Chris Barker will be visiting the SRG today (October 16), starting at 8:00 pm, at Aynat's house. The official reading is Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan's new paper in Semantics & Pragmatics: Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding. The discussion might be quite free-form, though, moving from towers to donkeys to bishops to continuations. This will be good prep for tomorrow's colloq. All are welcome!
[Thanks Aynat!]
Chris Barker
NYU
Quantificational binding does not require c-command
Friday, October 17, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
Party at 7:00 pm at the Potts house
Aviya Hacohen
Tel Aviv
On compositional telicity in Adult and Child Hebrew
Monday, October 20, 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room
[Thanks Tom!]
On Tuesday, October 21, at 10:00 am, in the Partee Room, Jason Narad will be speaking with the computational learning group about his work developing Bayesian models of morphology induction that make use of phonological rules. Jason received an M.S. from Edinburgh before joining the UMass Amherst Computer Science PhD program. Jason is also a member of the UMass Amherst Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval and the UMass Amherst Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory.
[Thanks Joe!]
The topic of the Third-Year Seminar next week is Being on the Job Market. The meetings are Tuesday and Thursday (Oct 21 and 23), 4:00-5:15 pm, in the Partee Room.
John McCarthy will visit on Thursday, October 23. The title of his presentation is 'The Secret To A Successful Career'.
Seth Cable has made a lot of new work available:
In addition, Seth is giving colloquia at Cornell (October 30) and Maryland (November 21), and he is giving a talk at the LSA meeting in January, as part of an LSA/SSILA panel Inflectional Contrasts in the Languages of the Northwest Coast.
Barbara Partee was at Cornell two weeks ago, presenting a colloquium talk on September 25 that had four other (absent) co-authors – Vladimir Borschev, Elena Paducheva, Yakov Testelets, and Igor Yanovich: "Russian Genitives, Non-Referentiality, and the Property-Type Hypothesis". This was a version of their FASL 16 paper, which they plan to revise into a journal article.
Barbara spent time with Mats Rooth and Dorit Abusch (one of only two couples of whom both were her Ph.D. students – see the Partee PhD Genealogy), Sally McConnell-Ginet, Wayles Browne, saw Molly Diesing, and met with students; took a walk at the Cornell Ornithology center (there were indeed lots of birds there, but they cheat – they have lots of bird feeders); and it's a beautiful drive between Amherst and Ithaca at this time of year.
Barbara is now Berlin, as an invited discussant at the second International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM2) at ZAS, October 16-18, organized by Manfred Krifka and his colleagues.
Tom Roeper is a Distinguished Guest Speaker in the California State University, Northridge, Linguistics/TESL Program. His talk is today (October 16). It is titled 'From input to mind: How acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application'. Tom is also giving a talk at UCLA next week: 'Nodes, labels, and features and the role of recursion in acquisition'.
The 2009 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad will be held on February 4, 2009 (open round) and March 11, 2009 (closed round).
Check out the website for lots more information about how to get involved.
[Thanks Barbara!]
