Semantics reading group Friday
Semantics reading group will meet this Friday at 4PM in the Lounge in South College.
Floris Roelofsen will give an introduction to
Inquisitive Semantics based on the paper Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics.
The meeting will double as an organizational meeting for planning the activities of the reading group this semester.
[Thanks Martin!]
Acquisition Group meeting Monday
Barbara Pearson will be presenting in the Acquisition Group: "Quantifier Biases by Language Background: Results from an on-line questionnaire" on Monday, October 5 at 5.15 in the Partee room.
Everyone Welcome!
Günther Grewendorf's special syntax lecture
Günther Grewendorf (University of Frankfurt) will speak on "Verb Second" on Thursday, October 8th at 4:00 PM
in the Partee Room.
Everyone Welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
Grad students going to LSA
A number of our graduate students are heading to this year's meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America in Baltimore, MD January 7-10, including three (!) first-years:
Leah Bateman: "Syntax of nominalizations in Tibetan"
Maria Biezma:"Inverted antecedents and covert modality in Spanish"
Emily Elfner: "Stress-epenthesis interactions in Harmonic Serialism"
Minta Elsman: "The morphosyntax of the American English perfect." (with
Stanley Dubinsky, South Carolina)
Annahita Farudi: "Dividing deontics in Farsi: morphosyntactic evidence for the split"
Karen Jesney and Robert Staubs: "Learning Hidden Structure with a Log-Linear Model of Grammar" (with
Ramgopal Mettu, UMass Electrical Engineering,
Joe Pater and
David Smith, UMass Computer Science)
Claire Moore-Cantwell: "Gerard Manley Hopkins's Sprung Rhythm: Corpus study and stochastic grammar" (with
Bruce Hayes, UCLA)
Aynat Rubinstein: "Gradations of force: rethinking modal quantificational components"
Martin Walkow: "A Unified Analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-Effects in Barceloni Catalan"
Congrats all!
Grad students on their way to NELS 40
A group of Grad students had abstracts accepted to
NELS 40 in Boston, November 13-15:
Maria Biezma: "Inverted Antecedents in Hidden Conditionals".
Chloe Gu: "Maximalization and the definite reading in Mandarin wh-conditionals"
Emily Elfner: "Recursivity and Binarity in Prosodic Phrasing: Evidence from Connemara Irish"
Martin Walkow: "A Unified Analysis of the Person Case Constraint and 3-3-Effects in Barceloni Catalan"
Bravo all!
Lyn Frazier: "Inaudible Syntax" in San Francisco
Lyn Frazier gave a joint talk with
Jason Merchant on "Inaudible syntax"
at the Leverhulme meeting on context and communication, San Francisco,
September 19.
UMass in Phonology
The current volume of
Phonology is full of contributions from current and former South College residents. The May issue "Phonological Models and Experimental Data" was guest edited by
Andries Coetzee (PhD 2004, now Michigan) and
Joe Pater along with
René Kager, and includes an article by Coetzee and a book review by Pater. The August issue includes articles by both
Jill Beckman (PhD 1998; now Iowa) and
Kathryn Flack (PhD 2007; now Stanford).
