Jessica Rett Colloquium
Jessica Rett
Rutgers University
The distribution of evaluativity
Friday, February 9, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
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05:02 (2007-02-08)
February 8, 2007
Jessica Rett Special Lecture
Today (Feb 8) at 4:00 pm, in Machmer E10, Jessica Rett will give a special seminar. It will be aimed at specialists, but all are of course welcome. The title is 'On exclamatives'.
Edward Garrett Visit
Edward Garrett, who wrote a recent dissertation on evidentials in Tibetan, will be visiting the department next week, Monday and Tuesday February 12 and 13. Find Peggy if you'd like to sign up for a meeting with him. There will be a potluck dinner at Tom's house Monday evening (the 12th). All are welcome!
[Thanks Peggy!]
Tom Roeper's New Book
We're a bit late on this, but we won't let that get in the way of our celebration: Tom Roeper's new book The Prism of Grammar: How Child Language Illuminates Humanism has been published by MIT Press. The title says it all: this is serious linguistics that aims to provide important general lessons and insights about the human experience.
Update: It turns out that we're not late on this, we're early. Amazon says January 1, but they apparently haven't told MIT Press about this. We can, it seems, expect the book in early March, at which point we should all write reviews at Amazon.
Evidentials Group/Acquistion Lab
The Evidentials Group/Acquisition Lab met on February 5. Jay Garfield, Namgyal Norbu, and Jill de Villiers presented 'Beginning explorations in the acquisition of Tibetan evidentials'.
Phonology Group
PhG will meet on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm in the Partee Room this semester. Here's a look at the next few meetings:
| Feb 13 | Kathryn Flack | her recent computational modeling work |
| Feb 20 | Shigeto Kawahara | practice talk |
| Feb 27 | John McCarthy | discussion of, and feedback on, his new OT Guide manuscript |
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
LSA Summer Institute Fellowships by Feb 12
LSA Summer Institute tuition fellowship applications are due on Monday, November 12 --- this coming Monday!
The Institute is at Stanford this year. It's a chance to escape the heat of the Happy Valley for a spell, and the Institute itself is a chance to broaden your intellectual horizons.
Here's a rundown of the UMass Amherst professors teaching there:
- Chuck Clifton: Experimental Design for Linguists
- Christopher Potts
- Dimensions of Meaning
- Conversational Inference (with David Beaver and Robert van Rooij)
- Logic for Linguists (presession course)
- Joe Pater: Introduction to Phonological Theory
Amy Rose Deal at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Amy Rose Deal will present 'The origin and content of expletives: evidence from "selection"' at the 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, February 23-25, 2007.
Ellen Woolford in Nijmegen
Ellen Woolford was hard at work in Nijmegen this January. Here's a rundown of her activities:
- Deriving transitivity effects on Case, invited talk at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University (January 18)
- A course on Case and Agreement at the 2007 LOT Winter School, January 8-19, Radboud University
Upcoming Visit by John and Angela Rickford
Angela Rickford and John Rickford will visit the UMass Amherst Linguistics Department at the end of April. The visit will include a talk, probably on Friday, April 27. WHISC will have more details later in the semester.
[Thanks Barbara Z P!]
Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations
Workshop on Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations, University of the Basque Country, May 23-25, 2007.
[Thanks Angeliek!]
2007 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
From the website:
Like former Olympiads, NAMCLO is a Linguistics contest. It challenges you to demonstrate your ability to understand and analyze human language. Unlike former contests, however, the NAMCLO focuses on Computational Linguistics problems, in addition to general linguistic ones.