Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Recent conference appearances
On Saturday, September 4, Chris Kennedy participated in a workshop in Stuttgart on Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic, which was held to honor Professor Hans Kamp on the occasion of his 70th birthday. His presentation was called “Vagueness and Imprecision: Meaning and Use”. On Saturday, September 11, Peter Klecha presented his paper “Optional and…
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New faces around the department
Beginning this quarter and through Winter, we’re pleased to have Yusuke Kubota (OSU, PhD 2010) join the department on a postdoctoral fellowship provided by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He will be working with Chris Kennedy, investigating aspectual composition in Japanese. For those who hang around the Karen Landahl Center, you’ll be…
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Baby linguists: coming soon
And now for some exciting, non-professional news: Postdoctoral scholar Itamar Francez reports from Ann Arbor (where he is spending the year) that he, his wife, Na’ama, and their daughter Alma are expecting a new baby in February … … and fourth-year PhD student Christina Weaver and her husband, Christopher are expecting their first child in…
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Last issue of BLING for the summer
BLING will go on hiatus for the summer. We will resume when the Fall quarter starts in September. Have a wonderful break, everyone!
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Job news: Debenport and Paz
Two recent alumni have recently been offered jobs for the upcoming academic year… … Erin Debenport (Linguistics ’09), who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and Alejandro Paz (Linguistics and Anthropology ’09), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto!…
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