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05:13 (2007-05-03)
May 3, 2007
Seth Cable Joins the Faculty
Seth Cable has accepted our offer! He joins the faculty this coming fall, as Assistant Professor in semantics, and he will be in residence starting in Fall 2008.
We would, of course, have been delighted to have Seth start this coming fall. But he has received a prestigious Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, which puts him at UBC next year, where he will work to enhance his skills as a field linguist.
Welcome, Seth!
Paula Menendez-Benito, 2007-8 Visiting Professor in Semantics
We're delighted to report that Paula Menéndez-Benito has accepted our offer to teach here next year. Paula received her PhD from UMass Amherst Linguistics (that's us!) in 2005. She has since taught at UC Santa Cruz and MIT. She will probably teach our semantics proseminar in the Fall and Ling 620 (Formal Semantics) in the spring, along with some graduate training instruction. Welcome back, Paula!
UUSLAW
UUSLAW will meet at UConn this Saturday (May 5). We don't yet have the schedule, but there will be papers from Tanja Heizmann, Angeliek van Hout (reporting on ongoing work with Lisa Green, Bart Hollebrandse, and Tom Roeper), and Jill de Villiers and Tom Roeper, along with a host of papers from UConn whose names we don't yet have.
Rides are available for anyone interested.
[Thanks Tom!]
Maribel Romero Visit
From Angelika:
Maribel Romero (1998 UMass Amherst PhD; now Associate Professor at Penn) will talk in my seminar on May 8, 2:30-5:15, Machmer W-21. Everyone is welcome to attend. You don't have to be a regular participant. Maribel will talk about biased questions. The recommended readings are:
- Romero, M. and C.-H. Han. 2004. "On Negative Yes/No Questions", Linguistics and Philosophy 27.5, pp. 609-658
- van Rooij, R. and M. Safarova. 2003. On polar questions. Proceedings of SALT 13. CLC Publications.
Maribel will be here from Tuesday (May 8) to Thursday (May 10). Let me know whether you want to schedule an appointment with her and what your time constraints are.
Speech Data Management System
Tyler Kendall (NC State and Duke) visited this week to present NC SLAAP, the North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. Tyler also consulted with faculty and students, and he worked to set up a version of NC SLAAP here in UMass Amherst Linguistics, where it can serve CSAAL and various other projects in the department. Our thanks to Tyler for sharing his ideas and his code with us!
2007 Egg School in Brno
This year's Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar (the Egg School) will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, July 30 - August 10. Registration starts today and runs until May 16. This is a great opportunity for undergraduates and graduate students alike to study linguistics and see a bit of the world. Register today!
[Thanks Angelika!]
Hara and Kawahara in the Evidentials Group
Shigeto Kawahara and Yurie Hara will present their work on intonation and evidentiality in Japanese at the evidentials grant group meeting on Monday, May 7, at 12:30 pm in the Partee Room. Here's the abstract.
[Thanks Peggy!]
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Phonology Group
PhG meets on Tuesday, May 8, at 4:00 pm, in the Partee Room. Emily Elfner will give a practice talk for the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
Syntax Reading Group
Syntax Reading Group meets today (May 3), at Kyle's house, starting at 8:00 pm. Maziar Toosarvandani will present his ongoing work on sluicing in Farsi.
TA Training Seminar
The Linguistics TA Training Seminar will take place on Monday, May 21, 10:30-2:30, with a break for lunch (which will be catered).
A note from John Kingston:
If you have not taught a section of 201 independently and you're scheduled to teach one next year, you must attend the seminar. Although I and a number of other faculty will attend and offer advice about how to teach this class, the most valuable contributions come from experienced TAs, who will also attend. Of course, anyone else is welcome to attend.
[Thanks John!]
Funny Indefinites Workshop
Workshop on Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages
Berlin, Germany, July 6-7, 2007