Distinguished University Professor John McCarthy is now at least doubly Distinguished: he has been selected to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008-2009. John will receive the award at the Celebration of Teaching Dinner this Thursday, April 16. Congratulations, John!
[Thanks Emily and Brian!]
SRG convenes this evening (April 16), in the bookstore and cafe on the 3rd floor of Thornes Marketplace in downtown Northampton. The plan is to read
Abusch, Dorit. 1997. Sequence of tense and temporal de re. Linguistics and Philosophy, 20(1):1-50.
[Thanks Aynat!]
UMass Amherst Linguistics is well-represented at CLS 45, which begins today (April 16) and runs through Saturday:
The Linguistics Department's screening of the documentary film The Linguists has been rescheduled for May 14, 2:00 pm, in Thompson 102.
The Acquisition/Evidentials group met on Monday, April 13. Joe Pater and Diana Apoussidou presented 'Computational simulation of gradual learning'.
[Thanks Tom!]
Eulàlia Bonet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) spoke in Rajesh Bhatt's Phi-Features Seminar (Ling 810) on April 14. The title of her talk was 'The relevance of repair strategies in understanding the Person-Case constraint'.
[Thanks Rajesh!]
