SNEWS This Saturday
SNEWS takes place this Saturday, October 20, at MIT. Jesse Harris and Andrew McKenzie are the UMass Amherst presenters, and a whole crew of South College linguists is attending.
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05:27 (2007-10-18)
October 18, 2007
Workshop Reminder: Where does Syntax Come From?
Semantics Reading Group
SRG meets today (October 18), 8:00 pm, at Jan and Aynat's place. The meeting will feature a presentation by Elizabeth Smith (Fall 2007 visitor from OSU). Elizabeth will talk about her recent work on the semantics of English comparative correlatives (title and abstract).
Talks by Lisa Green
Lisa Green is giving a colloquium at the University of Rochester today (October 18). It's called 'Negative and inversion and negative focus'.
In addition, Lisa will give a lecture in the Rochester Distinguished Lecture Series tomorrow (October 19). That talk is called 'Communicative competence and child African American English'. That lecture is part of Rochester's Meliora Weekend.
John Kingston at HOWL 4
John Kingston gave a well-received tutorial 'Interaction vs. autonomy' and talk 'New arguments for autonomy' at HOWL 4 this past weekend.
John reports, "It was a very stimulating meeting, with a day spent on phonetics and phonology (Sunday) and another on what humans (both adults and infants) and non-humans know about number. The highlights for me were the debate with Jay McClelland about whether speech perception is interactive, but also the rational analysis perspective into which Colin Wilson cast the phonetics and phonology talks."
Deaf Poetry Jam
Compelling, often amusing three-minute Deaf (Def) Poetry Jam
David Harrison on The Colbert Report
Kitchen Under Attack
Kitchen Monsters will come to attack our fridge this Friday, October 19th! So secure your food by simply put your NAME and DATE on anything you have in the fridge. Otherwise, the K Monsters will take it away!
[Thanks Misato!]
Why Philosophers (and Cognitive Scientists) Dress Poorly
Law professors dress scruffily, and we need to do something about that...
[Thanks John!]
Call: Syntax of the World's Languages III
Call for papers: Syntax of the World's Languages III
Berlin, September 25-29, 2008
[Thanks Barbara!]