Month: April 2008

  • Luis Vicente LingLunch on April 23

    Please mark your calendars for a syntax LingLunch talk by Luis Vicente (PhD Leiden, currently postdoc at UCSC) on Wed April 23 from 11am-12pm in the Lounge. “Deriving word order variation in Basque through prosody” Basque scholars agree that the word order of the language is constrained by discourse (topic/focus) factors. Traditionally, this intuition has…

  • Osamu Sawada in Paris!

    Osamu Sawada, who was an alternate at the Vagueness and Language Use conference (where Chris Kennedy was an invited speaker), was able to present his paper “Vagueness and Adverbial Polarity Items”. Based on reports from our spies in Paris, Osamu gave an excellent presentation, which stimulated a lot of questions that he handled thoughtfully and…

  • A busy Winter quarter for Sali!

    Salikoko Mufwene has been busy this past winter! He gave keynote addresses at the following recent conferences: 2008a. “From genetic creolistics to genetic linguistics: Lessons we should not miss!” 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, February 7-10. 2008b. “Emergence or creation? Rethinking the formation of Afro-American vernaculars and musics.” Conference on Black Music…

  • LaTex packages for Cascadilla proceedings

    Max Bane recently went through the odyssey of typesetting a paper for WCCFL 26 in LaTeX. WCCFL, along with a number of other conferences, publishes its proceedings through the Cascadilla Proceedings Project, which unfortunately provides no LaTeX package for authors to implement its style sheet. Some of the requirements were sufficiently tricky to implement (particularly…