's Scientific American article tells about her work with Great Andamanese speakers.

May 17, 2023

Call for papers: ESSLLI 2023 Workshop: Internal and External Pressures Shaping Language

Call deadline 25 April 2023.

May 21, 2023

Aeon: Time is an object

"Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories"

September 5, 2023

Aeon: The problem of now

The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?

March 4, 2024

A beautiful visualization of gender in language

How do languages mark gender? How do people feel about it?

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The future of OASIS

SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule

Scientific American: This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body

Registration deadline extension for LSA Summer Institute 2023

OASIS "bubbles"

OASIS "bubbles"

OASIS 5 to be held at the University of Edinburgh, December 3-5, 2025

OASIS 5 program

OASIS 5 call for papers

OASIS 4 to be held at York University

OASIS 4 program

OASIS 3 to be held jointly with SPE 12: October 11-13, 2023

OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speaker interviews

OASIS 3 / SPE 12 call for papers deadline extended to June 7

OASIS 3 interview: Wataru Uegaki

OASIS 3 interview: Julie Goncharov

OASIS 3 interview: Joshua Shepherd

OASIS 3 interview: Josef Perner

OASIS 3 interview: James Miller

OASIS 3 interview: Isabelle Roy

OASIS 3 interview: Andrea Moro

Hippocampus distinguishes urgent from future goals

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Five reasons why OASIS 3 / SPE 12 was a success

Call for papers: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites

Call for papers: OASIS 3 / SPE 12

Call for papers: ESSLLI 2023 Workshop: Internal and External Pressures Shaping Language

Aeon: Time is an object

Aeon: The problem of now

A beautiful visualization of gender in language