Annual Mini-Conference
The Annual Department Mini-Conference will take place on Thursday, May 15, starting at 9:00 am, in the Math Lounge in Lederle Tower.
Downloadable version of the schedule
| Jesse Aron Harris |
Events and extraction in pseudo-coordination |
9:00-9:35 |
| Wendell Kimper |
Syntactic reduplication and the spellout of movement chains |
9:35-10:10 |
| Meg Grant |
The (non-)interaction of ellipsis and binding: Evidence from re-binding |
10:10-10:45 |
| Misato Hiraga |
Japanese Many quantifiers and their interaction with demonstratives |
10:45-11:20 |
| Break |
Lunch provided |
11:20-12:00 |
| Emily Elfner |
The interaction of linearization and prosody: Evidence from pronoun postposing |
12:00-12:35 |
| Pasha Siraj |
How to win the discourse game using particles |
12:35-1:10 |
| Martin Walkow |
When can you ask a inner negation polar question? |
1:10-1:45 |
[Thanks Kyle!]
End-of-Semester Lunch
The department held is End-of-Semester Lunch yesterday. It featured sandwiches from Andiamo and a cake from the Henion Bakery. The cake was decorated with the names of our graduating majors:
- Amanda Bernhard
- Clara Donascimento
- Daniel Green
- Ekaterina Kravtchenko
- Elizabeth Oconnor
- Natan Pakman
- Yelena Paschenko
- Amy Patno
- Ho Ching Yuen
Thanks to everyone who helped arrange the lunch! And congratulations to our new Linguistics BAs!
Semantics Reading Group
Semantics reading group meets today (May 8), at 8:00 pm, for the last time in Spring 2008, with a very special program featuring two WCCFL 27 practice talks!
[Thanks Aynat!]
Phonology Group
PhG met yesterday (May 7). Nabila Louriz, currently a visitor at MIT, gave a talk entitled 'Adaptation of nasal vowels in Moroccan Arabic.'
[Thanks Kathryn!]
Barbara Partee Elected to the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
Barbara Partee has been selected as one of the first Academy Fellow Awardees of the newly created Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. Congratulations, Barbara!
The MAS's mission is to stimulate interest in science, promote scientific research, help improve science education, and so forth. The President is a UMass Amherst alumna and UMass Amherst professor, Margaret Riley (Biology). Anyone can join the MAS, and joining in 2008 makes one a Charter Member.
Diversity Grant to Joe Pater
Joe Pater has been awarded a UMass Amherst Diversity Grant from the General Education Council for "Course Material Development: The Sounds of Englishes". It's for the development of a course he is offering this coming fall with Lisa Selkirk: The Sounds of Englishes. Congratulations, Joe!
Kyle Johnson in Maryland
Kyle Johnson is giving a talk called 'Fitting islands to the semantics of movement' at the Maryland Linguistics MayFest this coming weekend (May 10-11).
Joe Pater in Chicago
Joe Pater is giving a colloquium today (May 8) at the Unversity of Chicago. The title is Serial Harmonic Grammar. Check out the abstract or the related slideshow.
Chris Potts in Tucson
Chris Potts is giving an invited address at the Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium this weekend (May 9-11). The title of his talk is 'The coin of the expressive realm'.
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
WALS: An amazing new resource.
[Thanks Kathryn!]
