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07:08 (2009-03-12)
March 12, 2009
Syntax/Semantics Group: Magda Oiry
The S-groups meet jointly today (March 12), 4:30 pm, in the department lounge. The meeting features a talk by Magda Oiry entitled 'A true case of optionality: Wh-in-situ patterns like long movement in French.' The talk promises to be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, and acquisitionists.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Collaborative Teaching Graph
The WHISC series of collaboration graphs continues this week with documentation of faculty coteaching. (We couldn't figure out how to document this graphically, but it is worth noting that Ling 101 and the large-lecture Ling 201 are always collaborative efforts involving faculty and graduate students, as are many of the undergraduate classes with TAs.)
Scholarship to August Siena Cohn Thomas
A huge congratulations to August Siena Cohn Thomas (Linguistics BA). She has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship for participation in a Turkish intensive summer language institute, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. August writes, "Two months of intensive Turkish in Turkey this summer – fully funded by the State Dept. I'm incredibly excited!"
August is no stranger to WHISC; readers might remember our item on her being named a Davidson Fellow in Literature last year.
[Thanks Rajesh!]
Kratzer in Osnabrück
Tanja Heizmann-Dold sent in this picture from Angelika's recent plenary address at the DGfS:
And here's a link to the slidehow prominently displayed in this shot.
[Thanks Tanja!]
Heizmann-Dold in Osnabrück
Tanja Heizmann-Dold participated in the special interest group Production-comprehension asymmetries in child language at the recent DGfS meeting. She presented the core findings from her dissertation in a talk titled 'Exhaustivity in questions and clefts and the quantifier connection'.
Evidentials/Acquisition Group Meeting
The Evidentials/Acquisition Group met on March 9. Meg Grant presented experimental work on events and propositions.
[Thanks Tom!]
Bhatt in Texas
Rajesh Bhatt visited the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, late last month. He gave a talk titled 'Ergativity in Two Indo-Aryan Languages'. While there, he worked on a paper on the interaction of negation and verb movement in Kashmiri with Sadaf Munshi, who is an assistant professor at UNT.
Treebanking in Hyderabad
Rajesh Bhatt was in Hyderabad earlier this year for a Hindi-Urdu treebanking workshop at IIIT. You can check out the project wiki for news, technical documents, and some data.
Here's an action shot:
From left to right: Rajesh, Owen Rambow (Columbia), Dipti Misra Sharma (IIIT), Martha Palmer (Colorado), Rajiv Sangal (IIIT), Fei Xia (Washington), Rafiya Begum (IIIT), Miriam Butt (Konstanz), Samar Hussain (IIIT), Aravind Joshi (Penn)
Call: ECO5 Accepting Abstracts
The University of Maryland is hosting the EC05 Workshop on Saturday, April 4. EC05 is a student workshop in syntax. More to come on the UMass Amherst presenters.
[Thanks Amy Rose!]
Call: FACQs: Frequently Asked Concealed Questions
Magdalena Schwager and our own Ilaria Frana (now on a post-doc in Göttingen) are organizing a workshop titled FACQs: Frequently Asked Concealed Questions. The invited speakers are Maria Aloni, Irene Heim, Caroline Heycock, Lance Nathan, Orin Percus, Maribel Romero, and Ede Zimmermann. The deadline for abstract submission is April 5.
[Thanks Ilaria!]