The following are confirmed colloquia for the semester. We expect also to hear talks from Charles Yang and Hans Broekhuis. Updates and confirmations later in the semester.
| Sep 21 | Anastasia Giannakidou |
| Oct 4 | Geoff Nunberg (Freeman Lecture) |
| Nov 30 | Donca Steriade |
| Dec 7 | Roger Schwarzschild |
| Dec 14 | Veneeta Dayal |
[Thanks Joe!]
On Monday, September 17, at 2:30 pm, Markus Bader will speak in Lyn Frazier's graduate psycholinguistics class (Herter 106). The title of his talk is 'Parsing and branching direction.' Everyone is welcome to attend.
[Thanks Lyn!]
A first (organizational) meeting of the syntax reading group will be held tomorrow (September 14), at 4:30 (or immediately following the GLSA meeting, if it should end later than 4:30). The group will discuss scheduling for this semester, as well as potential topics, articles, and so forth.
One guest speaker is already anticipated: Cedric Boeckx (Harvard) will speak at some point early in the semester.
You've invited to come with suggestions for articles you would be interested in reading and/or presenting. Also, if you have work of your own you would like to present, or if you need to give a practice talk, please consider using Syntax Reading Group as a forum.
If you can't make the meeting but have scheduling concerns or article suggestions, please let Annahita know. Also, drop her a note if you are interested in presenting.
[Thanks Annahita!]
The SNEWS 2007 website is up. The UMass Amherst presenters will be Jesse Harris and Andrew McKenzie.
The GLSA will hold its first fall meeting tomorrow (September 14) at 3:30 pm, in Machmer, in one of the empty W-2* rooms. On the agenda: determining monsterships, general GLSA business, and UMOPs.
[Thanks Jesse!]
The semester's first Genitive of Negation grant meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 18, at 12:45 pm in the Partee Room.
From Barbara:
As in previous years, we will have a number of open meetings this semester for project participants and anyone else who is interested to discuss project research and topics that are related to the project. The project is The Russian Genitive of Negation: Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics, and there are many relevant issues, which need not concern Russian; see the description of the project on the website.
On the agenda of the first meeting:
[Thanks Aynat and Barbara!]
A number of UMass Amherst linguists are presenting work at Sinn und Bedeutung 12, in Oslo, September 20-22:
| Amy Rose Deal | Property-type objects and modal embedding |
| Luis Alonso-Ovalle (UMass Boston; 2005 UMass Amherst PhD) | Innocent Exclusion in an Alternative Semantics |
| Ana Arregui (Ottawa; 2003 UMass Amherst PhD) | On past facts and the semantics of counterfactuals |
| Francesca Foppolo (Milano-Bicocca; former SC visitor) | Between 'cost' and 'default' of scalar implicature |
| Irene Heim (1982 UMass Amherst PhD) | Invited talk |
| Valentine Hacquard (Maryland; 2006-7 Partee Visiting Professor) | Restructuring and implicative properties of volere |
| Uli Sauerland (ZAS; former SC visitor) | Hardt’s surprising sloppy readings: A flat binding account |
| Lynsey Wolter (Rochester; former SC visitor) | That is Rosa: Identificational sentences as intensional predication |
Amy Rose Deal will given an invited talk on Sept 25 at the CUNY syntax supper entitled 'Ergative case and the transitive subject: a view from Nez Perce'. She will also present related work at the MIT ergativity research seminar on Oct 31.
Kyle Johnson is teaching a course on the copy theory of movement and multidominant trees at Ecole d'Automne de Linguistique in Paris, September 24-27.
From Node Monster Meg Grant:
I hope the semester is starting off well for everyone. In addition to the semi-annual reminder to return overdue books, I have a couple of announcements concerning the Node.
A final thanks to Kyle and Ellen for making the Node much neater!
[Thanks Meg!]
A conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is to be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on April 11-13, 2008. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working on prosody from different fields, including phonetics, phonology, semantics, language processing, neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics. The conference organizers are Duane Watson, Michael Wagner, and Ted Gibson. Select papers from the conference will appear in a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 18, 2008.
[Thanks Lisa!]
This recent Crooked Timber post links to lots of other good weblog posts about surviving grad school.
