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06:21 (2008-09-04)
September 4, 2008
NIH Grant to Clifton and Frazier
Lyn Frazier and Chuck Clifton have just been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project is called Language Comprehension: Mechanisms of Co-Variation. Congratulations, Lyn and Chuck!
NSF Science and Learning Grant to Speas and Roepe
Peggy Speas and Tom Roeper have received a grant from the NSF's Science and Learning Center program to hold a large international workshop on recursion in the spring. The grant runs for a full year and provides for student support. Congratulations, Tom and Peggy!
Ilaria Frana to Göttingen
Ilaria Frana has accepted, and begun, a post-doc at Georg-August University in Göttingen, working with Magdalena Schwager. Congratulations, Ilaria!
Chris Potts on the LSA Executive Committee Ballot
Chris Potts is on the ballot for the LSA Executive Committee. Check out his ballot statement, and then vote online at the LSA website.
Paula Menendez-Benito to Göttingen
Paula Menéndez-Benito, 2007-8 Visiting Assistant Professor here in UMass Amherst Linguistics, has accepted, and begun, a post-doc at Georg-August University in Göttingen, working with Regine Eckardt. Congratulations, Paula!
Acquisition/Evidentials Group Meeting
The language acquisition and evidentials project groups will have their first meeting of the semester on Monday, September 8, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. The meeting will be mostly organizational, but all are welcome.
[Thanks Peggy!]
North East Computational Phonology Workshop Nov 15
Word from Gaja Jarosz (former UMass Amherst Visiting Professor, now Assistant Professor at Yale): the second annual meeting of the North East Computational Phonology Workshop wil take place on Saturday, November 15, at Yale.
[Thanks Joe and Gaja!]
UMass Amherst Linguists at the IASCL
UMass Amherst Linguistics was well-represented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, held in Edinburgh this year, July 28 to August 1. There was a session on presuppositions organized by UMass Amherst grad Ana Perez and UMass Amherst visitor Petra Schulz. Both also gave talks, as did Tanja Heizmann and Tom Roeper. In addition, Jill de Villiers spoke in a session on Bantu, Peter de Villiers in a session on theory of mind, and Barbara Pearson in a session on bilingualism.
Talks and Research by Rajesh Bhatt in Hyderabad
Rajesh Bhatt gave a talk called 'Complex predicates and agreement' at EFLU, Hyderabad, on August 18. He was also at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), in Hyderabad, working to develop tree-banking guidelines for Hindi-Urdu, August 12-19. This work is connected with Rajesh's new NSF grant.
Upcoming Talks by Lyn Frazier
Lyn Frazier will hardly be resting during her sabbatical this semester. On September 12, she gives a colloquium on ellipsis at Rutgers. Shortly after, on September 19, she'll be in Kent, England, to speak at the Workshop on Context and Communication. Then she moves on to Padua for a talk called 'Good Enough parsing' on October 3 and a related talk in Rovereto on October 4. She will spend the rest of October as a visiting scholar in Germany, mostly in Potsdam, where she will give a short course on puzzles at the interfaces.
Tom Roeper in Germany
Tom Roeper was in Germany this summer to give a number of talks. He spoke about frequency in Wuppertal, about implicit arguments in Cologne, and about recursion in Cologne and Frankfurt.