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This Friday, Dr. Adrian Staub (UMass Psychology & Brain Sciences) will give a colloquium talk.  The talk will take place on Friday, Dec. 4 at 1:20 pm via Zoom (Stay tuned for the Zoom and talk information!).

MRG read Toosarvandani (2016) for the meeting this week (3 pm, Monday, 11/30). For the meeting next week on Dec. 7 (Monday), they will read De Clerq & Wyngaerd: Suppletion in Czech Comparatives at 3 pm at this Zoom link.

More information about MRG can be found on their official website. Supplementary information can be found here.

Yaqing Cao will present her preliminary work on the processing of focus intervention in Mandarin on Tuesday, Dec. 1st, at 10 am in this Zoom link. A full schedule of S/LAB can be found here. To see what they’ve done in the past, visit this website.

This week in WLMA, Robert Henderson (University of Arizona) will give a talk titled “Pluractionality and Distributivity on the Edge of Mesoamerica.” The presentation will take place this Tuesday (Nov. 17th) from 12:00-1:00 pm in this Zoom room.

The SUMSC meeting will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 2nd, at 1 pm in their usual Zoom room (979 2662 4935, pw: monads). They will discuss Chris Barker’s (2020) paper on “Rethinking scope islands”, available here.

For the Phlunch meeting this week (1 pm, Thursday, Dec. 3rd), Andrew Angeles will lead a discussion on Bell and Plag (2012) “Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English.” They will meet in their usual Zoom room(230 326 093, pw: 655218). A full schedule of Phlunch can be found here.

Ivy Sichel presented her joint work with Maziar Toosarvandani at NYU Brown bag syntax lunch on Friday (Nov. 13th), titled “The featural life of nominals.”