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Partee and Borschev Report from Indiana

Volodja and I were invited speakers at the inaugural meeting of the new Slavic Linguistics Society held in Bloomington Sept 8-10; our talk was The genitive of negation in Russian: multiple perspectives on a multi-faceted problem . Also on the program was a paper on language acquisition in Russian-English bilingual children by Eva Bar-Shalom of UConn and Elena Zaretsky of UMass (Com Dis) --- Elena and Barbara met for the first time at this conference! At the business meeting the organization 'established itself', and invitations were made and accepted for a 2007 meeting at ZAS in Berlin and a 2008 meeting at The Ohio State University (see recent Language Log posts for discussion of that The. Our colleague informed us that they get in trouble when they don't include it --- I forget what sanctions! So since he carefully included it I had better repeat it so as not to get him in trouble.)*

This new organization and its conference series brings formal and functional/cognitive linguists together and is thus self-consciously more inclusive than FASL (Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics); they also try to accept most abstracts, have multiple sessions, and probably won't do published paper proceedings. The first meeting was a big success, and I was blissfully unaware most of the time of who was a formalist and who was a functionalist or cognitivist – discussion was all very inclusive and constructive. (Some papers were clearly formal, but I didn't detect more than one that was "anti" anything.)


*Editor's note: We get in trouble when we say merely "UMass". "UMass Amherst" is our brand!

[Thanks Barbara!]