Michael Wilson will defend his PhD dissertation “The Syntactic and Semantic Atoms of the Spray/load Alternation” on Friday, August 13 at 2:30. The defense is remote and open to everyone. You can find it here:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/92857413255?pwd=YXFSZ0dmdUlhNkZsWkFtYmFYRzd5UT09
passcode: 625391
Please join us!
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UMass at Chicago Linguistics Society meeting
University of Chicago hosted its annual Chicago Linguistics Society meeting April 26-8, and UMass was well represented. Former, present and future members of the UMass department were there:
Present students and faculty:
Peter Alrenga gave “Emphatic vs Exclusive Modification by ‘single’: A Unified Approach”
Rong Yin and Jeremy Hartman gave “Perspectives under Ellipsis.”
Michael Wilson gave “The Dative Illusion as an Argument for Lexicalist Argument Structure”
Former Students:
Jesse Harris (with Natasha Korotkova) gave: “Preference for single events guides perception in Russian: A phoneme restoration study”
Marcin Morzycki gave the invited talk: “Semantic Viruses and Multiple Superlatives”
Future Student:
Jonathan Pesetsky (with Saúl Fernández) gave: “Suppose Epistemic Contradictions Might Not Be Contradictions “
UMass at Pronouns in Competition Workshop
UC, Santa Cruz is hosting a workshop on Pronouns April 27 and 28. In addition to UMass alumnus Shayne Slogget, who is giving an invited talk, there are a large number of present and past UMass students making presentations.
Rodica Ivan is giving a paper entitled: “No Condition B? Context-dependent surface form preference!” And there are three posters:
Alex Goebel
“On German D-pronouns as Anti-Logophoric: Limiting a Competition-Based Account”
Nicholas LaCara
“Anaphoric one: When ellipsis is blocked”
Chris Hammerly
“Intrusive resumption can ameliorate island violations in real-time comprehension”
Troy Messick visits
Welcome Troy Messick to our department. Troy is visiting this year from UConn, and is teaching the syntax proseminar this Fall. His seminar is on the syntax and semantics of phi-features; it meets Tuesday and Thursday at 4:15 in N458. Stop by his office — N452 — and welcome him!
Stefan Keine becomes a Doctor
Stefan Keine defended his dissertation “Probes and their Horizons” on July 20th. He has left us now and taken up a new life as Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. Congratulations, Stefan!
Nick LaCara defends dissertation
Nick LaCara successfully defended his dissertation, “Deletion, Inversion, and Focus” on August 15th. He has taken a one-year teaching position at UMass. Stop by his new office and welcome him in his new guise to our department!