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New Year's Day was bittersweet here in South College, as it marked
the start of retirement for
Lynne Ballard and
Barbara Partee. Barbara has
asked us to put off festivities for her until Fall 2004, but we said
goodbye to Lynne in style. Cards, letters, and e-mails poured in from
students, faculty, alumni, and other members of the South College community,
as did contributions to a gift of whatever computer equipment Lynne fancies
(we hope the gift will help her to keep in touch with us). Lynne's New Year's Eve departure makes the Y2K threats of old seem pretty tame. What chaos
lies in store for us with her office empty?
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Barbara is soon off to Russia, as usual in the Spring. She'll be back in
Amherst for the Fall 2004 semester, advising, instructing, researching...
her schedule for the next few decades is already packed full; she has left
herself precious little time for golfing and canasta.
The WHISC editorial offices were flooded with suggestions for how to
flesh out the collaboration graphs in last week's WHISC. Those graphs
have now been
updated:
Many thanks to John McCarthy, Barbara Partee, and Tom Roeper for the extra information.
* Note our clever use of dash distinctions to represent
the bracketing for this prenominal modifier. The en dash binds
more tightly than the hyphen.
If you see UMass linguists at the upcoming
meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, be
soothing and supportive: the chances are very high that
they are
interviewing. Do not ask them
how to move Mt. Everest.
It's raining choice functions New at
 :
Angelika Kratzer.
A note on choice functions in context. December 29, 2003.
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Love in the time of binding Two new Earthese offerings from
Emmon Bach:
Emmon Bach.
A chrestomathy of chestnuts. 111 pronoun puzzles from 1977.
Emmon Bach.
Structure and texture: Toward an understanding of real languages.
Paper presented at WECOL 2002, UBC.
[Thanks to
semantics etc.
(Kai von Fintel)
for the heads-up on these new offerings.]
Linguistic and linguistics humor, care of Language Log:
[Some of those jokes are pretty risqué; let your
Moral Compass assess the odds of offense.]
As we look ahead into 2004, we at WHISC would like to remind its readers
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