WHISC has moved to this new location and this new weblog format. Our thanks again to Jan for setting up the software and for adapting the existing departmental stylesheets to this new environment. The new WHISC looks just like the old WHISC, but it is much more useful and adaptable.
This week, Ryan O'Mara will be presenting, at 6:00 pm today (February 23),in the Partee Room. Here's Ryan's short description:
i'll be presenting on approaches to dealing with yes/no questions. we'll make use of tools from pragmatics, and we'll also consider current approaches being offered through epistemology. overviews will be provided in both pragmatics and epistemology, so no a priori knowledge (hehehe) is expected.
Addtionally, students from the undergraduate linguistics group are planning to submit abstracts to the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, which will take place at Harvard, April 22-23 (abstracts are due March 17) and/or the Massachusetts undergraduate research conference. They are meeting this Friday, February 24, to work on their abstracts together. All interested undergrads are welcome.
This week's meeting has been postponed until March 8. The plan for March 8 is to discuss Lev Blumenfeld's recent ROA posting, 'Tone domains in Tonga'. The next meeting is on March 1 --- Matt Wolf will disuss his work on antifaithfulness.
The full schedule is as follows:
| March 1 | Matt Wolf on antifaithfulness |
| March 8 | Lev Blumenfeld's paper 'Tone domains in Tonga' |
| March 29 | Mike Key's GLOW practice talk |
| April 12 | Anne-Michelle Tessier's WCCFL 25 practice talk |
Dalina Kallulli presents today (February 23) in the syntax reading group. The title of the talk is 'Resumption and concealed relatives'. All are welcome!
The Evidentials Grant Group will meet on Monday, February 27, at 12:15 pm, in the Partee Room. Jill deVilliers will lead discussion of an experiment on the acquisition of demonstratives in English. All are welcome.
I've basically been under house arrest for the past week, going only from the house, to the car, to the office due to the riots. There's another big strike planned for friday, although in Karachi they were able to protest peacefully, so I'm hoping the Lahoris can follow their example this time and avoid burning down buildings and the like. Things have calmed down for the moment, and yesterday I took a public bus all by myself from the center of town to the house. It doesn't sound exciting, but believe me, it was a big move towards being mobile again!
