Category: faculty
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Grano and Kennedy to SALT
Tommy Grano will present “Mental action and event structure in the semantics of ‘try’” at SALT 21 to be held at Rutgers University on May 20 – May 22, 2011. Chris Kennedy is also one of the invited speakers.
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Jason Riggle at UCSD
Jason Riggle just spoke at the linguistics colloquium of the University of Southern California, San Diego, on Generative models of variation within and between languages, the abstract of which follows: In this talk, I evaluate three proposed mechanisms for generative models of variation within language: (i) sampling from partially specified grammars, (ii) grammars with noisy…
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Two Chicagoan Speakers at USC
Professor Chris Kennedy will be giving a colloquium at the University of Southern California on Feb 22, on “The number of meanings of English number words”. He will be shortly followed by Chicago PhD student Max Bane, who will be giving his own colloquium at USC on Feb 25.
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Alan Yu around the World
Professor Alan Yu gave a research seminar recently (Feb 1) at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The talk was titled “Individual variation in socio-cognitive processing and the actuation of sound change”. He will also be giving a colloquium at Carleton University, Ottawa on March 11 on…
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Jason Merchant at MIT and Stanford this Spring
Professor Jason Merchant will be giving an invited colloquium at MIT on March 11, and is also an invited speaker at a workshop on ellipsis at Stanford, this April 29-30. He doesn’t know yet what he’ll talking on at either place, but says it will probably be about gender features under ellipsis.