NYU Linguistics http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/ Official news and events of the NYU Linguistics Department en Copyright 2009 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:34:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Maria Gouskova to speak at Eastern Michigan Maria will be giving a colloquium at her undergraduate alma mater, Eastern Michigan University, on Friday the 20th of November.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_eas.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_eas.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:34:30 -0500 Eytan Zweig in Linguistics and Philosophy Cheers to Eytan Zweig (PhD January 2008), whose article on "Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature" has just appeared online in Linguistics and Philosophy; read here; doi: 10.1007/s10988-009-9064-3 .

Co-incidentally, Eytan is in town this week, and tomorrow he is giving a talk related to this article in the Semantics Group (10am -- meet at 9:45 for coffee).

As a reminder, the schedule of the Semantics Group presentations is to be found here.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/eytan_zweig_in_linguistics_and.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/eytan_zweig_in_linguistics_and.html Announcements Recent Publications Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:18:02 -0500 Colloquium: Halldor Sigurdsson (Nov. 20) Halldor Sigurdsson, from Lund University, will give a talk in the NYU
Linguistics Colloquium Series this Friday 11/20 at 4:00pm. The title
of the talk is "Natural Nulls," abstract included below.

Abstract:

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]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/mike_taylor_in_american_speech.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/mike_taylor_in_american_speech.html Announcements Recent Publications Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:20:26 -0500 Kara Becker in Journal of Sociolinguistics 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.


]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/kara_becker_in_journal_of_soci.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/kara_becker_in_journal_of_soci.html Announcements Recent Publications Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:48:18 -0500 Arthur Wang dissertation in syntax 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.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/arthur_wang_dissertation_in_sy.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/arthur_wang_dissertation_in_sy.html Recent Publications Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:07:10 -0500 Syntax Brown Bag: Roni Katzir (Nov 6) Roni Katzir will be giving a syntax brown bag on Friday Nov 6 at 1:30pm.

Title: On the roles of context and structure in the theory of alternatives
(Joint work with Danny Fox, MIT)

Abstract:
We present an argument for revising the theory of alternatives for Scalar Implicatures and for Association with Focus. We argue that in both cases, the alternatives are determined in the same way, as a contextual restriction of the focus value of the sentence, which, in turn, is defined in structure-sensitive terms. We provide evidence that contextual restriction is subject to a constraint that prevents it from discriminating between alternatives when they stand in a particular logical relationship with the assertion or the prejacent, a relationship that we refer to as symmetry. Due to the constraint on contextual restriction, discriminating between alternatives in cases of symmetry becomes the task of focus values. This conclusion is incompatible with standard type-theoretic definitions of focus values, motivating our structure-sensitive definition instead.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/syntax_brown_bag_roni_katzir.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/syntax_brown_bag_roni_katzir.html 2009 Fall Events Syntax Brown Bag Title/Abstract Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:46:51 -0500 Talks by John Singler 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.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/talks_by_john_singler.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/talks_by_john_singler.html Upcoming Talks Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:20 -0500 Amanda Rysling is Silverstein Scholar Amanda Rysling, an undergraduate linguistics major, has been named Silverstein Scholar for 2009-2010 by the College of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Amanda!

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/amanda_rysling_is_silverstein.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/amanda_rysling_is_silverstein.html Announcements Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:58:25 -0500 Sonya Fix wins NWAV 38 Best Student Poster Award 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

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/sonya_fix_wins_nwav_38_best_st.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/sonya_fix_wins_nwav_38_best_st.html Announcements Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:59:05 -0500 Syntax Brown Bag: Dennis Ott (Oct. 30) 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

Abstract:

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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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]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_mit.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_mit.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:34:25 -0500 Colloquium: Chris Kennedy (Oct 30) 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.

Abstract:

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Abstract:

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