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04:29 (2006-11-09)
November 9, 2006
Peggy Speas Colloquium
Peggy Speas
UMass Amherst
Evidentials, embedding and the acquisition of theory of mind
Friday, November 10, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
NSF Grant to Christopher Potts
Christopher Potts has been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant: Expressive content and the semantics of contexts. Angelika Kratzer and Peggy Speas are consultants on the grant.
New GLSA Publications
GLSA is pleased to annouce two new volumes on amazon.com! Buy them for all your friends!
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Tanja Heizmann (ed.) |
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Ben Gelbart |
Philosophy Colloquium: David Christensen
David Christensen
University of Vermont
Does Murphy's Law apply in Epistemology? Self-doubt and rational ideals
Friday, November 10, 2006, 3:30 pm, Bartlett 206
[Thanks Barbara!]
Undergrad Linguistics Club
The DARLings meet next on Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 pm, in 301 South College (the Partee Room). Cory Potwin will be presenting on M.A.K. Halliday's Systemic-Functional approach to linguistics. Cory will go on to contrast various points of Halliday's approach to Chomsky's. Lively methodological discussions will ensue. Cory writes, "The idea behind the presentation is to look at a different approach so as to possibly raise questions, but more likely reaffirm the correctness of the approach(es) we are taught at UMass Amherst".
[Thanks David!]
Phonology Group
PhG will meet on Tuesday, November 14, 3:30 pm, in South College 301. Visitor Nathan Sanders will talk about his work on opacity and strong lexicon optimization.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
Chris Potts Guest Lectures on Computation and Game Theory
Chris Potts will be guest lecturing in Barbara Partee's Mathematical Linguistics class on November 14, 16, and 21. All the meetings are 1:00-2:15 pm in Herter 640.
November 14: Computation for theoretical linguistics --- when and where is it useful to take an algorithmic perspective?
November 16: The basics of game theory: strategic games with pure and mixed strategies, the minimax algorithm, equilibria, and signaling games. Chris will review the requisite background notions from probability theory.
November 21: Linguistic applications of game theory, with attempts to apply the lessons
Talks by Barbara and Volodja
Barbara and Volodja gave an invited colloquium at UConn on Friday November 3, on Sentential and Constituent Negation in Russian BE-sentences Revisited, based on work done jointly with their Russian consultants that they plan to work on some more. Barbara writes, "The UConn linguistics program turns out to have quite a number of Russian PhD students, and we got lots of great discussion (not only from them)."
In addition, Barbara and Voldja are about to hit the road, for an eight-talk, mulitcontinental tour. The schedule is here, and watch their NSF grant's website for handouts and additional details.
Report from BUCLD
Liane Jeschull writes
UMass Amherst was well represented at BUCDL 31. Altogether, there were nine presentations by former and current UMass Amherst students, visitors and allied faculty:
- Jill and Peter de Villiers
- Tanja Heizmann
- Bart Hollebrandse
- Liane Jeschull
- Catherine Léger
- Magda Oiry
- Anne-Michelle Tessier
- Angeliek van Hout
- Anna Verbuk
Magda, Tanja and Catherine provided for an entire session solely representing research by the UMass Amherst Acquisition Group.
I personally was very pleased to receive a Paula Menyuk Travel Award.
Outshining the success of the conference, however, latest news from Tom and Laura and their new grandchild quickly spread and engaged BUCLD conferees...
[Thanks Liane!]
The Opposite of 'If'
The opposite of 'if' [scroll to the box near the bottom of the page, and definitely follow the link from the top of that box]
[Thanks Bob!]