Adam Albright Colloquium
Adam Albright
MIT
An obligatorily gradient grammatical effect?
Friday, September 26, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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06:24 (2008-09-25)
September 25, 2008
October 2 Freeman Lecture: Larry Solan
UMass Amherst Linguists at NELS 39
A bunch of UMass Amherst linguists are off to NELS 39 to present their work. The full program.
- Meg Grant, A psycholinguistic investigation of MaxElide in variable-binding contexts
- Karen Jesney, Positional faithfulness, non-locality, and the Harmonic Serialism solution
- Michael Key, The relation between phonetic and phonological encoding in perception: Interactive or autonomous?
- Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menéndez-Benito, and Florian Schwarz, Maximize presupposition and two types of definite competitors
And watch for our alums:
- Anne-Michelle Tessier (2007 PhD, now Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta)
- Junko Shimoyama (2001 PhD, now Assistant Professor at McGill)
- Gillian Gallagher (2005 BA, now in the grad program at MIT)
- Kyle Rawlins (2003 BA, now Visiting Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins)
In addition, Roger Schwarzschild (1994 PhD, now Professor at Rutgers) is an invited speaker.
Semantics Reading Group Today
SRG will hold its first meeting of the semester this week today (September 25). The group will discuss Irene Heim's 1992 paper 'Presupposition projection and the semantics of attitude verbs' (Journal of Semantics 9(3): 183-221).
Space and time: Aynat's place in Northampton, at the earlier time of 7:00 pm.
There might be a classic drink to accompany reading of Heim's classic paper
[Thanks Aynat!]
Conor Quinn in the Speas-Woolford Seminar
Conor Quinn, who was a postdoc at MIT until recently and has done a lot of work on Penobscot, will be speaking in Peggy and Ellen's seminar on October 1 (Wednesday, 2:30-5:15 pm, Hasbrouck 106). You can check out his 2006 Harvard dissertation Referential Access Dependancy in Penobscot, along with a bunch of other work, at his website.
[Thanks Peggy and Ellen!]
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Aquisition Lab met on Monday, September 22. Barbara Pearson gave a presentation titled 'Relating quantifier acquisition and math: a proposal'.
[Thanks Tom!]
Bayliss Fiddiman Raising Funds for Breast Cancer Research
Bayliss Fiddiman, one of the department's new work study students, is heading up two teams that are walking to raise money for breast cancer research. The walk is on October 26. Both teams are UMass Amherst organizations:
Thanks for doing this, Bayliss!