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06:35 (2008-12-18)
December 18, 2008
Report on the Angelika Fest
Lisa Selkirk sent in this report on the birthday festivities that Angelika's students organized for her on December 6.
Angelika's birthday celebration, organized by Roger Schwarzschild and Kai von Fintel, with a dinner at a fine Italian restaurant in Cambridge on Friday, December 5, and a workshop held at MIT on December 6, was a wonderful event.
The dinner was attended by almost all of Angelika's former and current students, as well as a few significant others. Some of the former students travelled long distances to be there — Jo-Wang Lin flew in from Taiwan, Kiyomi Kusumoto from Japan, Maribel Romero from Konstanz, Ilaria Frana and Paula Menendez-Benito from Göttingen.
There was a Canadian contingent: Ana Arregui from Ottawa, Junko Shimoyama and Bernhard Schwarz (with toddler Makoto) from McGill. Two came in from Michigan — Marcin Morzycki, Jan Anderssen. Roger was there from Rutgers and Satoshi Tomioka from Delaware.
The Amherst contingent included Shai Cohen, Florian Schwarz, Amy Rose Deal, Aynat Rubinstein and Andrew McKenzie.
In the Eastern Mass. contingent there was Kai, and Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Youri Zabbal from the other side of the river.
It was amazing to see everyone together for this celebration, odd to realize that they didn't all know each other before this. The photos which I took at the dinner are here. The festive atmosphere — darkened room with low lights, lights from the skyline across the river outside the windows — presented a technical challenge for me and the camera, but I hope that the human dimension — including moments when endearing words were spoken — shines through.
On Saturday, the papers at the workshop held at MIT were given by Angelika's current and former students. Other "locals" attended, and the pictures link has photos of some familiar faces there, including Gennaro Chierchia, now at Harvard, and Irene Heim (MIT).
—Lisa Selkirk
Deal and McKenzie: NSF Dissertation Grant Projects
NSF dissertation grant proposals by Amy Rose Deal and Andrew McKenzie have been recommended for funding. Amy Rose's project is for work on Nez Perce, and Andrew's project is for work on Kiowa. Angelika Kratzer and Seth Cable are the respective advisors.
Congratulations, Amy Rose and Andrew!
UMass Amherst Linguists at the LSA
There are lots of UMass Amherst linguists at the upcoming LSA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, January 8-11, 2009).
Angelika Kratzer is giving one of the three plenary addresses. Her title is 'Straddling the border between linguistics and philosophy'. The talk is on Saturday, January 10, 12:45-1:45 pm.
In addition, we culled the following lists from the preliminary program (please let us know if we missed any current or former South College faculty, visitors, alums, etc.!):
Current South College Inhabitants
Seth Cable: Use of subordinate clauses as matrix utterances in the Pacific Northwest
Amy Rose Deal: Future and past in Nez Perce modals
Lisa Green: Resultative aspect and past tense in child African American English
Andrew McKenzie: Kiowa switch-reference and subject positions
Christopher Potts and Florian Schwarz: Exclamatives and heightened emotion: Extracting pragmatic generalizations from large corpora
Aynat Rubinstein: Between modals and verbs: The dual role of must/need
Nathan Sanders (Williams) and Jaye Padgett: Exploring the role of production in predicting vowel inventories
Cherlon Ussery: Case at syntax, agreement at PF: Evidence from Icelandic
South College Alums
Michael Becker (Reed) and Lena Fainleib (Tel Aviv): Surface-based generalizations over lexical exceptions
Andries Coetzee (U Michigan) and Rigardt Pretorius (North-West University, South Africa): Tswana voiced plosives: Observing change-in-progress
Lisa Matthewson (UBC): Tense and modality in the Pacific Northwest
Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins): A semantics for extreme ignorance questions
Helen Stickney: Inter-speaker variation in the syntax of the partitive
Kristen Syrett (Rutgers), Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers): The representation and processing of measure phrases in four-year-olds
Matthew Wolf (Georgetown): Local ordering in phonology/morphology interleaving: Evidence for OT-CC
Links
My first experience with Microsoft Speech
David Foster Wallace's Time in the Pioneer Valley
Organizing your PDF Library [Thanks Barbara!]
Word for Linguists: Macros and Tips from Susanna Cumming [Thanks Barbara!]