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07:19 (2009-09-16)

September 16, 2009

Alice Harris colloquium

We are very happy to announce that our first colloquium will be given by Alice Harris, who is joining us as Professor this year. The talk will present joint work with Andrei Antonenko and is entitled "Distributed Agreement in Archi and Other Languages". The colloquium will be held in Machmer E-37 at 3:30 pm on Friday, Sept. 18th.

September 16, 2009 8:46 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , colloquia , events

First meeting of Acquisition Lab

The first meeting of the Acquisition Lab will be held Monday September 21 at 5:20 in the Partee Room. Jill deVilliers and Jay Garfield will present "How Could Anyone Ever Learn this Language? Children's Acquisition of Tibetan Evidentials".

September 16, 2009 8:42 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , events

First meeting of the Psycholinguistics group

The first meeting of the psycholinguistics discussion group will be held next Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 7:30. Mara Breen will present on "Prosody Matters: Effects of lexical stress in silent reading". Tom Roeper will host the meeting. E-mail Joe for more information on this meeting or the group.

September 16, 2009 8:14 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , events

Martina Wiltschko visit

Martina Wiltschko, from UBC, will be visiting the department on Thursday Sept. 24. Martina has worked on the syntax of a variety of languages, including Upriver Halkomelem, and Blackfoot. Her recent work includes research on pronouns, the mass/count distinction, tense, number and negation. She will be giving a talk in Kyle's seminar at 2:30 entitled. 'The composition of INFL: An exploration of tense and tenselessness'. There will also be an informal lunch at which she will talk about her experiences with field work and working with indigenous communities. She's happy to meet individually with anyone interested, too. If you'd like to meet with her, email Peggy, suggesting a convenient time. If you'd like to go to lunch, just come to the department at noon.

September 16, 2009 8:12 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , events

Barbara Partee in Norway

Barbara Partee is in Norway for a series of talks over two weeks. Click here for a great poster: BP.pdf
Sept 16 in Kjell Johan Sæbø's Contrastive Semantics seminar at the University of Oslo: "Perspectives on Semantics: How philosophy and syntax have shaped the development of formal semantics, and vice versa"
Sept 17-19, at the conference Russian in Contrast, University of Oslo, organized by Atle Grønn. "Specificational Copular Sentences in Russian and English"
Sept 20-23, University of Tromsø (the northernmost university in the world), hosted by Laura Janda. "Russian Genitives, Non-Referentiality, and the Property-Type Hypothesis" (based on work joint with Borschev, Paducheva, Rakhilina, Testelets, and Yanovich).
Sept 24-27, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, hosted by Lars Hellan, "Compositionality and Coercion: The Dynamics of Adjective Meanings".

Then she'll have to reset what's the farthest north she's been, no longer Fairbanks, Alaska...

September 16, 2009 8:01 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , faculty news

Keir Moulton: Post-doc

Keir Moulton has taken up a post-doctoral fellowship at McGill University. Congratulations Keir!

September 16, 2009 7:53 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , grad-student news

UMAFLAB - first meeting held

This year's first meeting of UMFLAB was held Wednesday Sept. 16. UMAFLAB is the UMass Funny Languages Breakfast. It's a very informal forum for people to talk about field work, curious data, endangered languages, etc. Contact Peggy or Seth for more information!

September 16, 2009 7:45 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , events

Tom Roeper - summer activities

Tom Roeper had a busy summer. In June he presented at a conference on Recursion at ZAS in Berlin (along with Bart Hollebrandse, and Angeliek van Hout). He also presented at a conference on Sentence Types in Frankfurt, on "Vacate Phase" (also presentatons by other former department members Peter Sells, Edwin Williams and Luigi Rizzi). Tom went to South Africa to advise scholars working on the DELV on the test and gave lectures in Stellenborsh, Capetown, and at the University of Lesotho (and managed to do some pony-trekking with Tim Roeper on the side). The DELV, developed in part for AAE, has been translated into Afrikaans, CAAPS, and South African Black English.

September 16, 2009 7:19 PM | | 07:19 (2009-09-16) , faculty news