Cheers to Kara Becker, whose article on "/r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side" has appeared in Journal of Sociolinguistics 2009, 13.5: 634-658. Here is the link to the on-line article.
Three cheers to Arthur, who has filed his dissertation entitled "The Microparametric Syntax of Resultatives in Chinese Languages". Committee Co-chairs: Chris Collins and Richard Kayne. Committee Members: Mark Baltin, Alec Marantz and C.-T. James Huang.
The dissertation is posted at Arthur's home page.
John Singler, on sabbatical in this semester, gave the keynote address to the annual conference of the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa / Southern African Applied Linguistics Association at Cape Peninsula, University of Technology in Cape Town. The talk was entitled "Variationist Sociolinguistics and the Niger-Congo Languages of West Africa: The Non-State of the Art."
He has recently given colloquia at the University of Western Australia, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the West Indies (Mona). The Mona campus of UWI is in Jamaica.
Amanda Rysling, an undergraduate linguistics major, has been named Silverstein Scholar for 2009-2010 by the College of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Amanda!
Cheers to Sonya for winning the best student poster award at NWAV 38! Her title was `Representations of blackness by white women: Linguistic practice in the
community versus the media'.
Best student paper/poster awards to our grads at previous NWAV's:
Karen Kirke paper 2004
Libby Coggshall paper 2007
Kara Becker & Amy Wong poster 2008
Dennis Ott (Harvard) will be giving a Syntax Brown bag on Friday, Oct 30th at 1:30pm in the 1st floor conference room (10 Washington Place).
Title:
Remnant Movement in German Revisited
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Marina Tzakosta from U. of Crete is visiting the department, next Tuesday, Nov 3.
Marina got her PhD recently from Leiden. Her Promotor (Dutch nomencl.) was
Vincent van Heuven, her supervisor was Jeroen van de Weijer and the external
reader was John J. McCarthy. In general, Marina's work is on prosody and the
acquisition of phonology.
Title and abstract of her talk @ 1:30, next Tuesday, Nov 3 are as follows ....
"Exploring the representation of complex segments: the case of Greek affricates"
ABSTRACT (examples and references can be found here [pdf])
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Maria Gouskova is giving a colloquium at MIT on Oct. 30, 2009. The title of her talk is "Exceptionality as a Property of Morphemes: the Case of Yers".
Chris Kennedy (U Chicago) will be giving a colloquium on Friday, Oct 30th at 4pm in the 1st floor classroom of 10 Washington Place. His talk is titled "Aspectual composition and scalar change". A reception will follow on the second floor.
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Norbert Hornstein (Maryland) will be giving a colloquium on Friday, Nov 6 titled "Speculations on a Minimalist Approach to Pronoun Binding". All colloquia take place in the first floor classroom of 10 Washington Place at 4:00pm.
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