WHISC 3:30 --- November 10, 2005
Mathias Scharinger
University of Konstanz
Height and place underspecification in vowels of
New Zealand English and German
and its relevance for speech recognition
November 10 (today), 4:00 pm, in the Partee Room
Luis Alonso-Ovalle
Or Preserves Semantic Identity:
Disjunction in Alternative Semantics
November 17, 2005, 4:00 pm, Machmer W-26
* and magic show!?
Barbara Partee and Vladimir Borschev's NSF grant group will meet on Monday, November 14,
at 2:30 pm, in Machmer W-26. (If W-26 happens to be full, the group will move to another nearby room in that hallway.)
Keir Moulton will talk about the
relevance Maria Bittner's work on antipassives has for the genitive of negation in Russian. The associated reading:
Maria Bittner. 1987.
On the Semantics of the Greenlandic Antipassive and Related Constructions.
International Journal of American Linguistics 53:194-231.
Youri Zabbal will report on the distribution of French de/des
in particular in existential sentences and negative existential sentences, and the group will discuss
potential parallels and non-parallels with Russian genitive of negation.
[Thanks Florian!]
The Syntax Reading Group meets today (November 10), 5:15-6:30 pm in the Partee Room. The topic will be
the merits of little v.
[con] Cherlon Ussery will discuss Julia Horvath and Tal Siloni's 200 paper
'Against the little-v hypothesis'.
[pro] Chris Davis will
present Richard Larson's
1988 Linguistic Inquiry paper 'On the double object construction'.
Shigeto Kawahara's paper 'A faithfulness scale projected from a perceptibility scale: The case of [+voice] in Japanese'
has been accepted for publication in Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America.
UUSLAW (UMass--UConn--Smith Language Acquisition Workshop) 2005 will take place on December 10,
here at UMass Amherst. Send your title and abstract to Tanja by November 30.
As part of her recent colloquium visit,
Irene Heim (1982 UMass Amherst PhD) installed the plaque on South College
303, The Heim Room, which provides work space for the First-Year Crew.
A huge thanks to you, Irene, for your support!
Shai looks delighted.
[Thanks Lisa and Sarah!]
a BUCLD photo album (with commentary)
[Thanks Tanja!]
The Five-College Undergraduate Philosophy Review is actually both a journal and a conference! And they are looking for editors and designers. Check out their website for information.
The Review has the amazing acronym SOAPBOX. (Students of Aesthetic Propensities Building Onomastic Xenogenesis!)
[Thanks Paula!]
WHISC turns 2 on November 12, 2005!
