Uri Strauss is off to Law School
From Uri:
i'm leaving umass (masters degree in hand) and headed to the law school. i was offered a generous scholarship to go to case western reserve university in cleveland, ohio, which made my decision to go there pretty easy. i will miss all my friends, professors and colleagues in the linguistics department and in the happy valley. and i will miss being able to interact with linguists: case has no department, no program, and apparently just one undergraduate course with "linguistics" in the title. i will keep in touch with the department through WHISC, and will try to visit when possible.
Amy Rose Deal has a new Snippet
Amy Rose Deal's squib 'Does English have a genitive case?' has just been published in Snippets. She writes that the highlights include "-analysis of your all's" and "citations from the H section". We'll add that she has occasion to cite Scott McClellan. Here's the direct link so that you can find out what that means.
Valentine Hacquard's Successful Thesis Defense
On June 8, Valentine Hacquard succcessfully defended her MIT thesis Aspects of Modality. Valentine is our next Barbara Partee Visiting Professor in Semantics.
[Thanks Angelika!]
Chris Potts in Japan
Chris Potts gave talks in Sendai and an LENLS 2006 earlier this month. He liked the SALT picture so much that he rallied the LENLS participants for another:
Find UMass Amherst grad Mana Kobuchi-Philip!
Special Acquisition Talk
On May 26, Joseph Galasso (California State University, Northridge) gave a special invited lecture to the acqusition lab: 'The nature of the input: Tracing the INFL affix through the Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development
Some Points on Borer and Rohrbacher'.
Phonology Group Going Strong All Summer Long
The Phonology Group has continued to meet throughout these dog days of summer:
On June 15, they discussed Alan Prince's Entailed ranking arguments. John McCarthy acted as facilitator.
On June 22, John Kingston presented his paper 'Contrast and
assimilation in the perception of successive segments', in preparation for LABPHON 10.
Here's how things look for the remainder of the summer:
The rest of August is open at present.
Evidentials Grant Group Meeting
The Evidentials Grant Group met on June 6.
SNEWS on October 7
SNEWS (the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics) will take place at Yale next fall --- probably on Saturday, October 7.
My Cat Deleted It
An interesting variant on "my dog ate it" (from Barbara, who writes "This is from a serious undergraduate,
so I know she must be telling the truth!"):
sorry, could you please send me the article again? My cat just deleted it (how smart). My article is 'aspectual selection and negation in mandarin chinese' by Jo Wang Lin.
Joseph Aoun to be President of Northeastern
Joseph Aoun, Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at USC, has been named President of Northeastern University.
[Thanks John!]
