CHUNG IN PRINT AGAIN

Volume 35 of Dictionaries, the journal of the Dictionary Society of America, contains a short report by Sandy Chung and Elizabeth D. Rechebei on the community-based revision of the Chamorro-English Dictionary. The Dictionary revision began in 2009, was supported from 2009 to 2013 by NSF, and is now in the editing phase. A prepublication version of the report, Community Engagement in the Revised Chamorro-English Dictionary, can be viewed here.

Separately Sandy learned this week that her first book, Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian, has come back into print(-on-demand). More information is available here.

 

CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN VANCOUVER

We have been asked to spread the word about a conference to be held in Vancouver between April 24th and April 26th 2015. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University, the title of the conference is Language at the Interface and the invited speakers include Peter Carruthers (Maryland), Wolfram Hinzen (Barcelona and Durham), Friederike Moltmann(CNRS and NYU), and Anna Papafragou (Delaware). Detailed information is available here but in brief the aim of the workshop is to explore a wide range of questions at the intersection of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy that might be raised in connection with the place of language in the architecture of the mind. The organizers (Ashley Atkins (SFU) and James Martin(Princeton/SFU)) invite 1—-2 page abstracts on any topic related to the language-mind interface, broadly construed. The abstract submission deadline is January 15, 2015. Anonymized abstracts should be sent to latkins@sfu.ca; the email message should include personal information (name, institution, contact information). More information is available at the conference website.

VAN DOOREN AT S-CIRCLE

Visiting researcher Annemarie van Dooren will be giving a talk this Friday, December 5th entitled “Dutch modals and their predicates: Three puzzles for compositionality.”  This last S-Circle of the year will be held, as always, at 4pm in the LCR.  The abstract for this talk is available here.

ALBRIGHT COLLOQUIUM

Adam Albright, now at MIT, held a position as Faculty Fellow at UCSC between 2002 and 2004. Adam returns to UCSC for the final colloquium of the quarter, to be held on Friday December 12th. Title, abstract, and other details about Adam’s visit will be announced shortly.

SAMKO AT STANFORD

A few weeks ago, Bern Samko made her way to Stanford for an invited talk.  She reports:

I traveled slightly north to present at Stanford’s Syntax and Morphology Circle. The talk was called “Topicality, focus, and intonation in English verb-phrase preposing”, and it sparked a lively discussion (which was mostly about neither syntax nor morphology).

CALL FOR PAPERS, SINN UND BEDEUTUNG

The University of Tübingen has asked us to announce the Call for Papers for the 20th meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung, to take place during the 9-12 September, 2015.  Abstract submissions for oral presentations or posters devoted to natural language semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language and psycholinguistic investigations related to meaning are welcome, and the deadline to submit is February 15, 2015.  More detailed information can be found here.

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