Pauline Jacobson Colloquium
Pauline Jacobson
Brown University
Friday, April 24, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-23
Party afterwords at Chris and Kathryn's place in Amherst
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07:13 (2009-04-23)
April 23, 2009
S Group Meeting Tonight
The syntax and semantics groups join forces again this week to prep (loosely speaking) for Polly Jacobson's colloquium this Friday. The interdisciplinary group will gather at Aynat's place in Northampton at 8:00 pm. Contributions intellectual and spirituous are welcome!
[Thanks Annahita!]
Anisa Schardl in Voces Feminae Concert
Anisa Schardl is in Voces Feminae, the Five College Early Music women's vocal ensemble. They are performing a program of English and Italian music next weekend. The performance will be on Saturday, May 2, at 4:00 pm, in Sweeney Concert Hall, in Sage Hall at Smith. It's free! Anisa, you rock!
SNEWS This Saturday
SNEWS (The Southern New England Workshop in Semantics) takes place this Saturday, April 25, here at UMass Amherst, starting at 10:00 am.
Fun fact: the name "SNEWS" was coined here at UMass Amherst six years ago by Polly Jacobson, during a coffee break at what we now call SNEWS.
The website is spiffy. A direct link to the program. The organizing crew will ensure that coffee flows all day, and a light lunch will be provided.
[Thanks Jesse!]
UMAFLAB Meeting
The next meeting of UMAFLAB (the UMass Funny Languages Breakfast) will be next Tuesday (4/28) at 9:30 in the Partee Room. The following folks will be leading the meeting:
- Suzi Lima: On Numeral Quantification in Juruna (practice talk for SULA)
- Anisa Shardl: On Voicing Contrasts in Burmese
- Wendell Kimper: Fast Speech in Bengali Prosody
[Thanks Seth!]
Frazier in York
Lyn Frazier is speaking this week at the Explaining Syntax Workshop in York. The title of her talk is 'Explaining syntax: The role of acceptable ungrammaticality'.
Hollebrandse and Roeper at GLOW
Bart Hollebrandse and Tom Roeper presented a paper at GLOW 32. The title was 'Indirect recursion as a restriction on the syntax-semantics interface'.
Partee in Moscow
Barbara Partee was an invited speaker at the 4th Annual Moscow Students' Linguistics Conference. The title of her talk was 'Quantifying over contexts: Semantics or pragmatics or both?'. Barbara plans soon to post an updated handout reflecting ongoing conversation with Paul Elbourne. When she does, we'll link to it from here.
Davis and Potts at Brown
Chrises Davis and Potts visited Brown yesterday, to lecture in Polly Jacobson's undergraduate seminar on questions and answers. They presented a corpus they've collected, and then the group engaged in some exploratory data analysis, seeking to identify pragmatic strategies for responding to questions and the implicatures those strategies give rise to.
The 7th Annual NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture
The 7th Annual NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 6-24. Barbara Partee and Chris Potts have both taught at the Institute in past years. They are happy to answer questions about it.
The NYI is a wonderful way to see St. Petersburg and to take first-rate courses in cognitive science. It's also one of the most affordable summer schools in our field.