WHISC 3:29 --- November 3, 2005
Irene Heim
MIT
Friday, November 3, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
The NELS 36 weekend went off without a noticeable hitch --- we're sure there were stresses and strains behind the scenes but, as predicted, they didn't show.
The food was wonderful --- far and away the best conference food we've ever had --- and the party was a smashing success. As Lisa Selkirk said, "It was a terrific party, with lots of opportunity for good conversations as well as fine moves."
At the business meeting, it was decided that the next NELS meeting will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. So ... welcome to the Northeast, Illinois! (No one really knows what NELS stands for anyway.*)
*{North/New} {East(ern)/England} Linguistic(s) Society
A small photo album (photos care of Magda Oiry)
Lisa Shiozaki will present this week, 6:30 pm, in the Partee Room. Here's her description:
This week I'll talk about the accentual patterns observed in an (ongoing)
experiment of Japanese nonce words. I'll argue that the accentuation pattern in
Japanese is not determined on the basis that:
- loanword accentuation in Japanese has a basic default pattern on the antepenultimate mora (McCawley 1968), and
- Katayama's claim of the existence of the two types of Japanese accentual patterns in loanwords:
- the antepenultimate accent and
- the pre-antepenultimate accent
We'll be dealing with the data in the context of optimality theory; so
if you were here for Paula's talk on stress, this shouldn't be so
difficult to understand . . . and, of course, even if you missed, you
should still come. We'll do our best to go over all the necessary info.
Meredith Landman successfully defended her dissertation, Variables in Natural Language,
on October 27. Congratulations!
[Thanks Magda!]
PhG is back in session starting today:
- November 3: Peter Jurgec, who's visiting from Slovenia
for a couple weeks, will present his work in progress on exceptions and
loanwords, with particular emphasis on Slovene.
- November 10: Mathias Scharinger, who's visiting (November 7-17) from the University of Konstanz ,
will present his work. Details to follow.
- November 17: Anne-Michelle will present a paper by Jason Riggle, in
preparation for his colloquium.
SRG will meet today (November 3) around 8:00 pm at Florian's house. Continuing the E-type pronoun
theme from last time, Satoshi will be presenting Paul Elbourne's 2001 article 'E-type anaphora as
NP-deletion'.
As usually, feel free to bring beverages of your choice.
Florian and Jan
