WHISC 3:27 --- October 20, 2005
Tom Roeper, Peggy Speas, Jill de Villiers, Jay Garfield (Smith Philosophy) and Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie (head of
Navajo studies at Northern Arizona University) have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation. It's called
Epistemology and Indexicality in English, Tibetan and Navajo.
From Michael:
>>>>>> Can we meet Thursday at noon?
>>>>> I teach until 12:30, how about 1:00?
>>>> I have class at 1:00, can we meet on Monday at 11?
[...]
We have all exchanged many such emails. But now there is a solution! You
can keep an online public schedule. People who want to meet with you will
look at your schedule and find an empty slot that works for them.
Scheduling a meeting will never require more than one email exchange.
As an example, you can see my schedule
here.
And you can play with a test schedule here.
To update the schedule, use the link at the bottom left corner of the
page. The password is "cvcv".
If you want to have your schedule online, write to me an email with the
subject line "Dude, this is awesome!". Include the address of your
homepage, a user name, and a password.
Thanks to Chris Potts for inspiration.
Thanks to John Kingston for getting us the CGI account that hosts this application.
[Thanks to Michael for doing this --- some WHISC editors]
There is now a SNEWS 2005 website.
SNEWS happens this Saturday, October 22, at UConn. UMass Amherst maxed out on its presenter-slots
(Youri Zabbal, Keir Moulton, Jan Anderssen), and they will have a good-sized support team along with
them.
Former undergraduate students Robin Gordon-Leavitt and Joshua Maislin
will be performing in West Side Story at the Footlight Community
Club in Jamaica Plain during the month of November. If you would like
to catch a performance, you can order tickets here.
"Young Leonhard Matthias Grunkin-Paul has a problem: His name is illegal." ...
Alessandro and Francesca Foppolo are proud to announce that Lorenzo Foppolo was
born on October 3, 2005, at 1:25 pm.
Francesca writes, "he really seems happy with life...look at
his face!"
From Annahita:
A note to inform you that last week's fridge purge was carried out on Friday
afternoon as promised. Thanks very much to those of you who did label their
items.
As for those items still lacking a label, which constituted the vast
majority, all of them were duly discarded, but only, it must be confessed, with
considerable difficulty and hesitation, due to the discarders' failure to live
up to the heartless lack of mercy suggested in the notice.
In any case, it
is to be hoped that they were all things that their owners did not want and not
anything anyone was planning to eat. (On this note, it might as well also be
confessed that not all of the unlabeled things were thrown away: a lunch in a
plastic bag on the top shelf was spared, as was the half empty box of lemon
sorbets in the freezer.) But perhaps the owners of those items and any new ones
to be put there this week could label them before next Friday, when the next
quick cleaning-out will be done, if only to ease the consciences of
Your less-than-merciless Kitchen Monsters
From Paula and Patrick:
hello everyone!
first of all, thanks to chris potts for coming to last week's meeting
to talk to us about grad schools.
tomorrow's meeting will be, as usual, in south college 301 at 6:30 pm.
the meeting next week (10/27) is cancelled due to the fact that many
of us are planning to attend meredith landman's dissertation defense,
which is also next thursday. see whisc for more details!
this week, the presenter will be me [paula aden]. i will be giving a
typological overview of metrical stress theory, drawing data from
languages such as palestinian arabic, icelandic, cayuga, and klamath.
i will be specifically talking about the data in the context of
optimality theory, so there will also be a brief introduction to ot.
no previous knowledge of phonology, stress, or ot is required to
comprehend this presentation!
a fantastic time will be had by all! & there will be snacks!
we hope to see you all tomorrow! :)
- paula & patrick
SRG meets today (October 20) at 8:00 pm at Jan and AMT's house. The topic is Irene Heim's
1990 criticism of Irene Heim's dissertation:
Heim, Irene. 1990. E-type pronouns and donkey anaphora. Linguistics and Philosophy 13(2):137-177.
SPRIG meeets today (October 22) in the Partee Room at 4:00 pm (PhG is taking the week off).
This week, Michael Becker will present
CCamelOT, his Perl/JavaScript implementation
of OT with Candidate Chains. His goals are (a) to make you want to add constraints to CCamelOT;
and (b) to help you see how Perl might be useful for your own projects.
The Syntax Reading Group meets today (October 21), from 5:15 to 6:15 pm in the Partee Room. The
topic is 'Distributed deletion', a leftover from
last week's meeting.
Preregistration for the BU Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) ends tomorrow (October 21).
[Thanks Amy Rose!]
Reminder: The WHISC B-Day Database is limited. Please let us know if you even suspect that
we might not have your birthday recorded.
