Good Luck at the LSA!
Many from South College are giving talks and interviews at the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting, January 4-7, in Anaheim, California.
A special note for those of you who are giving interviews: We assume you are busy estimating the number of bicycles in the United States and imagining how you'd design Bill Gates' bathroom. Good. But we recently learned, via experts in the department, that you need to be prepared for an even tougher question: Your interviewer might have the nerve to say, out of fatigue or malice, "So, tell us a bit about yourself." How can you turn that into a friendly, modest, relatively short, but quietly self-serving reply?
Current UMass Amherst Grad Students Presenting
(let us know if we missed anyone)
Kathryn Flack: Phonotactic restrictions across prosodic domains
Matthew Wolf: Vice-versa as contrastive focus
Helen Stickney: Children's acquisition of the partitive: A deficient DP
Shai Cohen: Too in the complement of the verb believe
Shigeto Kawahara (with Matthew Wolf): A root-initial-accenting suffix in Japanese
Cherlon Ussery: AGREE to control: Case optionality in Icelandic
Michael Becker (with Nihan Ketrez an Andrew Nevins): When and why to ignore lexical patterns in Turkish obstruent alternations
Adam Werle: Three approaches to Serbo-Croation second-position clitic reordering
Anna Verbuk: Why children do not compute irrelevant scalar implicatures
There are also boatloads of South College alums presenting their work --- check out the full schedule for more details.
Update: The Annual Meeting of SSILA happens at the same time, in the same impersonal conference center, as the LSA. Elena Benedicto (1998 UMass Amherst PhD) is giving a talk, as is Emmon Bach, in a joint presentation with UBC-ers Fiona Campbell and Pat Shaw.
