Semantics Reading Group will hold its first meeting of the semester on Thursday, February 12. The plan is to discuss Karttunen 1974:
Lauri Karttunen. 1974. Presupposition and linguistic context. Theoretical Linguistics 1: 181-194. Also in Pragmatics: A Reader, Steven Davis (ed.), pp. 406-415, Oxford University Press, 1991.
On Tuesday, February 3, John McCarthy, Wendell Kimper, and Kathryn Pruitt gave a two-hour presentation in the Center for Teaching's series called Teaching Large Classes. They described their work on the TA handbook for Ling 101. Matt Ouellett, the CFT's director, invited Wendell and Kathryn to do an encore in the Fall at the CFT's University-wide TA orientation.
Diana Apoussidou, Karen Jesney, and Joe Pater are presenting their joint talk 'Learning underlying representations with Positive M-Phon constraints' at Brown this Friday (Feb 6). Here's the abstract and locational information.
The Harvard colloq schedule is packed with UMass Amherst linguists this semester:
[Thanks Joe!]
