Tom Roeper gave an invited lecture on: Recursion, Strict Interfaces, and Multiple Grammars on December 3rd in Tjansin, China

at the 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics.    There were 200 participants and Juan Uriagereka, former

UMass faculty, gave a lecture on his recent work on the mathematical connections between linguistics and physics.

Tom also had a chance to exchange ideas with a lively acquisition community in Beijing and others from Hong Kong.