WHISC 3:26 --- October 13, 2005
Kyle Johnson
UMass Amherst
Cyclic linearization
Friday, October 14, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
SNEWS (the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics) will take place on Saturday, October 22,
at UConn. From UMass Amherst Linguistics, Jan Anderssen,
Keir Moulton, and
Youri Zabbal are presenting.
Contact Chris Potts if you'd like to make the trip.
A preliminary SNEWS 2005 schedule
On Thursday, October 27, at 4:15 pm in Herter 205, Meredith Landman will defend her dissertation,
titled Variables in Natural Language.
ATTENTION FRIDGE AND FREEZER USERS! In preparation for the
upcoming Friday Fridge Purge, please label your ingestibles. Any unlabeled
food, coffee, or opened drink bottles in the fridge or freezer will be
tossed.
Thank you! --Your untiring Fridge Monsters
John McCarthy was formally inducted into the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in a ceremony in Sanders Theater at Harvard University on Saturday,
October 8, 2005. Also attending were Barbara Partee (already a member),
Vladimir Borschev (Russian Academy of Science), Ellen Woolford, and Maryrose
Condon (John's aunt). Following the ceremony, a reception was held among the
exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
For more details:
Boston Globe:
Arts and sciences academy inducts 196 new members
Academy Elects 225th Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members
[Thanks Barbara and Ellen!]
The Post-BU Acquisition Workshop wil take place on November 7 at Smith College. This year, the focus is on African Languages.
Post-BU Acquisition Workshop schedule
Thanks to Jill de Villiers for organizing this workshop.
[Thanks Tom!]
The Undergrad DARLings meet today (October 13) at 6:30 pm in the Partee Room. Chris Potts
will talk about grad school applications, especially statements of purpose.
PhG meets at 4:00 pm today (October 13) in the Partee Room. Shigeto Kawahara will address the
following question: "If there is a universally-fixed markedness hierarchy,
would speakers know the constraint ranking without overt phonological or lexical
frequency evidence?" The work is titled
The markedness hierarchy of geminates
and mimetic gemination in Japanese
The PhG is also arranging a one-day workshop with MIT --- three papers from MIT, three from
UMass Amherst. This will probably happen in November.
The Syntax Reading Group meeet today (October 13) at 5:15 pm in the Partee Room. This
fortnight's topic is discontinuous deletion:
Gisbert Fanselow and Damir Cava. 2002.
Distributed deletion.
In Artemis Alexiadou, ed., Theoretical Approaches to Universals, 60-107. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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