Category: Faculty News

The week before Thanksgiving Adrian Brasoveanu spent time at Stanford University. On Wednesday (Nov 16) he gave a tutorial on dynamic semantics. (Get the slides here!) On Thursday (Nov 17) he gave a talk on “Sentence-internal ‘Different’ as Quantifier-internal
Anaphora” (Get the handout here!) This talk is based on a paper that has just appeared in Linguistics & Philosophy, available online here.

Grant McGuire will be presenting a poster entitled “Sub-phonemic correlates of gender and regional identity in California” at the upcoming Acoustical Society Meeting in San Diego (Oct. 31 – Nov. 4). This work is done in collaboration with alumna Angela Aiello (MA 2009), alumnae Jackie DeLeon, Lauren Negrete, Alice Nicholls, Kasondra Vanpykeren-Gerth (all BAs 2011), and current undergraduate Tariq El-Gabalawy.

Grant will also present a paper, along with recent graduate Joseph King (BA 2011), Molly Babel (Asst. Professor at University of British Columbia), and Alyssa Satterwhite (BA University of British Columbia, 2011), called “Vocal aesthetics, stereotypicality, and prototypicality” at the upcoming 40th annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference at Georgetown University, Oct 28th – 30th.

Donka Farkas is one of four distinguished invited speakers at this year’s Amsterdam Colloquium 2011 (Dec 19-21).

Their poster, “Licensing Sentence-internal Readings in English: An Experimental Study”, was accepted at the same Amsterdam Colloquium 2011. See the abstract here!

A paper by Ryan Bennett, Grant McGuire, Máire Ní Chiosáin, and Jaye Padgett will be presented at the CUNY Conference on the Segment in Phonology in New York City this January. You can read the abstract here, and we are taking bets on who gets to visit New York.

The Linguistic Society of America announced that Jorge Hankamer has been elected a Fellow of the Society. Jorge will be inducted, with other members of the 2012 class, in a ceremony which will take place during the LSA’s annual Business Meeting on Friday, January 6 at 5:30 pm, during the society’s Winter Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

A small class of Fellows (no more than 5% of the society’s membership) is elected each year in recognition of distinguished contributions to the discipline.

With Jorge’s election, the number of faculty members in the department to have been so honored rises to six (including 2 emeriti/ae). In addition to Jorge, Judith Aissen, Sandy Chung, Bill Ladusaw, Jim McCloskey, and Geoff Pullum are all LSA Fellows.