Norvin Richards Colloquium
Norvin Richards
MIT
Tagalog prosody and the cross-linguistic distribution of wh-in-situ
Friday, March 3, 2:30 pm, Machmer W-26
A reception and pizza party will follow in the lounge afterwards.
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04:06 (2006-03-02)
March 2, 2006
The ECO 5 Syntax Workshop
The ECO 5 Syntax Workshop will take place at MIT, in the Stata Center, this weekend (March 4-5). The program features talks by four UMass Amherst students:
- Michael Becker,Verum focus and T-to-Neg movement in English
- Chris Davis, Evidence for movement in Japanese relative clauses
- Amy Rose Deal, On selection in expletive constructions
- Makoto Kadowaki, Sluicing in Japanese
Hampshire Talk on Facial Expressions
Hampshire College Program in Culture Brain and Development Presents:
Paul Whalen
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College in the
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
The Information Value of Facial Expression of Emotion
5:30 pm, March 9, East Lecture Hall, Franklin Petterson Hall, Hampshire College
Kyle Johnson, Colloqs on Demand
Last week, the department found itself short one colloquium speaker. On very short notice, Kyle Johnson stepped into the spotlight to deliver 'Gapping isn't ellipsis'. Thanks Kyle!
College Outstanding Teaching Award for Angelika Kratzer
Angelika Kratzer has been awarded a College Outstanding Teaching Award.
So the list of such awards for our faculty continues to grow. It now includes Lyn Frazier, Kyle Johnson, Angelika Kratzer, John McCarthy, Tom Roeper, and Ellen Woolford.
Undergraduate Linguistics Club
The Undergrad DARLings will meet today (March 2), at 6:30 pm, in the Partee Room. Note the slightly later start-time --- this is a permanent change, to avoid overlap with the biweekly Syntax Reading Group.
The DARLings have shifted their emphasis a bit. In the past, it was all original research. These days, they alternate between that and a more traditional reading group format, with people presenting others' papers. Very often, this is in preparation for an upcoming colloq.
For instance, to prepare for Jason Riggle's colloq, Paula Aden presented some stuff on learning algorithms, with emphasis on the contenders algorithm. This week, David Fiske will present something relating to Norvin Richards' work.
Undergraduate Research Conference Deadline
A reminder to all UMass Amherst undergrads:
Abstracts for the Undergraduate Research Conference in Boston are due by 11:59 pm this Sunday, March 5. An abstract cannot exceed 250 words. You can register to do either an oral or a poster presentation.
Phonology Group
On March 8, at 3:30 pm, in South College 301, the PhG will discuss Lev Blumenfeld's paper 'Tone domains in Tonga'.
Syntax Reading Group
The Syntax Reading Group meets today. Amy Rose Deal and Chris Davis will give practice talks for ECO 5 (MIT, March 4-5).
Semantics Reading Group
On March 9, Ilaria Frana and Florian Schwarz will give practice talks for SALT 16. New location: Amy Rose's place. Start-time as usual: 8:00 pm.
Florian's general's paper, on which his SALT talk will be based, is available here.
On March 16, the group poses the question "Where have all the quantifiers gone?" --- the first in a series of meetings on the foundations and current state of generalized quantifier theory. The group will begin begin with the following paper by Ed Keenan:
Keenan, Edward L. 2002. Some properties of generalized quantifiers. Linguistics and Philosophy 25:627-654.
After spring break, the GQ-series will continue, with the next step probably Angelika Kratzer's recent contribution to the Festschrift for Barbara Partee, which is called 'Indefinites and functional heads: From Japanese to Salish'.
Gennaro Chierchia to Harvard
Gennaro Chierchia (1984 UMass Amherst PhD) has accepted a position in the Linguistics Department at Harvard. It will be wonderful for us to have him so close by.
Taka Shinya at Speech Prosody 2006
Taka Shinya's paper 'Lexical Accent Status Affects Perceived Prominence of Intonational Peaks in Japanese' has been accepted by Speech Prosody 2006, to be held on May 2-5, 2006 in Dresden, Germany.
Recent Faculty Colloquia Elsewhere
We realize that this information isn't comprehensive, but it's all we've got (all we were sent):
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Rajesh Bhatt gave a colloquium at NYU on February 24. The talk was called 'Relativizing in space and time'. He is giving an updated version of this at the UT Austin Discourse Workshop on March 3.
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Kyle Johnson spoke at MIT on February 17. His talk was called 'Too many examples are thought to be ellipsis and too few, across-the-board movement'.
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Chris Potts visited OSU, February 23-25. He gave two talks, one called 'The expressive dimension' and another called 'Integrated pragmatic values'. Chris is off to Brown on March 6 to give a more computationally-oriented version of the 'Pragmatic values' talk.
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Angelika Kratzer and John McCarthy are both scheduled to give colloquia at MIT this semester: John on March 10, and Angelika on May 12.
Please send us more news about your talks and the like. Students --- the goes for you too!
Pictures from Barbara and Volodja from Down Under
Barbara Partee and Vladimir Borschev are in New Zealand this semester, on an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch. Barbara is presently teaching an undergraduate introduction to semantics. Barbara reports that they are happily settled now on the South Island. "So far," she writes, "the most exotic things are the trees, even more than the birds."
Barbara under/on/by yellow cedar, Christchurch Botanical Gardens
Volodja as a measuring-stick for a giant eucalyptus, Christchurch Botanial Gardens