Category: Events

GRADUATE STUDENT SEMANTICS GET-TOGETHERS!

Last Saturday saw the first meeting of the new Unofficial Graduate student Get-togather on Semantics and pragmatics (UGGS). The theme of the premiere meeting was modified numerals: Karl DeVries on interaction between modified numerals and aspectual modifiers, and Matthijs Westra on the pragmatics of modified numerals, based on inquisitive semantics. This week UGGS will feature Anie Thompson, who will be workshopping a set of puzzles for the missing antecedent test in ellipsis, with special attention to the differences between singulars and plurals. She will also be offering a bonus discussion of some inverse scope puzzles if participants are interested. UGGS meets Saturdays 3-5pm in the Cave.

TUTORIAL IN PROGRAMMING FOR LINGUISTS

From Andrew Pedelty, Linguistics major:

If you’ve ever looked at a large set of data, a computationally complex problem, or a frustratingly useless corpus of text, “Man, I should get in on that programming stuff,” then this is your chance. I’ll be offering a tutorial of sorts in (at least) 3 parts over the coming weeks. We’ll start from scratch and end up in a place where students will be competent in their basics and confident in their ability to continue to grow as programmers. If this sounds interesting, send an email to Andrew Pedelty (apedelty@ucsc.edu) for more information or just show up at the LCR (Stevenson 249) at 4pm on this coming Monday, the 14th. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to check the hastily constructed website linked here for more information.

WORKSHOP ON LOCALITY AND DIRECTIONALITY AT THE MORPHOSYNTAX-PHONOLOGY INTERFACE THIS WEEKEND AT STANFORD

From the organizers of the workshop:

The Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface will be held on October 12 – 14, 2012 at CSLI (Cordura Hall, Stanford). This event will feature fourteen talks and a poster session, and we hope that you will come!

The workshop is free and open to all (thanks to generous funding from NSF, Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Stanford Linguistics Department), but we do request that you please register in advance (within the next week). You can learn more about the workshop and see the program on the conference website.

This workshop is a part of an on-going collaborative research group between UCSC and Stanford, Crosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP). We meet regularly throughout the year for in-house talks, invited speaker visits, and paper discussions, and if you’d like to join the CrISP mailing list, please contact Vera Gribanova (gribanov@stanford.edu).

MATT TUCKER GIVES IHR GRADUATE FELLOW COLLOQUIUM THIS FRIDAY

Ph.D. student Matt Tucker has been a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Humanities Research this year. This Friday, May 4th, at 4:00 pm Matt will give a colloquium talk presenting some of his research supported by the IHR. The talk will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and is entitled “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”. To read the abstract, click here.

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