Line Mikkelsen
UC Berkeley
Verb phrase anaphora in a verb second language
Thursday, October 12 (today!), 8:00 pm, Amy Rose's Place, Northampton
The associated paper: Gøre support in Danish, joint work with a Michael Houser, Ange Strom-Weber, and Maziar Toosarvandani
[Thanks Cherlon and Rajesh!]
Craige Roberts is hosting an all-star workshop on presuppositions accommodation at The OSU, October 13-15, as part of The Pragmatics Initiative. Lyn Frazier is giving an invited lecture on novel definites, and Florian Schwarz has a poster on the morphosemantics of definites. There are in addition a number of distinguished UMass Amherst Linguistics alums involved: Kai von Fintel is giving an invited paper, and Dorit Abusch, Mats Rooth, Greg Carlson, and Nirit Kadmon are commentators.
The Undergrad DARLings meet this coming Tuesday, October 17, at 6:30 pm, in SC 301. Cory Potwin will be helping the DARLings prepare for Peggy Speas' upcoming (October 20) colloquium on evidentials. He will be begin by outlining what the core questions of her grant are and then present more explicitly on a related paper (Evidential paradigms, world variables and person agreement features).
[Thanks David!]
The Acquisition Group met on Tuesday, October 9. Marieke Obdeijin (University of Utrecht) presented 'Discourse anaphora in children and the role of er [there] in Dutch.
[Thanks Youri!]
Shigeto Kawahara has been invited to give a guest lecture at Harvard on October 18. He'll be speaking in Andrew Nevins' class. The talk is tentatively titled 'Similarity in Japanese rap songs: Consonant correspondence and extrametrical vowels'.
PhG met on Tuesday, October 10. Matt Wolf presented some of his work on prenasals.
[Thanks Kathryn P.!]
Adam Werle is having a busy semester. On September 29, he spoke at the University of Victoria: The syntax-phonology interface and clisis in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian and Ditidaht.
He is in addition presenting a paper at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the LSA: Serbo-Croatian second-position clisis by PF movement versus copy selection.
And he'll have another paper at SSILA 2007: Second-position clitics and second-position suffixes in Southern Wakashan.
Joe Pater is taking his sabbatical in Utrecht. He has a bunch of collaborations going there, and a bunch more with people on this continent. Here's his brief report from abroad:
I've got a couple of talks coming up. They are at my webpage. And I'm busy continuing work on collaborative projects with UMass Amherst people: all of you at HaLP, Karen Jesney, Anne-Michelle Tessier (now Assistant Professor at Alberta), and Andries Coetzee (now Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan), and I'm starting new projects with Utrecht people (Rene Kager, Shakuntala Mahala). I'm happy now that my MacBook has been fixed, but sad that my bike was stolen after having it for only two weeks.
Chris Potts was recently in Paris. He bought a packet of Metro tickets, but he mostly walked while there. He doesn't have plans to go back any time soon, because he prefers the coffee at Rao's. So he is selling his Metro tickets to the lowest non-negative bidder.
Contact Sports Monsters Mike Key and Chris Davis if you'd like to be on the soccer interest list.
[Thanks Mike!]
Michael Becker, Shai Cohen, Kathryn Flack, Shigeto Kawahara, Helen Stickney, Cherlon Ussery, Matt Wolf, Adam Werle, ... the list of UMass Amherst linguists giving papers at the 2007 LSA Meeting keeps growing...
