Elizabeth Coppock

@drcopp

Linguist (semantics/pragmatics)

Boston, MA eecoppock.info Joined April 2014

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Elizabeth Coppock @drcopp Aug 13, 2025

Semantics teachers! The Fall 2025 version of "Invitation to Formal Semantics" is now available. It has major changes to Chapters 1-5 driven by new exercises and visualization of cases. Solutions to exercises soon available upon request.

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Elizabeth Coppock @drcopp Sep 17, 2022

NO LOITERING Any person found loitering will be subject to the predicate “is loitering” from “Who needs donuts?” by Mark Alan Stamaty tmblr.co/ZJ0ogmcdV7-0Ou…

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Elizabeth Coppock @drcopp Jul 28, 2022

Move over “the weather has been delightful”! This is my new favorite example of a(n apparent) violation of Grice’s Maxim of Relevance. #AOC

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AOC: Do you condemn your industry explicitly marketing materials to domestic terror threats?

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Elizabeth Coppock @drcopp Jul 26, 2022

Judgment please! Suppose I have a half-liter sample of red liquid and a quarter-liter sample of blue liquid.
1) The half-liter sample weighs 0.9 kilograms per liter
2) The half-liter sample weighs 0.9 grams per milliliter

Both sound fine 9
1 is good, 2 is weird 4
2 is good, 1 is weird 2
Both sound weird 2

Final results

Elizabeth Coppock @drcopp Jun 17, 2022

Proud to be part of the inaugural issue of the new Journal of Uralic Linguistics!
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benjamins.com Object agreement in Hungarian: In defense of a semantic solution This paper contributes another round in the debate over how to analyze object agreement in Hungarian, a form of differential object marking that is found among other Uralic languages as well. I have...