Andrew Nevins colloquium on Friday
More UMass people going to NELS 40
Rajesh Bhatt and
Radek Simik are presenting together at MIT in the Semantics Workshop on Pronouns at
NELS 40. The title of their talk is "Variable Binding meets the Person Case Constraint".
Former South College visitor Radek Simik has also a paper "Quantificational properties of ne-Wh items in Russian"
in the main session with Natasha Kondrashova.
Former student
Cherlon Ussery (2009 UMass Amherst PhD now at Carleton College) is presenting a paper entitled "Variability in Icelandic agreement: An interaction of DP licensing and Multiple Agree".
Former student
Michael Becker (2008 UMass Amherst PhD now at Harvard) is presenting "Initial syllable faithfulness as the best model of word-size effects in alternations" in collaboration with
Andrew Nevins.
Rajesh Bhatt and Radek Simik's world tour
Rajesh Bhatt is an invited speaker at
MOSS is Moscow. He is speaking there on Oct. 10, presenting joint work with
Radek Simik on the interaction of variable binding and the person case constraint.
Radek will also be presenting their work on this topic at
IATL 25 in Israel on October 13.
[Thanks Rajesh!]
Mahasen Abu-Mansour appointed by King Abdullah
John McCarthy reports:
Mahasen Abu-Mansour, a former visiting scholar at UMass in the 1990s that teaches linguistics at Umm Al-Qura University, has been appointed by King Abdullah to the Majlis Al-Shura, which is the legislature of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is one of 12 women in this 200-seat consultative body.
Floris Roelofsen's current work
Floris Roelofsen is on his way to a
conference in Chongqing, China. The paper he is presenting can be found
here.
The
paper he discussed in Semantics Reading Group last Friday was presented by his co-author Jeroen Groenendijk at a
workshop in Michigan this weekend.
He also just finished a
paper for the proceedings of SALT, together with Jeroen Groenendijk and Ivano Ciardelli. He says, "The proposal we make is quite unconventional and I would love to hear people's feedback."
Susan Goldin-Meadow talk on Thursday at Smith
Jill de Villiers informs us that:
Susan Goldin-Meadow (1971 PhD. Smith College)
will give a talk:
"How Our Hands Help Us Think"
on Thursday, October 8, from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
in Seelye 201 at Smith College.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please come!
[Thanks Jill!]
