Month: May 2007

  • Kirby and Yu at EXPOT

    Later this week, James Kirby and Alan Yu will be presenting “Hidden knowledge of syllable gap wellformedness” at the Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For more information, go here.

  • Congratulations!

    Several students have successfully defended their QPs last week: James Kirby: “Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgments in Cantonese.” Stefie Kuzmack: “In re re: A Case of Simultaneous Grammaticalization and Degrammaticalization.” Patrick Midtlyng: “On hiatus resolution in Washo.” Osamu Sawada: ‘Pragmatic aspects of implicit comparison: An economy-based approach’. Well done y’all!

  • Stensrud awarded Mellon Fellowship

    Kjersti Stensrud has been awarded a Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2007-08. Well-done, Kjersti!

  • NEW BALOCHI COURSE FOR AUTUMN 2007

    Introduction to Balochi SALC 27001, 37001 or LGLN 25800, 35800 TuTh 1:30 – 2:50 Instructor: Elena Bashir This course will be a combination of a “structure of a language” course and a beginning language course. It is intended as an orientation to Balochi, a Western Iranian language spoken in several dialects in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan…

  • COMPOSITIONALITY LECTURE ON WEDNESDAY

    On Wednesday, Richard Heck (Brown) is giving the lecture “What is Compositionality?” as part of a workshop series on 20th-century British philosophy. The talk will be at 4:30 at the Franke Institute.