{"id":14952,"date":"2022-10-03T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:32:36","slug":"welcome-to-visiting-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/10\/03\/welcome-to-visiting-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to visiting students!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to visiting students Janek Guerrini, Elham Mehr, and Nur Lan!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Janek Guerrini<\/strong>:\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">I am a PhD student in linguistics and philosophy at Institut Jean Nicod, at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris, working under the supervision of Benjamin Spector. I specialize in semantics and philosophy of language, and my main research interests are non-intersective modification and genericity. Here\u0092s why I think they\u0092re interesting: both of these phenomena have posed a long-standing challenge to semantic theory, and both seem to be particularly sensitive to the structure of our conceptual, non-linguistic representations. This makes for a domain where the study of language can both illuminate and be illuminated by broader questions in cognitive science. Most recently, I have been looking at some generic readings of indefinites in constructions we use to talk about similarity, as in \u0093look like a lawyer\u0094, which are puzzling because they do not seem to be reducible to an adverbial notion of genericity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elham Mehr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nur Lan<\/strong>: I&#8217;m a visiting PhD student from ENS Paris, co-advised by Emmanuel Chemla (ENS) and Roni Katzir (Tel Aviv University). I originally studied computer science and I like to build models of language learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to visiting students Janek Guerrini, Elham Mehr, and Nur Lan! Janek Guerrini:\u00a0I am a PhD student in linguistics and philosophy at Institut Jean Nicod, at Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris, working under the supervision of Benjamin Spector. I specialize in semantics and philosophy of language, and my main research interests are non-intersective modification and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}