Anastasia Giannakidou Colloquium
Anastasia Giannakidou
University of Chicago
Polarity Sensitivity: How the labor is divided between syntax/semantics and pragmatics
Friday, September 21, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-25
Party after at Chris P's house.
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05:23 (2007-09-20)
September 20, 2007
Anastasia Giannakidou in Semantics Reading Group
Anastasia Giannakidou will visit the SRG today (September 20), 8:00 pm, at Jan and Aynat's place in Northampton. She will talk about tense and mood. A draft of the paper, 'Time for mood: the subjunctive revisited', is available here.
Anastasia will also be available to meet with students throughout the day tomorrow.
Ed Garrett Visiting
Edward Garrett, from Eastern Michigan University, will be visiting to work with the Evidentials project, September 21-25.
On Saturday, September 22, there will be an informal get-together + barbecue at Peggy's house (253 Shutesbury Rd., Leverett) beginning at 4:00 pm.
On Monday, September 24, Edward will present some of his work on Tibetan Evidentials to the grant group, at 12:15, in the Partee room.
Then, on Tuesday, September 25, Edward and Leah Bateman will be talking at Smith College about the field work that they did this summer. The meeting at Smith will be in Bass Hall 401 (or larger place to be posted on the door of 401).
All are welcome to any of these events. If you would like to make an appointment to meet with Edward during his visit, contact Peggy.
[Thanks Peggy!]
Freeman Lecture October 4
Geoff Nunberg will deliver the Freeman Lecture at 4:00 pm on October 4 in Bartlett 65.
What words can teach
Over the last century, "philology" has gone from the name of a central historical method in the humanities to an antiquated name for historical linguistics. Now, the advent of extensive online corpora promises to breathe new life into the philological enterprise. We can track the origin and development of words more accurately, rapidly, and in greater detail than was ever possible before and capture nuances of meaning that we could previously talk about only impressionistically.
Michael Walsh Dickey Moves to Pittsburgh
Mike Walsh Dickey (2000 UMass Amherst Linguistics PhD) has accepted a tenure-track job in the Department of Communication Science & Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh. Congratulations, Mike!