Subordination in language development
A workshop associated with GALA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), September 6-8, 2007
Invited speaker: Josef Perner (Salzburg)
Call for papers deadline: March 15
Organized by Bart Hollebrandse and Uli Sauerland
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The New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies
5th Annual Summer Institute
June 29 - July 27, 2007
Deadline for applications: April 16, 2007
UMass Amherst linguists Vladimir Borschev, Barbara Partee, and Chris Potts have taught at the NYI in past years.
Check-out the website or this poster for more details.
SULA 4 (Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas) will take place May 24-26, 2007, in São Paulo. Three UMass Amherst linguists are presenting:
In addition, Angelika Kratzer is a member of the SULA scientific committee.
A bunch of UMass Amherst linguists will be presenting at SALT 17, UConn, May 11-13:
Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam) gave a special lecture on Wednesday, March 7. The title of the talk was 'Wh-Questions without wh-words: evidence from signed and spoken languages'. The abstract is below.
[Thanks Kyle!]
The Evidentials Group/Acqusition Lab met on March 5. Anna Verbuk and Catherine Léger presented.
The next meeting is on March 12, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. Tanja Heizmann will present some of her experimental items for her work on exhaustivity, and Valentine Hacquard will present joint work done with Emily Sowalsky on epistemics and embeddings.
[Thanks Youri!]
PhG met on Tuesday, March 6. Matt Wolf presented 'Mutation and learnability in OT'.
PhG meets once more before spring break. The group will discuss last year's Language article 'Against formal phonology'. Emily Alling, UMass Amherst librarian and erstwhile phonologist, provides this link to the article, which will work on campus with no fuss and off-campus via the proxy server.
[Thanks Kathryn P and Emily!]
SRG will meet next on Wednesday, March 14, 8:00 pm, Aynat and Jan's place. The topic will be Robert van Rooij and Katrin Schulz's paper 'Exhaustive interpretation of complex sentences'.
[Thanks Florian!]
[Thanks Meg!]
Veena Dwivedi (1994 UMass Amherst PhD) has accepted a position in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Ontario. Veena continues to work on the syntax--semantics interface, but her research has taken a more psycholinguistic turn of late. She reports that she is now using "super cool EEG techniques" to investigate semantic processing. Along with Natalie Philips and Shari Baum, she's just received a three-year SSHRC grant to continue these projects.
