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Special lecture in Tom Roeper's class on Tuesday

Special Lectures will be held in Tom Roeper's class next week, on Tuesday 4:00 PM, November 3, 2009 in the Partee Room:

Kristine Bentzen: "Embedded root phenomena in Scandinavian and English: The (ir)relevance of assertion and presupposition"
Marit Westergaard: "Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure and economy"

Kristine Bentzen and Marit Westergaar are both from CASTL in Tromsø, Norway. Marit Westergaard is the Head of CASTL in Tromsø and Kristine Bentzen is a recent PhD. They work in linguistic theory, dialect studies, and language acquisition and they are part of the Scandinavian Dialect Project.

A Pizza Dinner will follow at Tom Roeper and Laura Holland's home, 149 High St, Amherst at 7:00PM.

Everyone is Welcome!