Category: faculty
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Kennedy at SALT 18
The program for this year’s SALT has now been posted. Chris Kenndey will be presenting “What an ‘average’ semantics needs” with Jason Stanley from Rutgers.
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Merchant on “a couple of”
Jason Merchant’s theory on “a couple of” was discussed in William Safire’s recent musing on the different usages of “of”. To see why Safire wants to “fall off of” his chair, here’s the full article.
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John Goldsmith and Jerry Sadock Elected Honorary Fellows by the LSA
John Goldsmith and Jerry Sadock were elected Fellows of the Linguistics Society of America. The Fellows program was established in 2005 to recognize extraordinary contributions and service to the discipline and the Society. There will be a recognition ceremony for the 2008 Fellows immediately before the Presidential Address at the LSA meeting on Saturday, January…
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Alan Yu’s Book Published
Alan Yu‘s new book, A Natural History of Infixation, has been published by the Oxford University Press, in their Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series. Other books published in that series include Jason Merchant‘s The Syntax of Silence: Slucing, Islands, and the Theory of Ellipsis!
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Susan Goldin-Meadow at the Workshop on Language and Cognition
Susan Goldin-Meadow (U. Chicago, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor) will talk about “Gesture’s Role in Creating and Learning Language” at the Workshop on Language and Cognition on Friday, November 9 at 4pm in Green Hall, Room 104.