Month: May 2007

  • GUEST LECTURE IN SEMANTICS: URTZI ETXEBERRIA

    This Wednesday there will be a guest lecture in Prof. Giannakidou’s Semantics 2 class, by Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS/University of the Basque Country). Urtzi will talk about the structure of quantificational phrases, and will examine a wide array of languages from Basque to Greek to Salish. The title of the talk is: “On how some languages…

  • GAL & GOLDSMITH ELECTED TO AAAS

    Susan Gal and John Goldsmith were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. Congratulations!

  • THE WASHO PROJECT AT WAIL

    The Washo Project will be a strong presence at the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages to be held later this week at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Eric Morley will give a paper on “Washo stress assignment and suffix ordering”. Robert Peachey and Kjersti Stensrud will give a paper on “Switch-reference in Washo revisited”.…

  • SATTERFIELD’S TALK POSTPONED

    Teresa Statterfield‘s colloquium on Thursday, May 10 has been postponed. Please check the colloquia page for updates.