March 24, 2005
Christine Gunlogson
University of Rochester
Pragmatics for questions
Friday, March 25, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
Party at Chris's at 6:30!
Christine Gunlogson will be presenting a talk entitled 'Investigating
intonational meaning' on Thursday, March, 24, at 4:00 pm in Hasbrouck 104A, as part
of the seminar on Tone and Intonation. Anyone interested is welcome to
attend.
Students in the Tone and Intonation seminar and in the Field Methods class
should take good note of the time. This week, exceptionally, the Field
Methods class will be meeting on Thursday at 1:00 pm in Hasbrouck 104A, not at
4:00 pm, and vice versa for the Tone and Intonation class.
On April 18, Chris Potts will run the Boston Marathon as one of the runners in the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge, to raise money for the Claudia Adams Barr program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Follow this link to contribute to Chris's run! Any amount is great!
This will be Chris's eighth marathon run for Dana-Farber. It is a wonderful program: 100% ofthe funds raised by Challenge runners go directly to young Dana-Farber researchers who are exploring innovative techniques for curing cancer. Last year, Challenge runners raised over $3.5 million.
Chris's younger sister Ali will also run the race for Dana-Farber, so your contributions can be thought of as going to team Potts.
The syntax reading group will meet earlier than usual this week: today (Thursday, March 24), at 4:30 pm,
in the Poststructuralist Lounge. The paper they will be talking about is 'Cyclic linearization of
syntactic structure', by Danny Fox and David Pesetsky. The paper can be
downloaded from Pesetsky's website.
[Thanks Peggy!]
[Thanks John McCarthy!]
Andries Coetzee has accepted a tenure-track position
in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. He has
been the Language Learning Visiting Assistant Research Professor, and
will be starting this permanent position in the fall.
Eva Juarros-Daussà (2003 UMass PhD) will start a tenture-track position at SUNY Bufalo this September.
Paula Menéndez-Benito has accepted a visiting professorship in semantics at
UC Santa Cruz.
Adam Werle has accepted a job with the Ditidaht First Nation on Vancouver Island to
assist in all aspects of the revitalization of the Ditidaht language, to begin
fall 2005. Adam will concurrently be a visitor at the University of Victoria.
In addition, Adam's paper 'Ditidaht vowel alternations and prosody' has been selected for
inclusion in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics on Wakashan languages.
Anna Verbuk is presenting 'Acquisition of supplementary expressions" at the Experimental Pragmatics conference at
University of Cambridge, April 14-16.
Anna is also presenting 'Russian predicate clefts as S-Topics' at FASL 14,
May 6-8.
Rajesh Bhatt is off to SALT 15, at UCLA, this weekend, where he will present joint work with Yael Sharvit: 'A note on superlatives in intensional contexts'.
Also: on March 7, Rajesh guest lectured on correlatives in the More Advanced Syntax class taught by Sabine Iatridou and Michel DeGraff at MIT.
One of the images of an assignment for Rajesh Bhatt's Ling 401:
[Thanks Rajesh!]
Rainy Stanford, one of our undergraduate majors, saw these WHISC pictures of Joe Pater with his guitar. She wrote to Joe, and now she's
playing drums in Atomica. They'll play their first show
together at the Flywheel, Sunday April 3.
[Thanks Joe!]
