Susi Wurmbrand Colloquium
Susi Wurmbrand
UConn
Thoughts on the syntax and semantics of invinitival tense
Friday, April 11, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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06:12 (2008-04-10)
April 10, 2008
Semantics Reading Group
SRG meets today (April 10), 8:00 pm, at Jan and Aynat's place in Northampton. The plan is to discuss Peter Lasersohn's 1992 L&P article Generalized conjunction and temporal modification.
[Thanks Martin!]
Phonology Group
PhG meets next on Wednesday, April 16. Gillian Gallagher (UMass Amherst Linguistics BA; now a PhD candidate at MIT) will return to present.
Undergrad Linguistics Club
The Undergrad Linguistics Club met yesterday (April 9), at 6:00 pm, in the Bluewall.
[Thanks Tea!]
Mini-report on Two Moscow Conferences, from Barbara
We just had a busy week with two conferences for young researchers back-to-back (making it easier for people to come for both), one on formal syntax and the other on formal semantics and pragmatics. Both international, both organized by students and young researchers, both very successful! I did no work — I just continued as "honorary mentor for the program committee" of the semantics conference.
The syntax conference, April 3-4, was the second in its series, Syntactic Structures 2: it was started on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Syntactic Structures, whence its name. All but one of the talks were in English; about half were by linguists from Moscow or St Petersburg, with other participants from the US, Norway, Germany, and Spain. Invited speakers were David Pesetsky, Maria Polinsky, Peter Svenonius (Tromsø) Anton Zimmerling (Moscow), and Ekaterina Lyutikova (Moscow). There's a very nice website for the conference (and also about last year's), in English. I'm flattered that they used 5 of my photos from last year's conference on the frame page. Nice portrait photos from day 2 of the conference by Peter Arkadiev are here.
The semantics/pragmatics conference was Formal Semantics in Moscow 4 (FSIM 4), on April 5. The invited speaker was Manfred Krifka. There was one paper by a Moscow student, and others by young linguists from France, Germany, Utrecht/Beijing, and the US. The website is here . A few photos are in my Live Journal, and more on my Flickr site. More by Peter Arkadiev are on his Picasa site.
The week was made even more lively by invited talks at various venues by Peter Svenonius, David Pesetsky (on language and music), and Manfred Krifka. Manfred and I went to a concert by the military orchestra of the Russian Ministry of Defense after his talk, in the Moscow Conservatory – that was fun.
Laura Holland Letter in the NY Times
Laura Holland recently had a letter published in the New York Times.
[Thanks Barbara!]
Amalia Gnanadesikan to Holy Family University
Amalia Gnanadesikan (1997 UMass Amherst Linguistics PhD) has accepted a permanent faculty position at Holy Family University in northeast Philadelphia. She'll be teaching writing. Amalia has been a regular contributor to The Vocabula Review. Her popular book The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet is in press at Blackwell.
[Thanks John!]
Intensionality Workshop at Yale
There will be a workshop on intensionality at Yale on April 12. The conference venue is located in Connecticut Hall, which houses the department of philosophy at Yale.
| 10:00 | Graeme Forbes (University of Colorado) | Psychological Attitude Verbs: A Unified Account |
| 11:45 | Frederike Moltmann (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Paris) | Intensional Verbs and the Nominalization Theory of Special Qauntifiers |
| 3:00 | George Bealer (Yale University) | Intensionality and Logical Form |
| 4:45 | Mark Richard (Tufts University) | Content and Semantics |
[Thanks Rajesh!]
Tufts Workshop on Semiproductivity
Tufts University is hosting a workshop on semiproductivity in grammar, May 3-4.
[Thanks Kathy!]