CSAAL, the Center for the Study of African-American Language, is hosting a workshop on formal approaches to variation, April 23-25. It will bring scholars who have worked on variation together with those who have made theoretical suggestions for representing it.
[Thanks Lisa G and Tom!]
From GLSA manager Jesse Harris:
The GLSA would like to give a hearty thanks to all those who participated in the bake sale yesterday afternoon. With the help of bakers and eaters alike, we were able to raise a whopping $566 in a mere two hours!!! The money raised is enough to cover not one but two years of advertising rights on Linguist List.
[Thanks Hungry Linguists!]
The Evidentials Grant group will meet on Monday, February 25, at 12:15pm in the Partee Room. Edward Garrett is visiting and will present work with Leah Bateman.
[Thanks Emily S!]
On Friday, February 15, John McCarthy appeared live on WBUR's Radio Boston in a show about the Boston dialect. John was one of the two on-air guests in this one-hour show Got an accent?, which also featured the accents of other Medfordites, some famous (Michael Bloomberg, Paul Theroux) and some not so famous.
Maria Biezma is presenting a paper called 'On deontic modality in Spanish' at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium, February 22-24.
Paul Pietroski
University of Maryland
Semantic monadicity with conceptual polyadicity
Friday, March 22, 3:30 pm, Bartlett 206
Chris Potts is a guest lecturer in Chris Barker's NYU seminar on dynamic semantics this Monday, February 25. The class will be called 'The dynamics of appositives', and the dynamic part is more or less fully implemented. The pragmatics part is, of course, a bit harder to squeeze into bits.
SRG meets next on March 6. The plan is to read chapter 4 of Angelika Kratzer's book The Event Argument and the Semantics of Verbs. We'll have the where and the when for you next week.
[Thanks Aynat!]
Ellen Woolford is a keynote speaker at DEAL II: Interface theories: the filtering of the output of the generator, which takes place in Leiden, February 22-23. Her paper is called Aspect splits.
Tom Roeper discussed his book The Prism of Grammar at the Wellesley Women's Forum in Boston, February 12. The next day, he was interviewed on Conversations, on Amherst Community TV.
The cover story of the current issue of National Geographic is about animal cognition. Animals are learning our language, and we're learning theirs. (Oops. Wrong link. Here it is.)
A plan to hold onto the candy, from the Candy Monster:
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