Month: April 2009
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Florian Jaeger visiting next week
T. Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Univ. of Rochester) will be visiting next Thursday and Friday, May 7-8. He will be giving a talk in the Language, Cognition and Computation Workshop (abstract to come) on Friday at 3:30 in the Karen Landahl Center. He will also be giving two statistics tutorials: One (Thursday) on…
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Lehr fellowship award
Rachel Lehr has been awarded an AAUW dissertation fellowship for her dissertation, Pashai Grammar. Rachel is in Afghanistan right now doing fieldwork on Pashai. Congratulations, Rachel!
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More QP cheers
…to Tommy Grano, who has successfully defended his second qualifying paper, “English Emotive Factive Verbs and the Semantics of Nonfinite Complementation.” Excellent work, Tommy!
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Yu at Stony Brook
Alan Yu will be giving a colloquium at SUNY Stony Brook this Friday, May 1. The title of his talk is “Toward a rational account of channel bias.”
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CLS 45 is here!
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society starts tomorrow! The conference will be held at the International House from Thursday through Saturday. U of C students attend for free, so just go right to the “pre-registration check-in” table. All others can check in at the registration table. As you know, our theme this year…