What's Happening In South College

SALT 18 Registration Open

Register now for SALT 18, UMass Amherst Linguistics, March 21-23, 2008.

January 24, 2008 12:11 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , events

WHAMIT!: MIT Linguistics Newsletter

MIT Linguistics now has an online newsletter, WHAMIT! (What's Happening at MIT!). Check it out in your browser, subscribe to the RSS feed, or get it by email. Kai von Fintel, Adam Albright, and Jonah Katz (2003 UMass Amherst BA) are at the helm.

[Thanks Kai!]

January 24, 2008 12:10 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , alums , miscellany

Parsons Yazzie and Speas Textbook in Stores Now

In bookstores now, Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo'aah: Rediscovering The Navajo Language Description, by Evangeline Parsons Yazzie and Peggy Speas.

January 24, 2008 12:08 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , faculty news , publications/presentations

Emmon Bach Letter from London

Professor Emeritus Emmon Bach writes:

A bit about what's going on with us. Wynn and I are hoping to be in Amherst for SALT. I am teaching (for the second time), a second level semanttics course at Oxford this term -- called Hilary in the Oxford dialect. Then just after SALT I will be at OSU for three weeks, doing a course on Morphosemantics and a couple of public lectures.

Cheers, hope to see everyone in March.

Best, Emmon

January 24, 2008 12:07 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , faculty news

Celia Jakubowicz has Passed Away

From Tom Roeper:

Celia Jakubowicz, the leading light of work in gernerative acqjuisition work in France for more than 20 years, died last week, of cancer. She worked at CNRS in Paris. She visited our department many times and gave talks at various workshops we held, reaching back to 1983, and most recently three years ago, so several of our faculty and students knew her.

She was involved in extending some of our work on wh-movement to French and had begun work on disordered populations in that area as well. She worked with determination until the end, editing a volume with another visitor here, Petra Schulz, which is still being completed and will be dedicated to her. The acquisition community has lost an important figure and friend. Celia was Argentinian and came to Paris as the wife of the Argentinian ambassador.

(I am recollecting these few details from memory because I have not yet gotten any official obituary.)

January 24, 2008 12:06 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , visiting scholars

George Horn has Passed Away

From Ola Horn, via Emmon Bach:

I am writing to tell you that George passed away suddenly (and totally unexpectedly) this past July at the age of 65, while getting ready to go out for his morning walk/jog that he had enjoyed for years. He moved us all to Baltimore in 2004, having retired from the University of Newcastle the year before. He certainly did not enjoy his retirement for a long time, but got to spend some time back home, where he always wanted to return.

George Horn received his PhD in Linguistics from UMass Amherst in 1975.

January 24, 2008 12:04 AM | permalink | 06:01 (2008-01-24) , alums