Rickfords Special Lecture
Angela and John Rickford, April 27 --- reception at 4:00 pm, talk at 4:30 pm, School of Management Room 137.
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05:12 (2007-04-26)
April 26, 2007
Rajesh Bhatt's Book Published
Rajesh Bhatt's new book Covert Modality in Non-Finite Contexts has just been published by Mouton de Gruyter, in their Interface Explorations series.
Congratulations, Rajesh!
13th Undergraduate Research Conference
13th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
Friday, April 27, Lincoln Campus Center Auditorium, UMass Amherst, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Graduate Mini-Conference
Wednesday, May 16, Math Lounge, Lederle Tower
| 9:00 | Maria Biezma |
| 9:30 | Chris Davis |
| 10:00 | Amy Rose Deal |
| 10:30 | Karen Jesney |
| 11:00 | Masashi Hashimoto |
| 11:30 | lunch |
| 1:00 | Kathryn Pruitt |
| 1:30 | Annahita Farudi |
| 2:00 | Aynat Rubinstein |
[Thanks Kathy and Kyle!]
Roumi Pancheva in the Syntax and Semantics Readings Groups
Syntax Guru Roumi Pancheva is speaking today (April 26) in a joint meeting of the Syntax and Semantics Readings Groups. Her talk, joint work with Uffe Bergeton, is called 'On the history of English reflexives and intensifiers'. The meeting starts at 8:00 pm at Amy Rose's place.
The semester's final meeting of the Syntax Reading Group will be on May 3. Maziar Toosarvandani will present.
[Thanks Cherlon and Florian!]
Phonology Group
PhG met on Tuesday, April 24. Gaja Jarosz gave a practice talk for CLS 43.
On May 1, John McCarthy will talk about stress/syncope interactions.
On May 8, Emily Elfner willl give a practice talk for the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
All these meetings take place in South College 301, starting at 4:00 pm.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
Proceedings of SULA 3 hit the (virtual) shelves!
GLSA is very pleased to welcome the Proceedings of Semantics of the Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 3 to the UMOP family. The volume is published as UMOP 33, and edited by Andrew McKenzie and Michael Becker. You can be transported to its page on amazon.com just by clicking on the cover image below!
Five College Cognitive Science Seminar
Alan Gilchrist
Rutgers University
Computation of surface lightness in simple and complex images
Monday, April 30, 3:30 pm, School of Management Room 133
Cognitive Brown Bag Talk
Dietmar Roehm
Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
The perplexity of language-related ERP components: Some insights from time-frequency analysis
Wednesday, May 2, 12:00 pm, Tobin 521B
[Thanks Adrian!]
Recent Talks by Rajesh Bhatt
Rajesh Bhatt was at OSU earlier this month (April 5-6) to give two talks:
- Unaccusativity and Case
- Systematic Ambiguity [joint work with Shoichi Takahashi]
More recently, Rajesh was at GLOW, in Tromso, Norway, also reporting on joint work with Shoichi. Rajesh writes, "This is the only conference I've been to where the conference party involved dog-sledding."
Harvard Workshop on Movement
There will be a workshop on movement at Harvard, May 7. Here is the program.
[Thanks Kyle!]
MIT Workshop on Greek Syntax and Semantics
There will be a workshop on Greek syntax and semantics at MIT, May 20-22. Here is the program.
[Thanks Rajesh!]