STANFORD WORKSHOP ON HEAD MOVEMENT

Just before the new academic year opened (September 16th and 17th), our neighbors in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University hosted a Workshop on the Status of Head Movement in Linguistic Theory. The workshop, which was organized by alums Vera Gribanova and Boris Harizanov, engaged some of the difficult questions surrounding head movement and the phenomena it describes in the contemporary theoretical landscape. Among the presenters were Vera and Boris, Jim McCloskey, and MA alumnus Nick LaCara. Nick had just successfully defended his dissertation Inversion, Focus, and Ellipsis at Amherst and now holds a teaching position there.