Shai Cohen to UC Santa Cruz
Shai Cohen has accepted a visiting assistant professorship in Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
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05:15 (2007-05-17)
May 17, 2007
Valentine Hacquard to Maryland
Valentine Hacquard has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.
Gaja Jarosz to Yale
Gaja Jarosz has accepted a tenure-track offer from the Department of Linguistics at Yale.
Shigeto Kawahara to the University of Georgia
Shigeto Kawahara has accepted a tenure-track offer in Linguistics at the University of Georgia.
Youri Zabbal to Boston University
Youri Zabbal has accepted a visiting assistant professorship in Linguistics at Boston University.
University Fellowship to Matt Wolf
Matt Wolf has received a University Fellowship for the 2007-8 academic year. Congratulations, Matt!
Semantics and Pragmatics: New Open-Access Journal
At SALT 17 this past weekend, David Beaver and Kai von Fintel announced a new open-access journal called Semantics and Pragmatics. The editors' blog is an ongoing discussion of how the journal will work.
[Thanks David and Kai!]
Rajesh Bhatt at McGill
Rajesh Bhatt gave four (4!) talks at McGill last week (May 7-10). Two of the talks were on the syntax of unaccusativity and passives in Hindi-Urdu and Differential Subject/Object Marking. The other two reported joint work with Shoichi Takahashi on phrasal comparatives.
MIT Greek Syntax-Semantics Workshop
The MIT Greek Syntax–Semantics Workshop takes place May 20-22. The UMass Amherst presenters are Rajesh Bhatt and Kyle Johnson, Paula Menéndez-Benito (2005 UMass Amherst Linguistics Phd; returning as a visiting professor next year) is also on the program, as are this year's Syntax Guru Roumi Pancheva and a host of prestigious UMass Amherst alums: Gennaro Chierchia, Kai von Fintel, Irene Heim, Winnie Lechner.
SULA 4
SULA 4 takes place in São Paulo, May 24-26. The program includes papers by Amy Rose Deal, Andrew McKenzie, and Keir Moulton, as well as a commentary by Angelika Kratzer.
SALT 17 Report
There was a very strong UMass Amherst presence at SALT 17 this past weekend. Many students turned out to hear the talks and ask insightful questions. And the program included a joint paper by Rajesh Bhatt and Shoichi Takahashi, a joint paper by Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Peggy Speas, as well as an invited lecture by UMass Amherst Linguistics alum Gennaro Chierchia (1984 PhD; now Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics at Harvard) and a paper by former visitor Uli Sauerland (ZAS).
Titan Arum (the Corpse Flower)
[Thanks for the photo Barbara!]
Yurie Hara at LENLS 2007
Yurie Hara will present a paper a LENLS 2007, June 18-19, Miyazaki, Japan. Yurie's time as a visitor here in South College comes to a close soon. She's headed next to Amsterdam. All the best, Yurie!
Tlingit Revitalization in the News
From Seth:
I am writing now with some items that I thought may be of interest to many of you, particularly those of you with interests in language endangerment and revitalization.
The following are links to two news pieces that have aired recently on local Alaskan TV stations. They both concern programs aimed at preserving and revitalizing the Tlingit language.
The first segment concerns the Tlingit Immersion camps that have been run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. The second concerns the Tlingit translation of MacBeth that has been written and performed by the Perseverance Theater, and which was recently presented at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian. There's lots of great footage in both the pieces, with some nice appearances by various prominent Tlingit community leaders. (However, there's not really any analysis of the impact of either of these programs.)