NYU Linguistics

Congratulations to Rahul Balusu on the successful defense of his dissertation, "OCP effects in Telugu." The committee consists of Lisa Davidson, Maria Gouskova, Adamantios Gafos, Gregory Guy, and Adam Albright.

Congratulations to Alec Marantz, who has been awarded a 3-year research grant from the NSF for the project, 'Morphological Decomposition in Derived Word Recognition: Single Trial Correlational MEG Studies of Morphology Down to the Roots' ($600K in funding).

Cheers to Oana Savescu Ciucivara, who has just filed her dissertation entitled "A Syntactic Analysis of Pronominal Clitic Clusters in Romance. The View from Romanian" (chair: Richard Kayne). The dissertation is posted at her home page.

Anna Szabolcsi is giving a talk entitled "Certain verbs are syntactically explicit quantifiers" at Logic, Language, Mathematics, a philosophy conference in memory of Imre Ruzsa, Sept. 17-19, 2009, Budapest.

Please save these upcoming dates for colloquium lectures this fall and spring. We have an exciting lineup this year!

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FALL 2009
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John Hale (Cornell) 9/18

Katherine Demuth (Brown) 9/25

Christine Mallinson (U. Maryland, Baltimore County) 10/9

Chris Kennedy (Chicago) 10/30

Norbert Hornstein (Maryland) 11/6

Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund University) 11/20

John Hale (Cornell) will be giving a colloquium talk next Friday, September 18th titled "What a rational parser would do". The talk will be in the linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, 1st floor. A reception will be held afterwords right upstairs on the 2nd floor.

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The brown bag schedule for Fall, 2009 is...

Benjamin Spector - CANCELLED -

Tom Roeper - Friday, Oct. 23

Dennis Ott (Harvard) - Friday, Oct. 30

Roni Katzir - Friday, Nov. 6

Judy Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini - Friday, Dec. 4

Katherine Demuth (Brown) will present her talk titled "Phonological Constraints on Morphological Development" in the colloquium on Friday, Sept. 25th in 10 Washington Place (first floor classroom). A reception will follow in the second floor.

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The semantics group will be meeting 10am to 12pm on Fridays, save for the first Friday of each month, when it meets at noon. The first talk was given by Violeta Vazquez Rojas on 9-18 (on the quantificational adjective puros), the second one will be by Inna Livitz on 9-25 (on the distributive vs collective readings of both). The subsequent schedule will be posted here. Members of the department and longer-term visitors should email Anna if they wish to be on the email list of the group.

In the Fall of 2009, the Phonetics and Experimental Phonology Lab will meet every other Tuesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on the 5th floor of 10 Washington Place. For the most up-to-date schedule and other information, please check out the Lab's website. The current line-up:

9/29: Maria Gouskova
10/13: Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
10/20: Kevin Roon and Adamantios Gafos
10/27: TBA
11/13: TBA
11/24: TBA
12/8: Adam Buchwald

Mike Solomon is giving a talk on "Partitives and the semantics of same" at Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna, Sept. 28-30, 2009.

Christine Mallinson (UMaryland, Baltimore County) will present a talk entitled "Bridging Professional and Public Linguistics" in the colloquium on Friday, October 9 in 10 Washington Place (first floor classroom). A reception will follow in the second floor.

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