What's Happening In South College tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2 2009-11-18T21:13:23Z Movable Type Open Source 4.1 Computation and language group - postponed to December 3 tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1211 2009-11-18T21:12:35Z 2009-11-18T21:13:23Z The next meeting of the computation and language group will not be Thursday, Nov. 18th, as previously announced, but will instead be held December 3rd, 6 p.m. in South College 301. The topic remains the same - Rajesh Bhatt will... whisc
While you have your calendars out, you can also note that the Psycholinguistics group meeting has been moved from December 2nd to December 9th at 7:30 pm - topic and location TBA. ]]> Seth Cable invited speaker at McGill tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1213 2009-11-18T21:07:35Z 2009-11-18T23:44:58Z Seth Cable will be giving a talk on Tlingit and Intervention Effects at McGill University, Friday, November 20th.... whisc talk on Tlingit and Intervention Effects at McGill University, Friday, November 20th.]]> Patrick Pratt at Maynard High School tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1212 2009-11-18T20:28:58Z 2009-11-18T21:11:16Z Patrick Pratt, who graduated earlier this year with a BA in Linguistics and in Computer Science, took up a position this fall as a Computer Applications and Web Design teacher at Maynard High School in Maynard, MA. Congratulations Pat! PS... whisc
PS To other undergrad alums - send us your news and we'll pass it along!]]> Psycholinguistics group meeting tonight tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1209 2009-11-11T17:02:42Z 2009-11-11T16:52:16Z Joe Pater will be presenting joint work with René Kager (Utrecht University) "Phonotactics as phonology: Knowledge of a complex constraint in Dutch". A draft of the paper, which starts with an abstract, is here. The meeting will be at 7:30,... whisc here.

The meeting will be at 7:30, Wednesday, November 11th, chez Magda Oiry et Joe Pater (click here for a google map).]]> Caroline Heycock guest lecture in syntax seminar tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1206 2009-11-11T16:30:10Z 2009-11-11T16:52:46Z Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh University) will be giving a talk in the first half of Kyle Johnson's seminar this week. Click here for an abstract. On the t(r)ail of a syntactic change: verb movement in Faroese Hasbrouck Lab 104A at 2:30... whisc Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh University) will be giving a talk in the first half of Kyle Johnson's seminar this week. Click here for an abstract.

On the t(r)ail of a syntactic change: verb movement in Faroese

Hasbrouck Lab 104A at 2:30 Thursday, November 12.

]]> Emily Elfner in syntax reading group tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1210 2009-11-11T16:24:30Z 2009-11-11T16:50:39Z Emily Elfner gave a practice talk in syntax reading group Monday night for her upcoming NELS talk. Use the handy whisc search feature for the run-down of South College participants.... whisc Emily Elfner gave a practice talk in syntax reading group Monday night for her upcoming NELS talk. Use the handy whisc search feature for the run-down of South College participants. ]]> Barbara Partee's Oslo lecture on video tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1204 2009-11-11T15:34:01Z 2009-11-11T16:50:04Z The whole lecture Barbara gave in September in Oslo is on line and free of access: http://folk.uio.no/atleg/russian_in_contrast/... whisc http://folk.uio.no/atleg/russian_in_contrast/]]> Tom Roeper talk in Paris tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1208 2009-11-11T15:06:33Z 2009-11-11T16:49:29Z Leah S. Bauke (University of Wuppertal) gave a presentation of joint work with Tom Roeper in a talk entitled "A closer look: incorporated and non-incorporated singular and plural nominal gerunds" at the Workshop on Nominal and Verbal Plurality held at... whisc Leah S. Bauke (University of Wuppertal) gave a presentation of joint work with Tom Roeper in a talk entitled "A closer look: incorporated and non-incorporated singular and plural nominal gerunds" at the Workshop on Nominal and Verbal Plurality held at CNRS/Paris 8, November 6-7, 2009. Tom Roeper presentation at Amherst town hall meeting tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1207 2009-11-11T14:00:40Z 2009-11-11T18:21:44Z Tom Roeper spoke for a successful motion at the Amherst town hall meeting Nov. 5th in favor of inviting two Guantanamo detainees to live in Amherst, if they are cleared of terrorism charges and released. The motion has become national... whisc here to read an associated press article. Tom has offered some personal reflections on the presentation:
I was busy in Amherst - having been invited to be a speaker at the Amherst Town Meeting on Nov. 5th on the topic of inviting two Guantanamo detainees to Amherst. Our effort worked and the resolution was passed. Amherst is the first community in the US to declare a willingness to take detainees. The passage of the article has been reported by the BBC, FOX, CNN and a whole host of newspapers.

In my speech I drew a parallel to the Virginia community which in 1938 negotiated with the nazis to secure the release of my great-uncle, Curt Bondy and his students (who had been at an agricultural school he started in Gross-Breesen). They had been taken to Buchenwald on Kristallnacht. The community took him in despite the fact that he was a homosexual which was completely against the law in Virginia at that time. I argued that our obligation to help those that are government mistreated should not be contingent on how the two detainees interpret the impact of their muslim faith on current political issues in the US.
]]> David Pesetsky colloquium on Friday tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1202 2009-10-29T00:00:42Z 2009-10-29T01:51:11Z David Pesetsky (MIT) October 30th, in Machmer E-37 at 3:30 Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories The after-colloq dinner will be held at Barbara Partee's house in Amherst.... whisc

The after-colloq dinner will be held at Barbara Partee's house in Amherst.]]> Semantics Reading Group on Thursday tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1200 2009-10-28T23:03:50Z 2009-10-29T01:50:18Z The Semantics Reading Group will be meeting this Thursday 8pm at Rajesh's place. We will be hearing NELS practice talks by Chloe Gu, on Maximalization and the definite reading in Mandarin wh-conditionals and Maria Biezma, on Inverted antecedents in hidden... whisc Chloe Gu, on Maximalization and the definite reading in Mandarin wh-conditionals and Maria Biezma, on Inverted antecedents in hidden conditionals
Thanks Martin!
]]> Language and Computation Thursday: Luiz Amaral tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1199 2009-10-28T23:02:10Z 2009-10-29T01:52:27Z Luiz Amaral of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will present to the Language and Computation group this Thursday, October 29th at 6 p.m. in the Partee room. His talk will be entitled "Using Natural Language Processing in Computer Assisted Language Learning:... whisc Luiz Amaral of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will present to the Language and Computation group this Thursday, October 29th at 6 p.m. in the Partee room. His talk will be entitled "Using Natural Language Processing in Computer Assisted Language Learning: challenges and approaches." Click here for an abstract. All welcome!]]> UMMM on Sunday tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1203 2009-10-28T21:15:12Z 2009-10-29T11:40:17Z UMMM, the biannual MIT/UMass workshop on phonetics and phonology (now joined by Rutgers), will be held at UMass this Sunday. Our Wendell Kimper and Claire Moore-Cantwell will be presenting. Thanks John!... whisc UMMM, the biannual MIT/UMass workshop on phonetics and phonology (now joined by Rutgers), will be held at UMass this Sunday. Our Wendell Kimper and Claire Moore-Cantwell will be presenting.
Thanks John!
]]> Special lecture in Tom Roeper's class on Tuesday tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1201 2009-10-28T21:00:59Z 2009-10-29T01:58:34Z 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... whisc 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!]]> NECPhon Saturday tag:web.linguist.umass.edu,2009:/~whisc//2.1198 2009-10-22T19:25:09Z 2009-10-23T11:51:40Z There will be a large UMass contingent at the third annual meeting of the Northeast Computational Phonology Circle, to be held at MIT this Saturday. Presenters include current South College residents Karen Jesney, Joe Pater, Kyle Root (UG Ling Major),... whisc Northeast Computational Phonology Circle, to be held at MIT this Saturday. Presenters include current South College residents Karen Jesney, Joe Pater, Kyle Root (UG Ling Major), and Robert Staubs, alums Michael Becker and Anne-Michelle Tessier, and former visiting faculty Gaja Jarosz. If you are interested in coming, contact Joe for parking or car-pool info. ]]>