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Diana Mazzarella is Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Neuchâtel. Her current work lies in the interdisciplinary field of pragmatics, which explores language and communication from a cognitive perspective.

Nausicaa Pouscoulous is Associate Professor in Linguistics at University College London. Her research combines experimental and theoretical approaches and focuses on linguistic phenomena at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, such as scalar implicature, presupposition and metaphor. In recent years she has been particularly interested in the acquisition of pragmatic abilities in typically and atypically developing children.

They will talk to us, via Zoom, about some of their recent work on irony. 

Participants in two connected projects at UiO led by Ingrid Lossius Falkum, DEVCOM and Creativity and Convention in Pragmatic Development, present their research questions and explain how they are going to test them.

The Research Group in Language Change brings together people from different subfields of linguistics who do diachronic research.

The Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (also known as ILN) are hosting our POP-UP CAFÉ again!

All students who are curious about the masters' programmes offered at the institute are very welcome!

In connection with PhD candidate Riccardo Pulicani’s midway evaluation, there will be a one-day mini-seminar on interactions between information structure, sentence structure and operator scope. See the program below and be welcome!

Anna Papafragou, who is professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, is a leading expert on experimental semantics and pragmatics, language acquisition, and language and cognition.