PhG meets next on November 27, at Karen Jesney's place in Northampton, starting at 7:00 pm. The plan is to get ready for Donca Steriade's colloquium (November 30) by studying her Lexical conservatism and the notion base of affixation.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
Rajesh Bhatt gave a talk in the Ergativity Research Seminar at MIT on November 14. The title was 'Ergativity in Indo-Aryan Languages'.
On October 31, Amy Rose gave a talk titled 'Case and caselessness in Nez Perce' in the Ergativity Research Seminar at MIT.
[Thanks Rajesh!]
UMOP 36 (Computational Phonology) is now available from amazon.com. Use the link at the GLSA website, so that the GLSA gets a kick-back.
[Thanks Amy Rose!]
"Many of the keyboards, though, have buttons for the kids' friends, family, and pets...."
Coincidences in Linguistics (beware the statistical accidents)
Update: Seth Cable writes, "Nice to see Tlingit represented, though the entry is a bit off: daughter is actually /si:/, which when combined with the diminutive /-k'/ gives you /si:k'/. So, the word they have in mind is /si:k'/, not /sik/, and it means little/beloved daughter, not just daughter...)"
From the article:
These skills can include the ability to be very analytical, provide clear and innovative thinking, and question assumptions
(via Brian Leiter)
