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Plus in the French negative system A presuppositional and non-quantificational n-word

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Pascal Amsili and Claire Beyssade

2017

Sous le Sens: Pour une Sémantique Multidimensionnelle

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Claire Beyssade

2017

On truth unpersistence: At the crossroads of epistemic modality and discourse

Patrícia Amaral and Fabio Del Prete

2016

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

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Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie

2015

A force-theoretic framework for event structure

Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley

2015

Deriving the readings of French être en train de

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Bridget Copley and Isabelle Roy

2015

Whole-for-part metonymy, classification, and grounding

Alexandra Arapinis

2015

Non-verbal Predication

Isabelle Roy

2013

General semantics

David Lewis

1970

The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics

Alfred Tarski

1944

People

Artemis Alexiadou

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Claire Beyssade

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Fabio Del Prete

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News

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.

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.

Registration deadline extension for LSA Summer Institute 2023

Registration deadlines have been extended to June 16 for first session and four-week courses, and June 30 for second session courses.

December 3, 2025

OASIS "bubbles"

What are those round colored stickers that everyone is wearing on their nametags?

December 3, 2025

OASIS "bubbles"

What are the stickers on people's nametags?

December 2, 2025

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

OASIS returns to the UK for its 5th edition

OASIS 5 program

See you at OASIS 5

December 3, 2025

OASIS 5 call for papers

OASIS 5 will be held at the University of Edinburgh December 3-5, 2025. Call deadline: August 15

OASIS 4 to be held at York University

See you in York: 15-17 January 2025

OASIS 4 program

The program for OASIS 4, from 15 to 17 January, 2025 at the University of York.

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

Ontology As Structured with the Interfaces with Semantics 3 is to be held jointly with Semantics and Philosophy 12 on October 11-13, 2023 at the Université Côte d'Azur.

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speaker interviews

What do the invited speakers think will help linguists communicate with non-linguists? And other answers to burning questions....

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

Send us your abstracts by June 7

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: Wataru Uegaki

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. Wataru Uegaki, a lecturer in semantics at the University of Edinburgh.

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: Julie Goncharov

Kicking off our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. Julie Goncharov. Dr. Goncharov is a linguist, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. ‍

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: Joshua Shepherd

To continue our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Joshua Shepherd, a philosopher who works on issues in action theory and the philosophy of psychology.

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: Josef Perner

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: James Miller

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. James Miller, an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Durham University.

OASIS 3 interview: Isabelle Roy

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Isabelle Roy (pronounced /ʁwa/), a linguist working on syntax and the interfaces with semantics at Nantes Université.

February 28, 2024

OASIS 3 interview: Andrea Moro

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Andrea Moro, a professor of linguistics at Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS - Pavia.

October 4, 2024

Hippocampus distinguishes urgent from future goals

Looking at how goals are processed in the hippocampus

Heidi Harley's blog

"The power of pos, or, How my MS diagnosis improved my life, or, Lexical semantics, relative adjectives, and resetting your baseline."

Gillian Ramchand's blog

"There's a Dumpster Fire at the End of the Information Superhighway"

Five reasons why OASIS 3 / SPE 12 was a success

Hint: It's the people

Call for papers: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites

Call deadline 31 May 2023.

Call for papers: OASIS 3 / SPE 12

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

Call deadline 25 April 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?

A beautiful visualization of gender in language

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