PhG meets next Wednesday, September 24, at Karen Jesney's house. In anticipation of Adam Albright's colloq that Friday, Karen Jesney will lead a discussion of Albright et al.'s Modeling doubly marked lags with a split additive model, which Adam has described as short and light. Adam also suggests looking at Joe Pater's Optimization and linguistic typology.
[Thanks Wendell!]
Syntax Reading Group holds its first meeting of the semester today (September 18), starting at 7:00 pm, at Chris, Karen, and Annahita's Northampton pad. The plan is to read a squib left over from a previous semester's wish-list: Daniel Büring's Bound to bind (2005, Linguistic Inquiry 36.2).
A report on the recent S-group meeting: The working conclusion was that there will continue to be two separate reading groups (semantics and syntax), but that they will be organized in closer conjunction, in order to ensure, for example, that there is always a time set aside before a syntax or semantics colloq to do appropriate background reading, no matter what the subject of the colloq is.
[Thanks Annahita!]
GALANA 3 (Generative Approaches to Langauge Acquisition North America 3) was held at UConn, September 4-6. Miren Hodgson and Anna Perez, who are from UMass Amherst Spanish and did lingusitics dissertations, gave papers. In addition, faculty, former visitors, and students gave a series of posters: Angeliek van Hout and Jill deVilliers; Emily Sowalsky, Valentine Hacquard and Tom Roeper; Anna Verbuk; and Liane Jeschull and Tom Roeper.
Tom Roeper has recently returned from Leiden, where he and Bart Hollebrandse gave a paper called 'Indirect recursion'.
The Commons Group invites you to the Amherst Bike Fair, Saturday, September 20, Amherst Town Commons, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Find out about the Commons Group's ongoing efforts to educate the public about bike safety, learn about their speed-limit petition, and check out area bike maps. In addition, there will be unicycle and hybrid bike demonstrations.
[Thanks Tom!]
