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05:24 (2007-09-27)
September 27, 2007
UMMM
UMMM (UMass Amherst MIT Meeting in Phonology) will take place here at UMass Amherst this Saturday, September 29, in the Linguistics Department Lounge. Here is the program in PDF.
[Thanks John K!]
Syntax Reading Group
The first meeting of the syntax reading group will be held today (September 27), 8:00 pm, at Rajesh's house. The event will feature a talk by guest Rob Truswell entitled 'Event Structure, Phrase Structure, and A'-Locality.' Here's an abstract for the talk.
As background reading, Rob recommends either or both or any combination thereof of the following "two short proceedings papers which overlap with what I'm going to speak about (and each other)":
- A Semantic Constraint on Wh-Movement: Extended events and extraction from in order clauses. To appear in this year's ConSOLE Proceedings.
- Tense, Events, and Extraction from Adjuncts. Submitted to this year's CLS proceedings.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Partee-Borschev Grant Open Meeting
The Genitive of Negation grant group will meet on Tuesday, October 2, at 12:45 pm in the Partee Room. Keir Moulton will be presenting on 'Clausal Complementation and Subject Raising'.
Abstract [handout]
I will present an account for a long-standing puzzle about restrictions on raising to object constructions (the Derived Object Constraint (DOC), Postal 1974). I show that verbs subject to the DOC do not by themselves select for complement clauses, and I argue that their complement is instead selected by a higher (functional) head. This has the effect of allowing only a subset of movement options out of the clause. General implications, and predictions, for the nature of clausal complementation will be discussed.
[Thanks Aynat!]
Philosophy Colloquium: Michael Smith
Michael Smith
Princeton
Norms, kinds, and functions
Friday, September 28, 3:30 pm, Bartlett 206
Living Tongues Project in the News
K. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson have been in the news a lot over the last few weeks, for things related to their Enduring Voices project for National Geographic. Here are some links:
- Enduring Voices (National Geographic)
- Languages Die, but Not Their Last Words (New York Times, Sep 19)
- Vigil for the Vanishing Tongue (New York Times Week in Review, Sep 23)
- Living Tongues, Harrison and Anderson's nonprofit foundation dedicated to language preservation and revitalization (make a donation!)
Apple Tasting
From Rajesh
Dear Malus Domestica afficionados,
This is a reminder that the apple tasting is coming up. It is scheduled to happen coming Saturday, September 29, at Rajesh's house. Here is what you can expect:
- Many kinds of apples: Akane, Cortland, Gala, Honeycrisp, Macoun, two kinds of Mcintosh (ordinary and Red Max), Shamrock, and `Silken'. This last variety was supplied to me under secretive circumstances by the wonderful people at Cold Spring Orchards. I would tell you their name but I have been instructed specifically not to. I have also been told that if I return at an appointed time on Saturday, there may be more `Silken' apples to be had.
- Goods, baked and other, made from these apples. If you'd like to make something for the tasting, please let me know and I will get the apples of your choice (see above list) to you.
- Pinot Noirs from Oregon. Mostly from the Willamette Valley.
- Itinerant phonologists from all over New England.
Contributions in the form of a nice bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir or something made from apples would be most welcome. Otherwise you could contribute $6 (students)/$12 (faculty) towards the cause.
RSVPs would be greatly appreciated.
- Rajesh
New Open-Access Journal
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology is a new open-access journal in computational linguistics. The journal is now accepting submissions. Its editors are Annie Zaenen, Bonnie Weber, and Martha Palmer, with an all-star editorial board as well.
[Thanks Barbara!]
