First year, Andrea Beltrama, will be presenting “Can a decent student get into Harvard? A study on scalar implicature and gradable adjectives” at the upcoming XPRAG, an experimental pragmatics conference, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on June 2-4, 2011. Chris Kennedy and our alumna, Asli Ozyurek (joint PhD in Psych and Ling, 2000), are among the invited speakers to this conference as well. Have a blast in Barcelona!
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Staraki and Giannkidou to Chronos
Eleni Staraki will present “Attitude verbs and embedded tense in Greek” at CHRONOS, the 10th international conference on tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, which is going to be held at Aston University, Birmingham, on April 18 -20. Anastasia Giannakidou will also be presenting “Polarity indefinites in modal contexts” at the same conference.
Martinovic to WCCFL
Martina Martinovic will be presenting “The Interaction of Animacy with Phonetic and Phonological Factors in Neostokavian” at WCCFL 29 at the University of Arizona on April 22-24, 2011. Our alum, Michael (Mitcho) Erlewine (BA/MA, 2007) will also be presenting “Share to Compare: the Mandarin bĭ Comparative” there as well. Yay to Chicagoans!
Bochnak to SULA
Ryan Bochnak will present “Managing vagueness, imprecision and loose talk in Washo: the case of šemu” at SULA on May 5-7 at the University of Manchester.
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.