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06:08 (2008-03-13)
March 13, 2008
Syntax Reading Group Today
The other SRG meets today (March 13). Masaaki Kimaya (Hamblin College) and Tom Roeper will present their paper, coauthored with Angeliek van Hout, entitled 'Covert movement, reconstruction, and edge phenomena in English and Japanese nominalizations'. The meting starts at 8:00 pm, at Rajesh's house.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Tlingit, Navajo and Siberia...
From Seth Cable:
I wanted to briefly draw your attention to the fact that a truly historic result has just been publicly announced on Linguist List. It has now been more-or-less officially accepted that the Na-Dene languages (e.g., Tlingit, Eyak, Athabaskan) are genetically related to the Yeniseic languages of Siberia (e.g., Ket).
The result has been endorsed by a "who's who" of specialists (Krauss, Leer, Kari, Nichols, Comrie, etc.), following a special "crisis" workshop at UAF a couple weeks ago. They made an 'official announcement' on Linguist List.
This result is not only of importance to linguists working on these languages. Most exciting of all is the fact that this is the very first fully accepted American-Asian super-family, and was established using the fully rigorous methods of internal reconstruction (rather than the looser methods of 'mass-comparison').
Very Exciting Stuff!
[Thanks Seth!]
HUMDRUM at Rutgers
From Rutgers organizer Michael O'Keefe:
Rutgers Linguistics will be hosting this year's HUMDRUM on the weekend of April 26-27. Grad students working on any topic relating to Optimality Theory are invited to present their research. It is worth emphasizing that this is intended to be a useful workshop for grad students, so you are welcome to present work in any stage of development. If you would like to present, I ask that you please email me by Saturday, March 15. I don't need any information right now unless you have it. (If you do have a title or general topic area you can give me, great, but there's no need right now.)
Past experience indicates that no date suits everyone. If you absolutely can't present on the weekend of April 26-27, but you would like to otherwise, please let me know what your commitments are and we'll see if we can arrange anything.
Recent Acquisition Lab Meetings
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, March 10, at 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. Tanja Heizmann and Amy Patno presented their experimental work 'Exhaustivity versus Maximality'.
The Acquisition Lab also held a special meeting on March 12. Insa Gülzow (ZAS) presented her work on reciprocals and reflexives in German and the 'Strongest Meaning Principle'.
[Thanks Tom!]
Team Kingston at NEST
On March 8, John Kingston, Shigeto Kawahara, Della Chambless, Daniel Mash, and Eve Brenner-Alsop presented a talk called "Contextual effects on the perception of duration in speech and non-speech" at NEST (New England Sequence and Timing). NEST was held at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven. Michael Key and Sarah Watsky attended the meeting and helped quell the unruly hordes.
Nonconstituent Signage
[Thanks Kathryn!]
On William F. Buckley's Accent
[Thanks John!]
LOLspeak Translashun Dictionary
For more on this important computational linguistics project.