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05:28 (2007-10-25)

October 25, 2007

Cedric Boeckx Visit

The Syntax Reading Group welcomes

Cedric Boeckx
Harvard

On some basic ingredients of Narrow Syntax

Thursday, October 25, 8:00 pm, Rajesh Bhatt's house

[Thanks Annahita!]

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Jerry Fodor Philosophy Colloquium

Jerry Fodor
State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers

Against Darwinism

Friday, October 26, 3:30 pm, Bartlett 61

Speas and Parsons Yazzie Navajo Textbook

Peggy Speas and Evangeline Parsons Yazzie have published a textbook on Navajo, and it is currently available for pre-order.

Speas and Parsons Yazzie: Rediscovering The Navajo Language

Acquistion Lab Meeting

The Acquisition Lab meets on Monday, October 29, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room:

  • Tanja Heizmann: BU practice talk on Exhaustivity
  • Emily Sowalsky: Experiments on Recursive Bubbles
  • Jill de Villiers: Autism and Conventional Implicatures

Everyone is welcome!

[Thanks Tom!]

Partee-Borschev Grant Meetings

The Genitive of Negation Grant group will be meeting almost every Tuesday in November. Meetings will feature presentations by Misato Hiraga (November 6), Annahita Farudi (November 13), and Amy Rose Deal (November 20). Stay tuned for more information as the talks come up!

[Thanks Aynat!]

Edward Garrett Visited on October 22

Edward Garrett visited the Evidentials Grant group on Monday, October 22, to talk about acquisition experiments on pronouns and deixis in Navajo, Tibetan and English.

[Thanks Peggy!]

The Office on Whomever

YouTube clip: The Office denizens on case-marking in English