Gillian Ramchand Colloquium
Gillian Ramchand
University of Tromsø*
Lexical Items in Complex Predication
*And current Syntax Guru
Friday, April 3, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-24
Reception to follow in the department lounge. Party after that at Kyle's.
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07:10 (2009-04-02)
April 2, 2009
Syntax/Semantics Reading Group: Studying the Guru
This week's S reading group will be devoted to Gillian Ramchand's recent book Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First-Phase Syntax. Gillian is the syntax guru in residence and also the colloq presenter this Friday.
The group will start with chapter 3 (and mention chapter 1 and chapter 2 as recommended background), in what should be the first of two reading groups meetings devoted to the book.
The meeting begins at 8:00 pm at Misato and Maria's place. Please bring snacks and other refreshments.
[Thanks Aynat!]
Meg Grant: Psych Brown Bag Talk
Meg Grant is giving a Cognitive Brownbag talk over in Psychology on Wednesday, April 9, at 12:00 pm, in 521B Tobin.
Daniele Panizza on ERP Violations
Daniele Panizza
Mai in the wrong place: An ERP study of violations associated with NPIs in Italian
Tuesday, April 7, 4:30 pm, South College 301 (The Partee Room)
Harris and Potts at OSU
Jesse Harris and Chris Potts are presenting their paper Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives at the OSU Workshop on Projective Meanings, just before SALT 19 (April 2-3), at OSU. The workshop is co-organized by Craige Roberts (1987 UMass Amherst PhD).
Peggy Speas at Purdue
Peggy Speas is giving a keynote address at the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas at Purdue University , April 3-5. The conference is organized by alum Elena Benedicto (1998 UMass Amherst PhD).
New Languages Group
From Seth:
The UMass (Funny) Languages (Breakfast) Group will have its first full meeting on Tuesday, April 14, at 9:30-10:30 am, in the Partee room.
At this meeting, we will have presentations by:
- Peggy Speas: On quantifiers in Navajo
- Anisa Schardl: On voicing contrasts in Burmese
[Thanks Seth!]
Acquisition Lab
The Acquisition/Evidentials Group met on March 30. Maxi Limbach (University of Cologne) presented the results of her ongoing experiments in a talk titled 'Recursive Possessives in L1 and L2'.
[Thanks Tom!]
Department Picnic September 12
The annual department picnic is now scheduled, at least tentatively, for September 12. As usual, it will be at Barbara and Volodja's. Mark your calendars!
[Thanks Barbara!]
Brown Mini-Courses in Language and Linguistics
The Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences has announced its first annual series of Brown Minicourses in Language and Linguistics, May 18-22, 2009. There are two courses, each meeting for two hours per day for each of the five days:
- 10:00-12:00: Sonja Kotz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences): Neural correlates of syntax: Facts (?) and crossroads
- 2:00-4:00: Bruce Hayes (UCLA): Embedding grammar in a quantitative framework: Some case studies from phonology and metrics
Attendance is free and open to the public.
[Thanks Polly Jacobson!]
ESSLLI Summer School
The 21st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information will be held in Bordeaux, France (pretty swish!), July 20-31. ESSLI is a fanastic summer school — relatively affordable, with top-notch classes in linguistics and also lots of opportunities to explore the neighboring fields of logic and theoretical computer science.
[Thanks Angelika!]