PHLUNCH
This week (Wednesday, 06/09, at 10 am, Zoom link), Ora Matushansky (CNRS) gave a talk on Russian stress.
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S-CIRCLE
Ksenia Ershova (Stanford) will give a talk titled “What a polysynthetic language can tell us about wh-movement and Phase Theory: Possessor extraction in West Circassian” on Friday, June 4th, 10:00 am-11:30 am.
Danfeng Wu (MIT) will present her recent work at the syntax-prosody interface on the same day, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
Both talks will be in this Zoom room (982 3942 8413, pw: interface).
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS VOLUME PUBLICATION
The volume on Parameters of Predicate Fronting, co-edited by Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (2005 alumna, U of Georgia) and Dennis Ott (U of Ottawa) is going to be published as part of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series on June 11. It also includes a chapter titled Verb Phrase I-topics in German, co-authored by Anya Hogoboom (2006 alumna, College of William & Mary) and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld.
Congratulations, Vera and Anya!
LINGUISTICS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE – FRIDAY, MAY 28
The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday, May 28, from 1:20 – 5:00pm via Zoom. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Chloe Willis, currently a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara.
Stay tuned for Zoom information!
ARTICULATING TRUST ROUNDTABLE – SATURDAY, MAY 29
We invite you to join us via Zoom this Saturday, May 29, from 1 – 2:30 p.m. Pacific time, for “Articulating Trust,” a cross-disciplinary roundtable conversation about language rights and socio-linguistic justice in higher education, public health, and society. Zoom links will be emailed on the 29th to participants who sign up to receive them.
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R/LAB
This week (Thursday, 05/27, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), R/Lab will have a small group project incubator meeting.
Here is their website.
PHLUNCH
This week (Wednesday, 05/26, at 10 am, Zoom link), Richard Bibbs led a discussion of Mayer & Daland (2020): A Method for Projecting Features from Observed Sets of Phonological Classes.
A tentative schedule can be found here.