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06:26 (2008-10-09)

October 9, 2008

Barbara Pearson at the University Club October 15

Barbara Pearson is reading from her new book Raising a Bilingual Child at the University Club, October 15, 7:00-9:00 pm. She'll also be signing books! Here's a poster.

Phonology Group

PhG met on Wednesday, October 8. John Kingston facilitated the discussion.

[Thanks Wendell!]

Syntax Reading Group

Syntax Reading Group met on Tuesday, October 7. Annahita Farudi presented her joint work with Maziar Toosarvandani on complex predicates and ergativity in Zoroastrian Dari. Here's an abstract.

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Kimper in McCarthy-Pater Grant Group

Wendell Kimper presented some of his work on local optionality, as it relates to harmony in Vata, at the October 8 meeting of the McCarthy-Pater grant group.

Tentative Date for UMMM: November 22

The date for this year's UMMM has been tentatively set for November 22. Contact John Kingston if you'd like more details. We'll have a fuller report closer to the workshop.

[Thanks John!]

NSF Symposium: Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use

An NSF Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use will take place at NYU, November 14-15. Registration is free. The program is chock-a-block with leading lights in NLP research, from academia and industry.

[Thanks Aynat!]

Google Mail Goggles

A Google utility that helps prevent you from sending messages you really ought not to be sending.

[Thanks Ji-yung!]