Guru Merchant at UMass
Monday, March 31st, 2008Want to be enlightened? Jason Merchant will be at UMass, Amherst for the next three weeks, serving as the visiting “syntax guru”.
Archive for March, 2008
Chris Kennedy in Paris this April
Monday, March 31st, 2008Chris Kennedy will be a keynote speaker at the Vagueness and Language Use conference at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He will talk about “Vagueness and Comparison“.
Adjectives and Adverbs Published!
Monday, March 31st, 2008“Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics and Discourse“, a volume that Louise McNally and Chris Kennedy edited for the Oxford University Press, has just came out. The website for everyone who wants to rush out and get a copy is: 
Amy Dahlstrom on the Importance of Meskwaki
Monday, March 31st, 2008Amy Dahlstrom is an invited speaker at the Meskwaki symposium this Saturday. She will be talking about “The Importance of Language and the Importance of Meskwai”.
Jasmin Urban to Tunisia
Monday, March 31st, 2008Jasmin Urban has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Tunis, Tunisia this summer. Way to go, Jasmin!
Nikki Adams Defended Dissertation Proposal
Monday, March 31st, 2008Nikki Adams successfully defended her dissertation proposal on “The Internal Arguments of the Zulu Ditransitive” on March 31. Congratulations, Nikki!