Maribel Romero Colloquium
Maribel Romero
University of Pennsylvania
Some syllogisms with individual concepts
Friday, October 6, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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04:24 (2006-10-05)
October 5, 2006
SNEWS Report
Nine UMass Amherst linguists made their way to Yale on Saturday for SNEWS, the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics. Shai Cohen, Chris Davis, and Amy Rose Deal gave stellar talks, and together they illustrated the diversity of the semantics and pragmatics being done around here.
SNEWS will probably be hosted by MIT next year.
WHASC Revamped
WHASC is What's Happening at Santa Cruz. It is WHISC's direct inspiration. (In fact, we, ahh, sort of stole the name.) It is put together by Connie Creel.
We're delighted to see that it has been revamped as ful-fledged Web publication. Check it out!
UMass Amherst Linguists at NELS 37
p>NELS 37 is at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 13-15. There are lots of South College people involved.Lisa Selkirk is an invited speaker.
Two current grads are giving talks: Keir Moulton and Youri Zabbal.
One current BA student (!) is giving a talk: Lisa Shiozaki.
And a number of alums are on the program as well: Elliott Moreton (2002 PhD, now Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel-Hill), Bernhard Schwarz (2000 PhD, now Assistant Professor at McGill), and Paul Portner (1992 PhD, now Associate Professor at Georgetown).
UMass Amherst LSA Acceptances
The LSA has made it decisions for the 2007 Annual Meeting, which is being held in Anaheim, California, January 4-7. We're starting to get word of acceptances. So far: Michael Becker, Shai Cohen, Kathryn Flack, Shigeto Kawahara, and Matt Wolf. There are probably more. We'll have a fuller report in December.
Sizzling Hot Roumi Pics!!!
The paparazzi converge on Roumi Pancheva, hot young USC Associate Professor of Linguistics.
[Thanks Rajesh!]
Undergrad Linguistics Club
The Undergrad DARLings meet this coming Tuesday, 6:30 pm, in the Partee Room.
Lily Wood, who just returned from a year abroad in Russia, will be presenting on some interesting facts from Russian, focusing mainly on Negative Concord. The discussion will focus primarily on syntax, but semantic questions are fair game too (though she'll be leaving the genitive of negation to Barbara and Volodja).
[Thanks David!]
Evidentials Grant Group Meeting
The Evidentials Grant Group met on Tuesday, October 3. Leah Bateman presented some of the work she did over the summer: 'Tibetan evidentials and their interaction with TAM markers'.
[Thanks Youri!]
Partee--Borschev Grant Group Meeting
The Partee-Borschev Grant Group met yesterday (October 4). Anna Verbuk gave a talk titled 'The acquisition of the Russian or', and Barbara Partee presented 'Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics'.
[Thanks Florian!]
Phonology Group
PhG met on Tuesday, October 3. Lisa Shiozaki gave a practice talk for her upcoming NELS 37 presentation.
[Thanks Kathryn!]
Semantics Reading Group
SRG meets tomorrow (October 5) at Jan and Aynat's Northampton pad. The meeting with consist of two practice talks plus beer, wine, and discussion.
Tom Roeper in Montreal
Tom Roeper was recently in Montreal, where he gave a talk at UQAM on Friday, September 28, on configurational iterativity. He writes, "The work brought together collaborations with Uri Strauss, Markus Bader, Barbara Schmiedtova and arguments from syntax, parsing, semantics, and acquisition. It was great to see a number of former UMass Amherst folk, including Rose-Marie Déchaine, Meredith Landman, Rejan Carnac-Marquis, Juan Uriagereka, and Andreas Gualmini there."