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The Santa Cruz Language and Linguistics Group

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S.C.L.L. is an interdisciplinary reading group at UC Santa Cruz consisting of faculty and graduate students from philosophy and linguistics.  The focus of the group is in the areas of formal semantics, the philosophy of language, and philosophical logic.  Some of the specific topics that we have addressed are: the semantics of vague predicates, the meaning of color terms, the reality of a semantics-pragmatics distinction, the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics, scalar implicature, and the content-force distinction for questions

S.C.L.L. also hosts the Distinguished Visitor Series, which is generously supported by UCSC's Institute for Humanities Research. Some of our past visitors: Jeffrey King (USC, Philosophy), Peter Hanks (University of Minnesota, Philosophy), Scott Soames (USC, Philosophy), Michela Ippolito (Boston University, Linguistics), Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst, Linguistics), Irene Heim (MIT, Linguistics), Jason Stanley (Rutgers University, Philosophy), Kent Bach (San Francisco State University, Philosophy), Greg Carlson (University of Rochester, Linguistics), Ned Block (New York University, Philosophy), and Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University, Philosophy).

Our visitors in 2007-8 are: