What's Happening In South College http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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!]

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  • 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!

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[Thanks Aynat!]

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[Thanks Kathryn!]

]]> http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/2008/05/phonology_group_26.html http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/2008/05/phonology_group_26.html 06:16 (2008-05-08) phonology group Thu, 08 May 2008 00:07:00 -0500 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.

]]> http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/2008/05/barbara_partee_has_been_select.html http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/2008/05/barbara_partee_has_been_select.html 06:16 (2008-05-08) awards faculty news Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0500 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!

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WaLS 45: Politeness distinctions in pronouns

[Thanks Kathryn!]

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Harvard

Covert A-movement: Backward raising and beyond

Friday, May 2, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26

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UCLA

Natural and unnatural generalizations: early results from a Hungarian wug test

(Joint work with Bruce Hayes, Zsuzsa Londe, and Péter Siptár.)

Friday, May 2, 1:30 pm, in the Partee Room

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There will be an undergrad linguistics party this Friday, May 2, 7:00 pm, in the South College Linguistics Lounge. There will be food (pizza, ice-cream, snacks) and games and possibly music. It's looking to be a pretty awesome time, so mark your calendars.

Also, people are encouraged to bring food/beverages. We will have some soda and snacks there, but that stuff goes fast. So if people could bring a bottle of soda or a bag of chips or whatever strikes your fancy, that would be a big help.

And finally, so that we know how much pizza to order, could everyone who is coming please RSVP either to the Ugrad Linguistics Club facebook group or to Tea.

Thanks guys and hope to see you there!

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