Arum Kang‘s paper, ‘On Pluralizing Event: Plural Marking Event Pluralizer tul in Korean’, has been selected for presentation at JSM (Journées de Sémantique et Modélisation)’09. Congratulations!
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Kirby at Southeast Asian language conference
James Kirby represented Chicago linguistics last week at the UCLA-UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies in sunny Los Angeles. James’s paper, “Spectral cues to voice quality in Vietnamese” (abstract included here) was presented during a phonetics session of the Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia.
De-FENSE! De-FENSE!
We have just received word of two upcoming defenses:
Fang Liu will defend her dissertation on ‘Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: a Functional Approach’ on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Classics 312 (department lounge). A draft of Fang’s dissertation, including abstract, can be found here.
Meanwhile, Osamu Sawada will be defending his dissertation proposal on ‘Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers’ this Wednesday, February 11, at 12:00 p.m. in Classics 312.
Wish them luck!
Today: Ling Lunch in Landahl
Good news: there is such a thing as a free lunch. The first Ling Lunch of the quarter will take place today, February 9 at noon in the Karen Landahl Center. We will hear from Ryan Bochnak on “Promiscuous modification and the syntax-semantics interface,” and from Jasmin Urban on “A modal approach to open questions.”
This Ling Lunch will be conference-style, with two 20-minute talks with 10-minute Q&As. Both papers (along with several others from Chicago linguists) will be presented at BLS next weekend.
We hope to see many of you there.
Kennedy, McNabb among paper acceptances
“On the Extraction of Attributive Adjectives and Deletion in Palestinian Arabic Comparatives,” a paper by department chair Chris Kennedy and third-year Ph.D. student Yaron McNabb, has been accepted to two upcoming conferences:
- The 37th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (NACAL) meeting in Albuquerque, NM, to be held March 13-15, 2009
- The 23rd Arabic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, to be held April 3-5, 2009
In addition, a paper by April Lynn Grotberg, “Prosodic override of a differential object marking system,” was accepted to NACAL as well. NELC/Linguistics joint-Ph.D. student Charles Otte III will also be presenting at NACAL. Congratulations, all!