Chris Hammerly will speak on `Agreement across clause types’ in the Syntax Workshop on Friday on September the 30th at 2.20pm in N458.
The schedule for the semester follows (thanks Nicholas LaCara):
23 September: Ethan Poole
30 September: Chris Hammerly
7 October: Hsin-Lun Huang
21 October: Rong Yin
28 October: Michael Wilson
4 November: Jyoti Iyer
16 or 18 November: TBA
2 December: Rodica Ivan
9 December: Troy Messick
Rajesh Bhatt gave an invited talk at the 9th SinFonIJA conference in Brno, Czech Republic, where he presented joint work with Vincent Homer on the anti-licensing of positive polarity items in Hindi-Urdu and its implications for devices that generate ultra wide-scope. SinFonIJA is a formal linguistics conference that in principle travels the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and former Yugoslavia. Lanko Marusic from the University of Nova Gorica is the founder of this conference. This year the conference was organized by Pavel Caha, Mojmír Do?ekal, and Markéta Ziková – you can see them below.
I was in Paris recently for the International Conference on Hindi Studies organized by Prof. Ghanshyam Sharma at INALCO and co-sponsored by the Indian embassy in Paris. This was an interesting conference in that it brought together linguists, language teachers, and literary scholars. I presented a paper on the realization of the Feminine Plural in Hindi-Urdu, co-authored with Stefan Keine (USC). A very gratifying aspect of presenting this paper at ICHS was that our formal analysis of the phenomenon seemed to be useful to the audience of language teachers too. Thank you Ekaterina Kostina!
(Pictures of INALCO, the barge on the Seine where the conference dinner was, Professors Ayesha Kidwai, Anoop Mahajan, Annie Montaut, Andrea Drocco and others follow.)
29 current UMass linguists and alums will be presenting papers and posters at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the LSA in Austin (Texas) in January. The contributions range from the Presidential Address by Alice Harris and an Invited Plenary Address by Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard, 1984 UMass PhD) to poster presentations by 1st year graduate students Kimberly Johnson and Andrew Lamont. The Program Committee for the conference was co-chaired by me (junior co-chair) and Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan, 2004 UMass PhD, senior co-chair), and also included Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley, 2010 UMass PhD). Here is the full program.
There should be enough UMass folks at the LSA in Austin that one evening we could have a mini-UMass reunion there. The LSA will be held at the exciting JW Marriott hotel in downtown Austin, which apart from being a great conference venue offers THE ULTIMATE CHOICE IN AUSTIN ROOFTOP POOLS. I am attaching a few gratuitous Austin pictures to tempt everyone to the LSA in Austin.
The UMass Linguistics Club presidents Anastasia Chobany and Mina Puig would like to announce that there will be a meeting of the club on Wednesday September 28 at 6:00pm in N400 of the ILC.
And then there will be a Lingle on Thursday September 29 at 6:00pm in N400 of the ILC. The Lingle is a meeting which involves short presentations on various items of interest (projected courses, applying for jobs, internships, grad school). At this Lingle, we will hear from Andrew Lamont about NACLO. Pizza will be served. We will do our best to respond to popular demand for the innovation that is the avocado quesadilla pizza.