Month: February 2010

  • Dr. Sawada!

    Hearty congratulations to Osamu Sawada, who successfully defended his dissertation, ‘Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers,’ this morning.  Well done!

  • More for Max and Morgan

    In addition to each presenting at BLS36, Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger have a couple more talks lined up in the near future. First, Max will be presenting a longer version of his work on the English dative alternation at the Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop on February 8, as well as a related paper,…

  • Chicagoans heading for Berkeley this month

    A number of U.Chicagoans will be giving papers at BLS36 this month (program with abstracts here), on a variety of topics including prosody, syntax, historical phonology and discourse. Max Bane will be talking on “A Combinatoric Model of Variation in the English Dative Alternation”. Andrew Dombrowski (Slavic/Ling.) will present his paper, “When is orthography not just orthography? The…

  • Arum’s QP2

    As of last week, Arum Kang has defended her second qualifying paper, entitled “On the role of the Accentual Phrase in Korean in semantic interpretation of NP coordination.”  Now on to dissertation mode! In addition, Arum will be giving a talk based on her QP work, “On the semantic role of the accentual phrase in Korean NP Coordination,”…