Valentine Hacquard Colloquium
Valentine Hacquard
Partee Visiting Professor in Semantics, UMass Amherst
On the event-relativity of modals
Friday, February 2, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
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05:01 (2007-02-01)
February 1, 2007
Valentine Hacquard Special Seminar
Today (Feb 1) at 4:00 pm, in Machmer E10, Valentine Hacquard will give a special seminar. It will be aimed at specialists, but all are of course welcome.
Reading Group News
The various reading groups are in their planning stages for the semester. Here's a mapping from groups to their current organizers, whom you should contact if you're new to South College and would like to receive news about meetings and the like:
| Acquisition Lab | → | Youri Zabbal |
| PhG | → | Kathryn Pruitt |
| SRG | → | Florian Schwarz |
| Syntax | → | Cherlon Ussery |
Planning ECO5
In a little over a month, UMass Amherst Linguistics will host the ECO5 Syntax Workshop. This is an annual graduate student workshop involving our department, MIT, Maryland, Harvard and UConn. Amy Rose Deal and Annahita Farudi are organizing what will be the first ECO5 meeting here at UMass.
Students are invited to present work on any aspect of syntax. The organizers expect to set a limit of three presenters per school, in order to keep the program to a single day. Let Amy Rose and Annahita know if you think you'd like to present. They'll see if everyone fits. Even if you aren't interested in presenting (or if you are a faculty member), do plan on joining us in the South College lounge on March 3 to listen to some great new work in syntax!
[Thanks Amy Rose!]
New Library Databases
Jim Kelly, our man at Du Bois, reports that the library "has purchased the Gale Virtual Reference Library, a resource that contains the full-text of a sizeable number of reference works from Thomson Gale and related companies". Check them out via the database locator.
[Thanks Jim!]
Semantics and Processing UMOP: 2nd call for papers
UMOP 35: semantics and procssing, now has an EXTENDED DEADLINE of March 1st.
Here is the relevant information again:
We are inviting submissions for a UMOP volume on semantic processing (UMOP 35). The goal of the volume is to bring together recent work in and around the department on the application of psycholinguistic methods to semantics, and investigations of semantic processing. We also encourage submissions dealing with related issues in the experimental investigation of meaning, such as morphology and syntax. Authors should be aware that publication in this volume does not preclude future publication of their work elsewhere.
Papers should be emailed to Florian.
Deadline: Thursday, March 1st 2007
Recommended paper length: maximum 25 pages
Styleguide: (for LaTeX and Word submission guildelines)
http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~glsa/Publications/UMOP35/
Volume editors are Jan Anderssen, Keir Moulton, Florian Schwarz, and Cherlon Ussery.
Syntactic Structures Turns 50
Next month is very likely the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Chomsky's Syntactic Structures. Barbara Partee raised the question of which 1957 month it was, and Kai von Fintel assembled the evidence that points to February:
- On the publication date of Syntactic Structures (Jan Noordegraff, 2001)
- A letter from Chomsky to C.H. van Schoooneveld
- van Schooneveld, C.H. 2001. A brief comment re Jan Noordegraaf's "On the publication date of Syntactic Structures". Historiographia Linguistica XXVIII:3 468.
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
Raving Semanticist?
Read about Bo Martin Erik 'E-Type' Eriksson and his rivals Johan Anthony Willem "Discourse Ref" Kamp and Paul D. "VPE" Elbourne.
[Thanks Helen S!]
UMass Player Revives Double Triple-Double
With catchy statistical names in vogue, how about double triple-doubles?
[Thanks Barbara!]