Paul de Lacy Colloquium
Paul de Lacy
Rutgers
Preliminaries to a theory of glossolalia
Friday, April 6, 3:30 pm, Machmer E-37
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05:09 (2007-04-05)
April 5, 2007
Bill Hagamen (November 4, 1924 – March 26, 2007)
Bill Hagamen passed away on March 26. Barbara Partee has written a lovely essay about Bill's research and teaching on anatomy, his innovative early work on computational linguistics and its pedagogical applications, his long-time involvement with the department, and his friendships with the people in it.
[Thanks Barbara!]
Freeman Lecture: Geoff Nunberg
Linguist List Fund Drive Update
The Linguist List Grad School Challenge is off to a great start for our department. As of this writing, we are in 2nd place, with $1497 raised. We are second only to last year's champion, Stanford, but the margin is slim.
Can we get and hold the lead until April 13? These other schools are sure to swing into action now that we have risen quickly to a top spot. So keep the donations coming! Use the online forms or get your check to Peggy Speas, our coordinator for the drive.
Barbara Partee will give $10 for every UMass Amherst grad-student donation!
As we reported earlier this month, Barbara Partee spearheaded an effort to raise money for improving the coverge of Linguistics on Wikipedia. Vote "Yes" when you donate to the fund drive!
[Thanks Barbara and Peggy!]
Paul Elbourne Talk and Visit
Paul Elbourne is visiting next week. He will guest lecture in Angelika Kratzer's seminar (Tuesday, 2:30 pm, Machmer W-21), and he will also be available for meetings on Monday and on Tuesday morning. Write to Angelika by Friday if you would like to set something up.
[Thanks Angelika!]
Matt Wolf Talk
Matt Wolf will have a poster at the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 24-26, 2007, titled 'Phonology and morphology are in a single OT grammar'.
Report from Joe Pater
Joe Pater is in Europe this year, based in France, but travelling often to give special lectures and meet with fellows researchers. He filed this report from the road:
I'm spending the semester as a visitor at the Université de Nantes, where I get to talk with Jean-Pierre Angoujard, a specialist in Arabic phonology, and Olivier Crouzet, who works on phonetics and phonotactics. And conveniently enough, I've just developed an interest in French schwa. I'm also continuing to make visits further North. I'm writing from Tromsø, where I just gave a talk entitled The power of constraint weighting, and I was recently in Nijmegen where I talked about Gradual learning and gradient phonotactics.
Report from Barbara Partee and Volodja Borschev
On March 23, Barbara Partee and Volodja Borschev gave a talk in Russian at a research seminar at IPI RAN, a computational linguistics institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, 'Existential and locative sentences – What distinguishes them? Theme-rheme structure or diathesis?'.
On March 31, Barbara was invited to talk for the 100th seminar in V.A. Uspensky’s seminar series (now in its 51st year!) Applications of mathematical methods in linguistics; her talk was 'Type theory and natural language: Do we need two basic types?', based on her squib in Krifka’s 50th birthday fest.
On April 6, Barbara is an invited speaker in a Moscow student syntax conference, where she’ll give 'A brief history of the syntax-semantics interface in western formal linguistics'.
On April 13, Barbara and Volodja will give a version in Russian of their FASL 14 paper for the Cognitive Linguistics program at the University of Kazan.
And on May 6, their Gang of Five will give a new paper at FASL 16 at Stony Brook: Borschev, Paducheva, Partee, Testelets, and Yanovich, 'Russian genitives, non-referentiality, and the property-type hypothesis' (abstract PDF here).
Chris Potts Talks at Chicago
Chris Potts is giving three talks at the University of Chicago. One is a departmental colloquium. The other is a special lecture in Jason Riggle's Chicago Language Modeling Lab, a report on joint work with Joe Pater, Rajesh Bhatt, and Michael Becker. The third is a talk on expressives in the Workshop on Semantics and Philosophy of Language, organized by Chris Kennedy.