Adam Werle Dissertation Defense
Word, Phrase, and Clitic Prosody in Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian
Monday, November 17, 2008, 4:00 pm. Machmer W-26
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November 13, 2008
More Distinguished Teaching Award Nominations
Last week, we reported on Martin Walkow's Distinguished Teaching Award nomination. We have a few more nominations to report. Here's the full list of nominees:
- John McCarthy
- Tom Roeper
- Cherlon Ussery
- Martin Wakow
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition Lab met on Monday, November 10. Chloe Gu led a disussion called 'An experimental plan for exploring the "seat of knowledge" perspective in acquisition'.
[Thanks Tom!]
First Issue of the Journal of South Asian Linguistics
The inaugural issue of the Journal of South Asian Linguistics has appeared. The journal is coedited by Rajesh Bhatt and Miriam Butt. Here's the table of contents for the issue:
- Eystein Dahl . Performative Sentences and the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface in Vedic
- Alice Davison. A Case Restriction on Control: Implications for Movement
- Umesh Patil, Gerrit Kentner, Anja Gollrad, Frank Kügler, Caroline Fery, Shravan Vasisth. Focus, Word Order and Intonation in Hindi
Semantics Reading Group
SRG meets tomorrow (November 14), at 3:00 pm, in the department lounge. (Unusual date, time, and place!) The plan is still as reported last week. In addition, the group will gather for dinner at Barbara Partee's house afterwords. That plan:
- Lentil soup, homemade breads, and good cheeses
- Peeling and slicing of apples (to make fresh apple crisp from Barbara's mother's recipe)
- Drinks and snacks welcome, as usual
[Thanks Aynat and Barbara!]
Phonology Reading Group
PhG met on Tuesday, November 11. The group prepared for Brett Hyde's upcoming visit by reading his latest ROA upload, Alignment continued: Distance-sensitivity, order-sensitivity, and the midpoint pathology.
[Thanks Wendell and Emily!]
Volodja Borschev in the Russian Science News
Volodja Borschev in action at a recent conference in Moscow!
Barbara Partee reports:
The conference was in honor of Yulij Shreider, a mathematician and theoretical scientist who was the head of Volodja's department at VINITI (part of the Russian Academy of Sciences) for many years, and his sometimes co-author, who died quite a few years ago – various mathematicians and philosophers discussed Shreider's ideas and what influence they had on later work.
As the article notes, Volodja discussed both Shreider's ideas about scientific infrastructure and their relevance to the internet age, and Shreider's innovative topological approach to formal grammar description. Shreider's "neighborhood models" of language are directly relevant to model-theoretic syntax, as Volodja and I discussed with Geoff Pullum and Chris Potts at Santa Cruz in May 2002, which was the first time we met Chris!
[Thanks Barbara!]
Budapest Summer School on Conditionals
The CEU Summer University announces the course Conditionals: Philosophical and Linguistic Issues.
