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January 22, 2010

Computation and Language group: Reut Tsarfaty

Reut Tsarfaty, of the University of Amsterdam, will present Between Typology and Technology: A Relational-Realizational Model for Parsing Rich Morphosyntax on Tuesday January 26th. The talk will take place at 4 pm in the Partee room (South College 301): all are welcome!

UMOP 39: Papers in Pragmatics published

UMOP 39: Papers in Pragmatics, edited by Maria Biezma and Jesse Harris, has just been published. You can see a picture of the cover here, read the table of contents here, and most importantly, buy a copy here.
[Thanks Jesse and Maria!]

Epistemic Indefinites Workshop

Alum Paula Menendez-Benito sends along a reminder that the January 30th deadline for abstract submission for the Goettingen Epistemic Indefinites Workshop is fast approaching.

Ernst graduate courses at UConn

Tom Ernst is teaching two graduate courses at UConn this semester, "Structure of Chinese" and "Problems in Syntax: Adverbials".

Twenty-ten?

The linguistic debate of the decade has now begun: how to pronounce 2010.
[Thanks Rajesh!]

Elena Benedicto update

Tom Roeper passes along the following news from alum Elena Benedicto:
This year I'm studying botany (as part of a fellowship to do a second discipline) so that I can do linguistic ethnobotany down in Nicaragua...